 72.3% of workers describe their work as 'main work' (employment or earning for more than six months) while 27.7% were involved in marginal activity providing a livelihood for less than six months.Of 105,918 workers engaged in main work, 43,529 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 9,757 were agricultural workers or labourers.Deoli was established by the British in the year 1854; earlier it was a small village.