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| Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
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Receipts on account of Cotton, 4.c.
From each tanab (60 paces square representing about 5 beegahs) 7 tangas 30 puls.
Tangas.
36,000 12,500 10,000 13,000
on a small amount of tobacco
Total revenue under this head ...
Melons, 7 tungas 10 phools on each tanab .. Beda (fodder) 7 tungas 10 phools on each tanab Produce of gardens, 14 tungas 10 phools per tanab
In addition to the above, the value of one-fifth levied grown, and upon grass lands a small tax.
The grain is collected in kind, the remainder in cash. There is besides the tax on live-stock.
The transfers of land by sale.
four charaks of seed (of wheat) .
in it instead of by square measurement; it is usually estimated that one tanab will require
The value of the land is often assessed according to the amount of seed that may be sown
If 70 charaks of seed are required for the sowing of a piece of land, it will be termed a puddum ; similarly a half puddum and quarter puddum of land, &c., will be spoken of.
Goods of foreign manufacture were not observed in the Shumba Bazaar, with the exception of Russian chintzes.
4th January. I reached Ek-Shumba Bazaar, 10 miles from the last place : this is held at Atakchi in the Kanarik district.
The village has about 200 houses, and there are 14 permanent shops.
In the entire district of Kanarik there are 1,880 houses. On bazaar days stalls are open in Atakchi as follows :-
| 40 Purchasers of cotton cloths of local manufacture. 50 Ditto of cotton. 65 Dealers in spices, Russian chintzes, &c., tea and miscellaneous stores. 20 Sellers of hats. | 40 Tobacco sellers. 30 Snuff dealers. 40 Skein-silk sellers. 10 Numdah sellers. 20 Ready made chogas. 50 Prepared leather. | ||
| 20 | „ | of boots. | 4 Oil. |
| 4 | „ | of baskets. | 100 Provision shops, where bread and Ash |
| 12 Soad dealers. | are prepared. | ||
| 20 Carpenters and dealers in wooden articles. | 40 Sheep butchers. | ||
| 10 Iron- | 20 Beef butchers. | ||
smiths.
A large number of hawkers of all kinds in addition.
In one bazaar-day at this place as many as 500 sheep and 20 oxen are killed : the price of meat is 20 phools per jing for mutton; and 16 phools per jing for beef : the large expenditure of meat is accounted for by families purchasing their supply for an entire week during this cold. season.
About 15,000 people assemble here on bazaar-days. One thousand donkey loads of grain are disposed of.
The transactions on bazaar-days represent a trade equal to about double the amount of that done in the Shumba Bazaar.
DO-SHUMBA BAZAAR.
This is held at Peinab, abolit 10 miles distant from Atakchi; this is a village of about 350 houses, and there are 25 permanent shops; it is in the Kanarik district.
Ek-Shumba and Do-Shumba Bazaars are under the Dadkhwah of Kanarik, Mir Mahomed (Kûtchi.)
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