The daily gazette., 1875-11-09
THE CENSUS OF fNDJA'
oNE-THIRD THE AREA OF THE UNITED
STATES WITH 2S7, 800, ,95S PEOPLE.

| STATES WITH 2S1 ,S3U, ,95S People
tFrom the resident cor. of the World)
LONDON, October 21.-The first reg.
uiar and complete census of India
| Wnlch mas ever been taken was in 1871.
BRUSH India, including the feudatory
states, was found to have an area OF
400. 134 square miles, or about one
third the area of the United States. and
its population was 238. .830, ,S58, or about
six times as large as that Of the United
States. There are in India vast tracts
of forest and waste land, so that the
average density of population in the
inhabited districts is greater even than
would be indicated by the above fig
ules. In Bengal the average is 397
persons to the square mile; for the
Nert n west provinces 430 and for Dude
4GS. The population per square mile
IN Great Britain and Ireland, taken
together, is only 265. Therefore, i:
will be readily imagined how crowded
India is. Calcutta, with its suburb
Howrah, which is to Calcutta what
Brooklyn is to New York, has s95, 600
Inhabitants; Bombay has 644. 900.
Madras, ,3SS, 600; and Lucknow, 2S5, 600.
British India has 140, 500, 900 Hindoos
and Sikhs, 40, $50, 900 Mahometans
9,2oO,OO Buddhists, Jains, Jews, Par.
sees, Brahmoes, Hill-men and Chris
tlans. OF the Christians there are not
quite 9OO,O COO, and of these 25O,OtOare
Europeans. The greater portion OF
the Christians are in Madras, There
are not less than twenty three distinct
languages spoken in India, exclusive
OF the almost innummerable dialects
OF the various hill tribes. The variety
OF castles Is bewildering, IN the North.
west Provinces not less than 307 dis.
tlnctlve castles of Hindoos are specified
and in Bengal the number of castles is
GOO. OF British born subjects. ex-
cluding the army and navy, there are
only 50, 900 resident in India; and the
Americans number only $40. Taking
the population as whole, the number
OF males is about equal to the females,
but among the higher castes the fe-
males are in minority-a circum-
stance due to the fact that the practice
OF female infanticide still prevails 10 a
great extent. In regard TO the occupa.
tions OF the people. 1t appears that
,236, 900 persons are employed in the
Government service; 629, 600 are en-.
gagged in religious or charitable occu-
pations, including $40 Christian priests
or ministers; 10000 are devotees and
religious mendicants; 10000 astrolo.
gers; . wizards; 465 "devil drivers"
1879, 900 are engaged in education, liter
ature and science, of whom $40 are
poets; $4,000 lawyers; $1,000 doctors,
2lS,OC0 Fine artists" under which
head are included musicians, acrobats.
wrestlers, snake chsrmers, and monkey
dancers; and only one speech maker"
in all India. The agriculturists num-
Der 37,50O, GOO; 1000 are engaged
with elephants, camels, horses, and
cattle, or get their living by hunting;
the commercial classes number 8. AL
600, and the artisans s,S47 900. There
are only % gamblers, 5pigeon flyers,
40 spies, 36l thieves, and 80 rogues and
vagabonds-all these being the volun-
tary designations of the persons so
classed There are, however, no less
than 1O3, 900 persons whose occupation
is described as guests"