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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 3.

1'OPULATIO.N 1s 1,355- The population at each Census in the last twenty years was (1881) 547,694, (189x) 674,649, and (1901) 705,725. The towns are NARAYANPET and MAHBUBNAGAR: P°pulation. More than 91 per cent. of its population are Hindus and over 8 per cent. Musalmāns. About 86 percent. speak Telugu, 6 per cent. Urda, and nearly 5 per cent. Kanarese. The following table gives the chief statistics of population in ī9o1 :- Z'āluk. DlahbGbnagar 2.;0 59 45,604 182 Jedcherla 2.34 79 38,961 166 Ibrāhimpatan 194 43 27,143 139 ]Zalvakurti 436 70 41,069 94 Amrābād 679 37 16,794 24 Nāgar ICarnGl 532 .. 127 67,990 127 Iakhtal . 447 .. īo7 64,208 143 Nārāyanpet 315 1 72 66,579 211 Koilkonda 384 91 45,572 118 Pargi 115 49 21,511 187 J23trs, BLc. 2,957 _ 61) 270,294 91 Distiict total 6,543 2 li 1353 705,725 107 m` C .^ N Number of v N tu 1905 the lbrahimpatan ldluk was transferred to Medak District, and 73 villages from Koilkonda, Narāyanpet, and Makhtal were made over to the adjoining tdluks of Gulbarga District. Koilkonda and jedcherla were merged in adjoining ldteaks, and Nārayanpet in Makhtal. The Pargi and Amrābād sub-tdluks have been raised to the status of tdluks. The District in its present form thus comprises six tdluks Mahbfibnagar, Kalvakurti, Amrābād, Nāgar Karnf l, Makhtal, and Pargi. The most numerous caste is that of the agricultural Kāpus, numbering 132,000, or about 19 per cent. of the total population. Next come the Chamārs or leather-workers, who number 93,000, or 13 per cent. The Brahmans number 87,6oo, or over 12 per cent. The Dhangars or shepherds follow with 74,6oo, or 1 i per cent. The Mahārs (village menials) and Komatis (traders) number 44,8oo and 21,000, or 6 and 3 per, cent. respectively. The Mahārs and Chamārs also work as field labourers. The population directly engaged: in agriculture is 205,000, or 29 per cent. of the total. There is an American Mi§lion at Mahbnbnagar town, which has established a school for low-chste children, the total staff and pupils numbering 163. The number of Christians in the District in 1901 was 359+ of whom 350 were natives.