The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-12-25
India

The visit of the Prince of Wales to In
dla turns the worli's attention to that
land Of mystery. and any details concern
! ing it are Of interest.
! The New York Worlds London CORES
pDndent appears TO have access to the In
dian office. and sends to this country the
freshest news get from that quarter.
A late letter gives the following from the
Indian census
The first regular and complete census Of
india which has ever been taken was in
1871. British India including the feuda-
tory states, was found to have an area of
|, 45O, 744 square miles, or about one-third
the area Of the United States, and its pop
ulation was 23S, $50, 95S or about SIX
times as large as chat OF the United States.
There are III India vast tracts of forest
and waste land, so that the average den
sity of population in the inhabited dis
trlcts Is even greater than would be indi-
Gated by the above figures. In Bengal
the average is 397 persons to the square
mile; for the Northwest provinces 430,
and for Dude 46S The population per
square mile IN Great Britain and Ireland,
taken together, is only 265. Therefore,
1t viii be readily imagine how crowded
India Is Calcutta, with it's suburb, How
rah. which is t. Calcutta what Brooklyn
is t. New York. has 800. .O0D inhabitants;
Bombay has GA, 900; Madras, 398, 600
aud Lucknow. pa. 900 British India has
lao. 500, 900; HIndoos and Sikhs, 40. 750,-
600; Mahometans and Buddists, jams.
Christians. 8. go 600 OF the Christians
there are not quite 900, 900, and Of these
25O, 900 are Europeans. The greater por-
ton of the Christians are in Madras.
There are not less than twenty three dis
tlnct languages spoken in India, exclusive
Of the almost innumerable dialects Of the
various hill tribes The variety Of castles
is bewlldering; in the Northwest Provin-
ces not less than 307 distinctive castles Of
Hlndoos are specified and III Bengal the
number Of castles is | 900.
OF British born subjects, excluding the
army and navy, there are only 0O, 900 resi-
dent in India; and the Americans mum
her only $40 Take the population as a
whole, the number Of males is about equal
to the females. but among the higher
castles the females are in the minority
circumstance due to the fact that the prac-
tice Of female infantlcide still prevails To
a great extent. In regard to the occupa-
ton Of the people, it appears that l., 236,
600 persons are employed in the Govern
ment service 629, 900 are engaged in re-
lIgioUs or charitable occupations, includ-
mg S49 Christian priests or ministers
80, 900 are devotees and religious mendi-
cants : 10. 900 astrologers wizards 465
devil-drivers > 1s9, 600 are engaged IN
education. literature and science, Uf whom
BIS are poets 33, 900 lawyers -, 900 doc
tors 2lS. 900 Fine arts. under which
head are included musicians acrobats,
wrestlers, snake charmers and monkey
dancers and only one speech maker IN
India. The agrlculturists number 81 500,
600 950, 600 are engaged with elephants,
camels. horses and cattle, or get their hv-
ing by hunting the commercial classes
number 3, AL 900, and the artisans 8, 747,
600. There are only p gamblers, 5 pig
con flyers. 40 spies, 36l thieves, and 80
rogues and vagabonds- all these being the
voluntary designations of the persons SO
classed. There are, however, no less than
l03, 900 persons whose occupation is de-
scribed as guests"