Mr. Glyn on the various Classes of Population in Bareilly. 469 



Total Hindu population 40,205 



Total Mahomedan population 25,585 



Total Mahomedan and Hindu population in the town of 7 ~ 



Bareilly j ^5.790 



Add Christians 5 



Grand total of inhabitants 65,795 



Number of wells in the town of Bareilly, 640 : — 



Made of brick 5gy 



Earthen wells y3 



640 

 Of this number about 150 are out of repair, old and disused. 



Principal Mahomedan Families not employed in retail Trade or Handicraft. 



No. of Families. 



Sayyids (claiming descent from the Prophet) 26? 



Sheikhs (of Arab descent) (523 



Moghuls , Igy 



Afghans (or Rohillas from Cabul) ^^q 



Kunbohs (a mixed race, Mahomedans, but having Hindu 

 blood in their veins, looked down upon with contempt by 

 other Mahomedan tribes) ; 51 



Total 1,964 



The Mahomedan families here enumerated include the nobility and 

 gentry living upon land-rents or pensions; priests, learned doctors, pre- 

 ceptors or students ; persons employed in pubhc offices : many are officers 

 in the army; a few are merchants; and many of the poorer famihes serve as 

 private servants and as soldiers. 



In this, the more respectable part of the Mahomedan population, there 

 are many very disaffected to the British Government. In addition to the 

 loss of power, and dechne of wealth, honour, and patronage, incident to the 

 rise of British dominion on the ruin of Mahomedan sovereignty, the differ- 

 ence of religion between the actual sovereign and the subject is a powerful 



