344 On the Population of Bengal. 



the produce to the quantify of land, every article must be 

 included in the computati -n, and for that purpose the grain 

 must be stated at its monev value, which we take from the 

 average of many inquiries, in which the cheapest and dearest 

 provinces have beeji considered. 



M.innds. 



13,00,00,000 of rice, wheat, and barley, at ■Rupees. 



12 annas - - _ , il,2.'j,00,000 



6,00,00,000 millet, &c. at 8 annas - 3,00,00,000 



9,00^00,000 pulse, at 10 annas - 5,6-2,50,000 



19,87,50,000 

 4,30,00,000 seed reserved - - 2,83,80,000 



22,71,30,000 

 Oil seeds . . - . 12,000,000 



Sugar, tobacco, cotton, Sec - - 70,000,000 



Sundries _ _ - - 20,000,000 



Gross produce of land - 329,130,000 



which is more than seven * rents, if the rents have been 

 well estimated at rupees 42,452,81 7j and a produce of 

 three rupees and a half a begah on the tillage, estimated at 

 94,777,797. In a subsequent inquiry we shall have occa- 

 sion to show this a very moderate produce in proportion to 

 the expense of husbandry. 



The speculations in which we have now indulged cannot 

 avail to determine accurately the population of these pro- 



• The gross payments of tbc fiusbandmen are greater; probably not 

 less than the fourth of the gross produce: which was considered under 

 the latter administration of the native government as the just due. An- 

 other occasion will occur of examining this subject more fully, and ex- 

 plaining; the appropriations of the gross collections The diiferencc, though 

 it break the consistency of the argument, is in fdvour of the moderation 

 of our estimate. It is explained by the circumstance of the ascertainment 

 before quoted, having been made in a district where the ;iet revenue bears 

 a very large proportion to the gross collections, and where the husband- 

 men are estimated on the rent.il to pay a seventh only. The net revenue 

 bears a less proportion to the gross revenue in most districts; and in these 

 the peasants pay mors than a fourth. Tliis docs not affect the computa- 

 tion ; for had wc used rnattrials obtained from districts where the gross 

 payments were greater in proportion to the net revenue, or had we in- 

 cluded all the payments not brought on tlie rental, the average payment 

 of each tenant w( uld be found proportionably higher. In some the hus- 

 bandmen pay more than a fourth of their gross produce ; in others they 

 nominally pay more than half. On the other hand, in frontier districts, 

 particularly on the citatcs held upon Ghativali tenure, they pay less than 

 a seventh. 



vinces. 



