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XXV. Enumeration of the various Classes of Population, and of Trades 

 and Handicrafts, in the toxcn of Bareilly in RoMlkhand, formerly the 

 capital of the Rohilla Government. By Robert Thomas JohnGlyk, Esq., 

 M.R.A.S. 



Read March IS, 1826. 



The degree of civilization attained by a nation may, in a great measure, 

 be estimated by the progress which it lias made in those useful arts, trades, 

 and employments, by means of which the necessaries, conveniencies, and 

 luxuries of life are formed, collected, and distributed. In order to judge of 

 the degree of this advancement, perhaps no better criterion need be sought 

 than observing the divisions and subdivisions found to exist in its trades, 

 manufactures, and other callings. By comparing these with the state of 

 manufactures, trade, and commerce of other nations, a tolerably correct 

 notion may be formed of the point which such people has actually attained 

 in the scale of social refinement. Under this impression, I have considered 

 that it might not be unacceptable to the Royal Asiatic Society to receive a 

 statement of the various trades, manufactures, and other occupations existing 

 in a principal town of Hindustan, and of the designations and estimated 

 numbers of the castes and tribes, Hindu and Mahomedan, residing therein. 

 Such statement appears calcidated, not only to convey a notion of tlie degree 

 of advancement in the useful arts as regards the urban inhabitants of the 

 upper provinces of Hindustan, but also to illustrate their wants, habits, and 

 peculiar usages, in relation to food, dress, amusements, and habitations. 



A residence of some years in an official capacity at the town of Bareilly, 

 has afforded me an opportunity of procuring the statement now submitted. 

 It was framed with a view to a more equal assessment of a tax or rate for 

 the support of watchmen. Considerable care and diligence was employed in 

 its formation ; and, to the best of my information and judgment, it is as ac- 

 curate as the nature of the undertaking, and the want of skill and practice 

 of the native officers in collecting and arranging statistical information, ad- 

 mits of. The errors and deficiencies in the due classification of castes, 

 trades and professions, which will be found in the following statement, must 



