APPENDICES. I REPRODUCE the following Tables exactly as they have been presented to Parliament. Where they differ in any detail APPENDIX I.-AREA, VILLAGES, HOUSES, AND POPULATION IN BRITISH INDIA IN 1871. 1 In calculating the averages for Bengal, the area of the Sundarbans is excluded. 2 The averages for Assam are only calculated on the figures for the Districts in which the number of houses or villages was reckoned. 3 Aden and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are excluded from all the statements, as not, geographically speaking, being in British India. APPENDIX II.-TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN BRITISH INDIA, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO POPULATION, IN 1871. PROVINCES. NUMBER OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES Having | Having Having Having Having Having Having 2000 to 3000 to 5000 to 10,000 to 15,000 to 20,000 to above 3000 In- 5000 In- 10,000 In- 15,000 In-20,000 In-50,000 In-50,000 Inhabitants. habitants. habitants. habitants. habitants habitants. habitants. habitants. habitants habitants. habitants' Having less than 200 In Having 200 to 500 In Having 500 to 1000 In Having 2000 In 1000 to 152 I I 14 3 2 ... 2 945 24,784 Punjab, 15,735 10,928 5,528 2,460 656 286 35,740 Central Provinces, 18,973 9,243 2,545 581 119 55 31,555 483 1 In this statement the cities of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay are each reckoned as one town. Temporarily under British administration. N.B.-This Table, No. II., is taken from the Parliamentary Statistical Extract relating to British India, 1879. APPENDIX III.-CULTIVABLE, UNCULTIVABLE, AND CULTIVATED LAND IN PROVINCES FOR WHICH RETURNS EXIST. N.II.-Thig Table, No. III, is taken from the Abstract of the Census of 1871 72 presented to Parliament. 27,067 122 2,000 35,117 103,486 833 88,556 2,106 427,154 BOTH SEXES. APPENDIX IV.-POPULATION OF BRITISH INDIA, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SEX AND AGE, IN 1871. Sex and GRAND Age un- 28,641 65,813 94,454 26,440 47,418 British Burma, 505,986 929,532 826, 181 1 Due to the exclusion of the population of Angul and Banki, two lapsed estates in Cuttack, 127,800; and the inclusion of the population of Saraikalá and Kharsawán, 92,627, which should be treated as Native States. 2 Europeans not included in the Census. 3 In Berar, the line distinguishing children from adults was drawn at the age of 13. The population is now estimated to be less by 5069 than that recorded in the Census of 1867. Part of the population of the Jáipur Zamíndári omitted from the Census Report. N.B.-This Table, No. IV., is taken from the Parliamentary Statistical Abstract relating to British India, 1879. ... 1,435,518 485,449 5,808,607 9,659,122 254,577 15,722,306 5,584.364 9,779,260 195,247 15,558,871 11,392,971 19.438,382 449,824 391,436 431,672,613 3,129,892 5,431,697 8,561,589 2,798,292 4,989,325 7,787,617 5,928, 184| 10,421,022 73,858 55,081 1,311,630 991,435 113,231 1,755,713 168,312 2,747, 148 ... ... 16,349,206 35,787,564 62,002,461 265,356 98,055,381 31, 182, 200 61,197,561 201, 125 92,580,886 66,969,764 123,200,022 466,481 458,020 191,096,603 APPENDIX V.-POPULATION OF British India, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO CASTE AND NATIONALITY, IN 1871. HINDOOS AND PERSONS OF HINDU ORIGIN. 14,330 223,269 Caste castes, or Native Tribes, or unspe- not recog- Chris- Semi-Hincified. nising tians. duized Ab 662,946 7,655,116 136,073 Total. 47,828 11,116,883 40,748,268 1,293 1,490,888 2,932,772 7,648 36,190 2,675 377,674 26,573,250 407,939 4,674 1,669,835 Caste. 650,477 22,067 56,595 233,245 90,490 9.942.433 7,9€2,398 301,379 ...h 163,059 2,075,620 89,067 4,838,806 42,516 156,586 2,628,073 4,782,757 490,299 29,361,139 144,293 11,791,878 78,582 18,741 711,702 13,403,675 g The numbers given under each description exceed the total population by 11. There are 903 Christians in Berar, but their nationality is not stated. i Of these, 1,583,792 are Burmese proper. These are Hindus only, excluding Karengs, etc.; the total number of Native Christians in British Burma is elsewhere stated to be 34.310. N.B.-This Table, No. V., is taken from the Abstract of the Census of 1871-72 presented to Parliament. |