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2 namely, that all persons deriving any part of their subsistence from the
3 jand should be classed as agricultural, then not less than four-fifths of '
4 ‘the population would have been returned as agriculturists. Difficulty
5 has however always been experienced in enforcing attention to the
6 definition which appears to be seldom understood by the agency em-
7 ployed. If'there were greater uniformity in this respect, there would
8 be less fluctuation in the per-centages of the different Districts. In
9 several Districts, however, where the percentage is lowest, such as
10 Dahore (42-9-5 per centage of agriculture on total population), Umritsur
11 (42-13-0), Peshawur (48-0-0), there are cities with a large non-agricultural
12 population. Again, in the Cis and Trans-Sutlej States and the Lahore
13 Division, about half the Hindoos and half the Mahomedans are
14 agriculturists; but in the Jhelum, Mooltan, Leia and Peshawur
15 Divisions, where the Mahomedans preponderate, there the Maho-
16 medans are for the most part agricultural, and the Hindoos for the most
17 part non-agricultural. This may appear strange, but it is nevertheless in
18 accordance with fact, for in those Divisions the men of the soil are Maho-
19 medans and the Hindoos who frequent those localities are generally
20 traders, There the proud and dominant Mahomedans are willing to
21 accept the services of Hindoos as bankers and accountants, but would
22 not allow them to hold land. The average of cultivated land to each
23 agriculturist does not differ materially in the various Divisions, The mean
24 average, 1°79 acre, agrees nearly with that of the North-Western Provinces,
25 viz., 1:24, and proves that land is minutely sub-divided in some cases, and
26 in other cases that the means of the husbandmen are small.
27 24, It is to be regretted that a complete numbering of the Sikhs was
28 not effected together with the present Census, attention was not attracted
29 to this point at the time. In the Lahore Division, however, a detail of the
30 Sikhs was furnished, and is probably accurate. The relative numbers in
31 each District stand as follows :—
32 Total
33 Districts. | Sikhs, | Population.
34 Umritsur, - i Fag SESS th eee . 55, 709 691,683
35 Goordaspoor, 17771) 11ttttese+- 71,364 884,499
36 Goojranwalla, || 1777" tt ttteees- 24,746 , 787,417
37 Sealkote, Sa CON Ee aor 553383
38 Total, , Seems 641,789