Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-17
The Cens,,s Of ladi..

A correspondent Of the New York
World. writing from London, gives
some interesting facts relative to the
land Of the Jungle. The first regular
and complete census Of india which
has ever been taken was In 1871.
British India, intending the feudstory
States, was found to have an area OF
l, ,450,74 square miles, or about one
third the area Of the United States, and
its population was 23S,830 958, or
about six times as large as that Of the
United States. There are in India
vast tracts OF forest and waste land,
30 that the average density of popula-
tion in the inhabited districts is even
greater than would bo indicated by
the above figures. In Bengal the
average IL 397 persons to the square
mile for the Northwest provinces 43O
and for Dude 46S. The population
per square mile In Great Britain and
ireland, taken together, is only 265.
Therefore, II will be readily imagined
how crowded India IL. Calcutta, with
it's suburb, Howrah, which is to CAL
cutta Whist Brooklyn is to New York,
895, 600 Inhabitants; Bombay has 644,-
coo; Madras 3S8. and Lucknow
2S5, 900. British India has lac, 800 900
Hindoos and Sikhs, 40, 750, 600 Mahom-
etane, and 9,250O00 Budhists, Jains,
jews, Parsees, Brahmoes, Hill-men,
and Christians. OF the Christisns
there are not quite 9OO,000, and Of
these 100000 are Europeans. The
greater portion Of the Christians are
in Madras. There are not less than
twenty-three distinct languages spo.
ken in India, exclusive Of the almost
innumef4bie dialects OF the various
hill tribes. The variety Of castles
is bewfldering: In the Northwest
Provinces not less than 307 distinct.
i've castes of Hind0os are specified, and
In Bengal the number OF castles is
LOCO.
or British born subjects, excluding
the army and navy, there are only 3d.
600 resident in India and the Ameri-
cans number only $40. Taking the
population as . whole, the number Of
males is equal to the females, but
among the higher castles the females
are in minority circumstance due
to the fact that the practice Of female
infanticide still prevails to . great ex-
tent. In regard to the occupations of
the people, 1t appears that 1886, 900
persons are employed in the Govern.
ment service ; 629, 600 are engaged in
religious or charitable occupations, in
Guiding $40 Christian priests or min
isters; $1,000 are devotees and relig-
ious medioAnss; /; 10000 asfrologers; s.
wizards; 465 "devil-drivers !" $4,000
are engaged in education, literature
and ecience, of whom SIS are poets,
$4,000 lawyers: 75, 900 doctors: 2l8, 600
Fine artists" under which head are
included musicians, acrobats, wrest-
Iers, snake-charmers, and monkey
dancers and only one "speech- maker"
in all India. The agricnlturists num-
ber 37,5O0.OO0; 100000 are engaged
with elephants, camels, horses and
cattle, or get their living by hunting;
the commercial classes number 3,44l,.
100, and the artisans s,747,0OO. There
are only % gamblers, 5 pigeon-fyers,
49 spies, 36l thieves, sad 30rogues and
vagabonds-all these being the volun-
tary designations of the persons go
cassed. There are, however, no less
than 100000 persons whose occupa-
ton is described "a "guasts."