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Rh humid current from June to August, but occasionally in September and almost entirely in October and November it accompanies the course of storms coming up from the Bay of Bengal. The wet season is hence considerably longer than in the Konkan and usually lasts until the middle of November. As the rainfall in the large area of the west Deccan is less than 30 inches "the dry zone of the division is very liable to drought and famine."

These observations describe exactly the geological and meteorological differences between the western and eastern halves of the Nizam's Dominions.

The division to the north-west is a trappean or black cotton soil country — a land of wheat and cotton, while the division to the south-east is a granitic region — a land of tanks and rice.

"These differences of physical nature are associated," says the Census, "with social, economic, and linguistic differences in the two natural divisions of the State, which are designated as Marathwara and Telingana, owing to Marathi and Telegu being the principal languages spoken in these two tracts respectively."