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 1LLA GE ECONOMICS 478 of the communications, markets, trade and fairs. The export trade in rice is reduced to one-half in the course of thirty years while the imports have consi- derably risen. The population has increased by 2.4 per cent, in 20 years being 58,460, in 1901. The birth and the death rates are 81.6 and 2.6 per mille respectively. strides. The Primary majority education has made great of the population are agriculturists and there are no manufactures, a large number, 4,648, being fishermen. Of a total agricultural population of 56.66 per cent, 84.68 per cent, cultivate themselves. Bent is a certain amount of of rice land is from sere. The occupied generally' in kind and there is rack-renting. The gross yield 18 to 22 /hnO of paddy per area at the introJuction of the survey was 82,098 acres assessed at Rs. 1,08,779 which stands now at 81,361 acres assessed at Rs. 1,05,924. stock is not satisfactory. Prices unaccountable way. The rice lands The agricultural have risen in an are leased at 4 to 5 times the assessment on the average. The revenue history of. the taluka is, on the whole, good. There is a tendency on the parts of Government servants to settle in Karwar on their retirement. This has enhanced the value of. land both for agricultural and non-sgricultufa! purposes, to an extravagant fisure, Rs. 600 being given for the best rice land.. The settlement officer concludes that when sll is said on the other side, the taluka shows signs of progress, and can stand an increase of assessment, amounting, after some regrouping, to 7.8 per cent. 'Here we have a record of facts and tendencies of the most absorbing interest, which ought to prove attractive to the economic thinker. I must, however, resist aud supplemented the temptation of would only state with facts commenting on them here that if the information is and figures as to cb