TRANSACTIONS OF THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF BOMBA Y. WITH ENGRAVINGS. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1823. 0901 ADVERTISEMENT. IN laying before the Public this Volume of the Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, it seems unnecessary to make any remarks on the Papers inserted in it, except on the two containing the accounts of Lony and Jambusir; which, though apparently descriptive merely of a small village in the Deccan, and a small district in Guzerat, contain in fact remarks which are, with a few obvious exceptions, applicable to the whole of those provinces. The Gentlemen who favoured the Society with these Papers were placed in situations the best adapted for acquiring information on every point connected with the domestic manners, agriculture, and interior government of the people; and they have judiciously been of opinion, that their description of these subjects would be rendered more graphic and precise by confining to a single township and district the result of their more extended observations. But the habits and mode of living, the system of agriculture and produce of lands, the casts, and institutions civil and religious, the public and private taxes, and that village government which has always effectually diminished in India the evils of arbitrary power, as exemplified in the township of Lony and district of Jambusir, will be found to prevail equally in the whole of the Deccan and of Guzerat. The varieties, however, in the soil and the circumstances of the inhabitants, and the changes which have taken place in the original population, institutions, and government, appear to be more considerable in Guzerat than in the Deccan. (RECAP) .A832 3 V 484075 |