Report on the Census taken on the 1st January 1855, of the Population of the Punjab Territories, Papers connected with the Administration of Mysore (Selections from the Records of the Government of India (Foreign Department), No. XI.)

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2Thinly-—peopled Districts.

3BENGAL. MADRAS, BOMBAY.

4PUNJAB. N. W. PROVINCES.

5Persons per square| Persons per sqtiare | Persons per equare | Persons per square | Persons per square

6mile. mile. : mile. mile. mile,

7Shabpoor, - - 74/Banda, - - -247|/Monghyr, - - 298/Cananore,- - - 149/Tannah, - - - 150

8Jhung, - - - 44/Mirzapoor, - - 214|Backergunge, -193/Madun, - - - 120|Ahmedabad,- - 149

9pockaty - - 74/Humeerpoor, - 245|Bancoorah, - - 101|Vellore, - - -128|Poonah, - - - 125

10bah aes - + 78)Hissar, - - -100/Sylhet, - - - 45/Guntoor, - - -119|Sholapoor, - - 135

11D i po se + 50 Bhagulpoor,- - 28|Masulipatam, - 110] Ahmednugger, - 100

12ehra Ghazee 59 Cuddapah, - - 109|Kandeish, - - 83

13Bene Bellary, - - - 101

14Kohat, “- = - %5|

15arp nn ee ee a eS ct

16The Punjab indeed can show several Districts that may vie with the

17most populous countries of England, Departments of France, or Province

18of Lombardy. But it has many Districts with an unusually thin popu-

19lation. It possesses no tracts to be compared with the most populous

20Districts of the North-Western Provinces, and probably not with those of

21Bengal, if the population of the latter were to be accurately known.

22There appear however to be no Districts in the Bombay Presidency, and

23‘only one in the Madras Presidency, equally populous with the best Dis-

24izicts of the Punjab. The average extent, population, and revenue of a

25‘District in the Punjab, as compared with Districts in the North-Western -

26Provinces and in Bengal, Madras and Bombay, may be thus seen :—

27Average of Average of | AveragcofLand

28Square Miles |Population per| Revenue per

29per District. District. District.

30Rupees.

31Punjab, ........, eeaanunme ‘ 8,023 471,030 6,30,037

32North-Western Provinces,.... 2,824 976,511 13,11,432

33Bengal, ..... SVewlb sae ate eet 3,518 1,095,940 10,3],200

34Madras, «+++... eeceee avecs 6,458 1,102,628 16,56,875

35Bombay, --+++essseeeeee sae 4,440 693,502 14,658,510

3620. It will be observed that there are nearly 26,210 villages in these

37Territories. ‘The term “village” is not quite equivalent io the word

38«« mouzab,” which is used in the Statements, but it is nearly so. The

39average number of persons to a village is 440, which is slightly in excess