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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11, p. 203.

DA UR 203 for which cotton is imported. The cultivated area is 15,262 acres, or about five-eighths of an acre per head of population. Tenants culti- vate about one-third of this area and pay heavy rents in kind, two thirds of the gross produce being the usual amount. Daur used to be celebrated for its horses, but the breed is now extinct. Goats and sheep find good grazing in the neighbouring hills, despite their barren appearance. The system of irrigation is that common in the Afghan hills, being carried on by means of channels cut from the Tochi river and its tribu- tary torrents. These watercourses are so well designed that the culti- vated area in Daur proper is hardly capable of great extension, though flood-channels which would carry the fertilizing flood-waters of the Tochi to the higher lands are feasible, and will greatly improve the quality of a large area. The principal customers of the Dauris are the surrounding Wazir tribes, to whom the surplus produce of the valley is sold. It has no other trade. Daur is under the Political Agent, Northern Waziristan, who is assisted by a lahsilddr and three naib-lahsildk7s. The Indian Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, and also Regulations III and IV and VII of 1901, are in force in Daur; but as a rule Mu- hammadan law modified by local customs is administered. The prin- ciple underlying these customs is the usual Pathan claim of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth'; but every Dauri has his price, whereby his wounds or pride may be salved, and for most offences a fixed sum is laid down, by paying which an offender may pacify the party he has injured. In practice, however, the amount actually paid depends on the strength and influence of the opposing parties, and the weaker usually goes to the wall. As a rule, a Hindu or a woman counts as half a mail. Intention is not regarded, only the result, so that accidental homicide incurs all the penalties of murder. The blood-feud flourishes, and is regulated by a short and simple unwritten code. There is a regular tariff for bodily injuries, and theft is punished by a fine. Under the terms of their petition of 1895, the Dauris agreed to pay a tithe of the gross produce to the British Government. For eight years this tithe was commuted into a payment of Rs. 8,ooo, levied by means of a house tax; but in 1903 a revenue settlement of the valley was made, a record-of-rights being drawn up and the tithe assessed at Rs. 36,ooo. In addition, a shop and artisan tax of Rs. 1,500 is levied, raising the total revenue of the valley to Rs. 37,5oo. This assessment has been sanctioned for ten years from the autumn of 1903, with the proviso that if any considerable number of villages desire to pay in kind, they shall be permitted to do so.