BASIM. good reason shown.
187
During the rule of the Peshwa, extravagant
life-
Brahmans and Pandits, many of Avhom contrived get them transmitted to heirs. Rent rates the average rate for
made
grants were
to
—
to
land suited for cotton IS.
opium,
from were
IS.
—
6d
7s.
is is.
rice, 4s.
to 2s. per
day
per acre; for wheat land,
gram,
is.
The wage
6d.
is.
3d.
for jodr,
of skilled labour
is
Prices in 1880-81
of unskilled labour, 6d.
cotton, 2| sers per rupee, or 2J lbs. for a shilling ; gram, 36 sers ; jodr, 51 sers common rice, ii sers ; oil-seeds, 17 sers and tobacco, 2% sers. A plough bullock costs for clean
wheat, 35 sers a sheep,
The
4s.
1880-81 com-
agricultural stock of the District in
prised 280,098 cows and bullocks, 51,995 buffaloes, 195 horses, 7725 ponies, 1655 donkeys, 49,580 sheep and goats, 125 pigs, 140 camels,
6262
carts,
and 28,332 ploughs.
Manufactures and Trade.
— The
are coarse cotton cloth, blankets,
chief manufactures of the District
and a
little
exports are cotton and wheat, which go to
The
paper.
Bombay
principal
gums, dyes, and
produce are sent to Hingoli. There are four outposts in the which trade registration is undertaken, viz. at Rajgaon, Risod, Mulama, and Umarkhed these outposts are maintained at an annual cost of The value of imports registered in 1880-81, through these posts, amounted to ;!^ii5,658 ; exports, to ^54,280. forest
District at
The
chief trading
fairs are
towns are Basim and Umarkhed
the
principal
held at Risod, Sirpur, Malegaon, Pusad, Umarkhed, Talegaon,
and Negardas.
There
are
the
in
District
miles
293
of
made
road.
—
The total area assessed in 1881 was 1,263,034 which 1,150,991 were under cultivation, 112,943 cultivable, 180,628 grazing land, and 446,811 uncultivable waste. Sixty-three villages held under the Waste Land Rules, with an area of 147,717 acres, yield a revenue of ^875. The District is administered by a Deputy-Commissioner, with whom Administration.
acres, of
are associated assistants, Sub-divisions.
There
British rule.
transferred
to
European and Native.
Dakditi and robbery have is
one small receiving
the central jail at Akola
There are
much
jail,
3
decreased
revenue under
from which persons are
daily average of inmates,
expenditure per head of average strength, ;^8, 17s. Of the total number of convicts, 67 were Hindus, 24 Muhammadans. The 74‘i7
Muhammadans, who
are only as
i
to 18 of the
Hindu
population, are
The sanctioned strength of police in 4 of the convicts. 1880-81 was 67 officers and 324 men, giving an average of i policeman to every 7 '5 square miles of area. There were in 1880-81, 86 as
I
to
Government and aided
schools, with 2814 pupils
and a
central
depot, with two branches, one at Pusad, the other at Mangrul.
only municipality
is
Basim town
book
The
population within municipal limits.
