Connecticut western news., 1875-11-19
THE CENSUS OF INDIA. !.
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 The first regular and complete, census of India which has ever been. takenawas in 1871. British India, including the feudatory States, was found to have an area, of ], l,450, "A square miles, or about one-third the4area of the United States, and it's population was 238, ,830,- 958, or about six times as large as that of the United States. There are in In dia 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 figures. In Bengal the average isl 397, persons to the square mile for the Northwest provinces 430, and for Dude 468. The population per square mile in Great Britain and Ireland, taken to- gether, is only 265. Therefore, it will be readily imagined how crowded India is. Calcutta, with it's suburb, Howrah. which is to Calcutta what Brooklyn is. to New York, has 895, GOO inhabitants; ]; Bombay has 644 GOO; Madras, 398, ,0O0; and Lucknow 2e5, 1000. British India has 14O, 800, 900 .Hin|oos and LSikha, 40, 750, 600 Mahometans, and 9,250> 900 Buddhists, Jains, Jews, Parsees, Brah- noes, Hill-men and Christians Of the Christians there are not quite 900, ,00O, and of these -25O, 1000 are Europeans. The greater portion of the Christians are in Madras. There gre not less twenty-three distinct languages spoken in India, exclusive ot the almost, innu merable dialects of the rvarions hill tribes. The variety of castes is bewl :. dering; in the northwest provinces not less than 307 distinctive castes of Hin doos are specified, and in. Bengal the number of ,castes is 1000. Of British born subjects, excluding the army and navy, there are only 5000 resident in India; and the Americans number only $40. Taking the population as e whole, the number of males is about equal to the females, but among the higher castes the females are in 8 min orityLa circumstance due to the fact that the practice of female infanticide still pre- vails to great extent. In regard to the occupations of the people, it appears that ], ,236, 900 persons are employed in the government service ;, 62O, 900 are en- gagged in religious or charitable occupa- tions, including 849 Christian priests or ministers; 30,0O0 are devotees and re- igious mendicants; 10000 astrologers; five wizards; 465 "devil-driyers;" 189,- 900 are engaged in education, literature and science, of whom 518 are poets; 33, 900 lawyers; 75,0O0 doctors; 218, GOO "Fine artists" under which head are in cluded musicians, acrobats, wrestlers, snake-charmersa and monkey dancers; and only one speech-maker' in all India. The agriculturists number 37,500, GOO; 95O,0OO are engaged with elephants, camels, horses and cattle, or get their living by hunting; the commercial classes number 3.441, 1000, and the artisans n STAY, 900. There are: only tyenty,two gamblers ee1 five pigeo17aIyers, forty-nins vagabonds- these heinz the voluntary designations of the persons so classed. There are, however, no less than 1O3, ,O0O persons whose occupation is described as "Quests,' .,