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2 cities of Dehra Ismael Khan and Dehra Ghazee Khan, containing 15,899
3 and 21,097 inhabitants, respectively, are more populous than might have
4 been supposed, for their situation in the wild Trans-Indus Territory ;
5 and if the highway of the Indus should become open to commerce, these
6 two places will flourish.
7 21. In precise conformity with the Census of the North-Western
8 Provinces the population has been classified into its two great Divisions,
9 namely, Hindoo and Mahomedan, agricultural and non-agricultural.
10 No detail of castes and tribes has been attempted on the present occa-
11 sion, such a classification would however possess much ethnological in-
12 terest, and may be effected together with the next Census, The sub-
13 division was however usually given in the Settlement Census Returns,
14 and an abstract of castes, &c., taken from these returns, is appended for
15 the Districts wherein such information is available.
16 Pas ts are 5,352,874 of Hindoos only to, 7,364,974 of Mahome-
17 Such a preponderance of Mahomedans over Hindoos is probably
18 a to be found in any other Province of India. In the Eastern and
19 Central Districts, that is, in the Cis and Trans-Sutlej States and the
20 Lahore Divisions, that is, from the Jumna to the Chenab, Hindoos are in
21 excess, In many of these Districts it is to be remembered that thousands
22 belonging to Hindoo tribes, such as Jats and Rajpoots, were rendered
23 Mahomedan by the compulsory proselytism of the Mogul Emperors, and
24 though entered as Mahomedans, still retain marked traces of Hindoo
25 lineage. But from the Chenab to the Trans-Indus Frontier, and in the
26 North-Western and Southern Divisions, that is, in the Jhelum, Mooltan,
27 Leia, and Peshawur Divisions, the population is almost entirely Maho-
28 medan. In the North-Western Provinces, there are only four and a half
29 millions of Mahomedans to. twenty-five and three quarter millions of
30 Hindoos. In the Punjab, there are seven and one-third millions of Ma-
31 homedans to five and one-third millions of Hindoos. Inthe Punjab the
32 Mahomedans are as 1:37 to 1‘ of Hindoos, in the North-Western Provinces
33 they are only as 1: to 5-65,”
34 23, The proportion of agriculturists to total population i is 56 per cent.
35 The corresponding per-centage in the North-Western Provinces is 64.
36 The proportions in both cases should however be greater than that
37 actually shown. More than half the population is certainly agricultural.
38 It is probable that three-fourths subsist on agriculture, and, if the
39 returns had been strictly rendered according to the prescribed definition,