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INDIA. 



CENSUS OF mO-(Continuecr). 



The true value of property is $2,121,680,579 ; 

 public debt, county, town, city, etc., $37,300,- 

 932 ; value of farm productions, including bet- 

 terments and additions to stock, $210,860,585 ; 

 pounds of wool produced, 5,739,249 ; 59,494 

 males, and 74,079 females, ten years old and 

 over, cannot write, of whom 40,801 are males 

 twenty-one years old and over. 



INDIA, BRITISH, a dependency of Great 

 Britain in Asia. The following information 

 concerning its area and population is given by 

 the statistical department of the India Office, 

 in the statistical tables relating to the colonial 

 and other possessions of the United Kingdom, 

 part xiv., 1869 (London, 1871) : 



As regards nationality and religion, the pop- 

 ulation of British India is divided about as 

 follows : 



Hindoos 113,000,000 



Mohammedans 25,000,000 



Non-Indian Nations 12,000,000 



Buddhists 4,000,000 



Asiatic Christians 1,111,678 



European Christians 156,119 



According to the census of 1861, there lived 

 in British India 125,945 English, 84,083 of 

 whom belonged to the Indian Army. The 

 Eurasians, the offspring of Europeans and 

 Hindoos, are estimated at about 90,000, the 

 Parsees at 80,000, the Jews at 10,000. The 

 population of the chief towns is as follows : 



Calcutta 616,249 



Bombay 816,562 



Madras 427,771 



Lucknow 300,000 



Patna 284,132 



Benares 200,000 



Hyderabad 200,000 



Delhi 152,406 



Foudpoor 150,000 



Moorshedabad 146,963 



Bangalore 140,000 



Baroda 140,000 



Ahmedabad 130,000 



Agra 125,262 



Bareilly 111,332 



Nagpoor 111,231 



Oawnpoor 108,796 



Bhurtpoor 100,000 



Dhar 100,000 



Fyzabad 100,000 



For 1870 the number and tonnage of vessels 

 entered at ports in British India from various 



countries was 13,346 vessels and 3,100,763 

 tons. The number and tonnage of all vessels 

 cleared in British India, during the same year, 

 was 14,677 vessels and 3,173,787 tons. The 

 value of the imports from foreign countries 

 (United Kingdom included) into British India, 

 for the year 1870, was: merchandise, $164,- 

 012,504; treasure, $69,468,185; total, $233,- 

 480,689 ; the United Kingdom contributing 

 nearly half the total. 



In the latter months of 1871 the English 

 Government of India undertook, for the second 

 time, an expedition against the Looshai. The 

 Looshai country is in India, lying north of the, 

 British province of Chittagong, southwest of 

 the protected state of Munnipoor, south of the 

 tea-district portion of British Cachar, and due 

 west of the protected state of Tiperah. A line 

 due east from Calcutta, three hundred miles 

 distant, strikes the southeastern angle of the 

 district in question. This tract of country is 

 about sixty miles broad at the widest part, and 

 one hundred and thirty-five miles long. It is 

 hilly and densely covered with jungle, trav- 

 ersed by numerous streams, and only sparsely 



