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2 Maharajah of Cashmere and Jummoo. His Highness has been a Tri-
3 bituary of the British Government since 1846. No history or ‘descrip-
4 tion of these Native States need now be attempted: on the--present
5 occasion it will suffice to give such portions of their statistics as will
6 correspond with those of the Census. These statistics have been obtained
7 partly from ‘available records, and- partly from inquiry ‘made for the pre-
8 sent purpose. A general Statement, comprising the main results, is ap-
9 pended. Firstly, then, the Cis-Sutlej Sikh Principalities, the principal
10 of which is Puttfala, contain an area of more than 7,000 square miles;
11 a population of nearly two millions of souls, that is, about: 250 persons
12 to the square mile, and-yield a revenue of thirty-one lakhs per annum,
13 ‘or nearly one-third of a million pound sterling. The above statement of
14 area may be taken as quite correct, being obtained from the Revenue
15 Survey of all the Cis-Sutlej Territory effected between 1846 and 1851:
16 The Population Return is based on inquiry and tested by the averages
17 of surrounding British Territory. As the States are intermingled with,
18 “and encircled by British Territory, of which the population has been
19 ascertained by Census, the present Return:may be considered almost as
20 trustworthy as that of our. own Provinces. For the Revenue Return
21 the information furnished by the Chiefs themselves, and the records of
22 the Agency Office, are available. Secondly, in respect to the Hill States
23 round Simla, which are situated in a mountainous Himalayan region,
24 their superficial area cannot be properly known, but their geographi-
25 cal area can be accurately ascertained from the map supplied by the
26 Great Trigonometrical Survey Department. This may be safely set
27 down at 5,000 square miles. Population Returns have been specially ren-
28 dered by the Chiefs themselves. The aggregate of souls amounts to
29 432,643, or about half a million. The revenues have been ascertained
30 from the political records, and amount to Rupees 5,72,100 per annum,
31 or about five lakhs of Rupees, or £50,000 sterling. Thirdly, there are
32 the Trans-Sutlej Hill States and the Kupoorthulla State. The area of
33 Kupoorthulla having been ascertained by a Revenue Survey 38 quite
34 correct ; the Population Returns have been tested by the average of the
35 adjoining portions of the Jullundur Doab; the revenues have been fre-
36 quently determined hy inquiries on other occasions ; the statistics of this
37 State are therefore, for the most part, quite trustworthy. For the Hill
38 States the geographical area has been deduced from the Great Trigono-
39 metrical Survey Map. The Population Return has been tested by the