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INDIA, BRITISH. 



INDIANA. 



Dr. G. Smith, in the work, "The Native 

 Christians of India as a Community and a 

 Church," reprinted from the British and 

 Foreign Evangelical Review (1871), estimates 

 the aggregate population of India at 212,850,- 

 000, of whom 100,000,000 are Hindoos; 2,500,- 

 000 Sikhs; Buddhists and Fains, 5,000,000; 

 Mohammedans, 30,000,000 ; aborigines and 

 outcasts, 14,000,000 ; Parsees, 85,000,000 ; 

 Jews, 15,000; Christians, 1,250,000; Protes- 

 tants, 350,000; Catholics, 760,000; Syrians, 

 135,000 ; Armenians and Greeks, 5,000.* 



The public debt in March, 1871, amounted 

 to 111,542,208, the interest on which was 

 5,210,175. 



The imports and exports, from 1869 to 1871, 

 were: 



The total numbers and tonnage of all vessels 

 entered at ports in British India from various 

 countries were 13,843 vessels, freighted with 

 2,981,854 tons. The total number and tonnage 

 of all vessels cleared in British India, during 

 the same year, were 14,243 vessels, with 3,467,- 

 485 tons, giving a total of 28,086 vessels, and 

 6,429,329 tons. 



The total length of railroads, on December 

 31, 1871, was 5,089 miles. The aggregate 

 amount expended by the companies on the 

 lines undertaken by them was about 93,000,- 

 000 ; the gross receipts during the year 5,- 

 965,671, the amount paid by the Government 

 for guaranteed interest being in excess of the 

 net receipts. The number of post-offices and 

 receiving-houses, in 1871, was nearly 5,000; 

 the number of letters and newspapers sent 

 through the post-office, 84,562,634; the rev- 

 enue, 908,372. The number of miles of Gov- 

 ernment telegraph-lines, in 1871, was 14,014; 

 the number of offices, 205. The number of 

 governmental and aided colleges and schools, 

 in 1871, was 25,147, and the number of pupils 

 attending them 799,622. 



The "Annual Report of the Loodiana Mission " 

 gives the following account of some Gooroos, 

 whom the writer, a missionary, has visited : 



During a journey which extended thirty miles to 

 the southward of Loodiana we met at the town of 

 Rampoor with a peculiar company of Sikhs, who pro- 

 fess to believe in the New Testament as a Divine 

 revelation, and look upon Christ as the immaculate 

 incarnation of the Deity. Their Gooroo, or teacher, 

 seems t^ think, or at least he teaches his followers, 

 that Christ is to be revealed from heaven very soon, 

 according to Matthew xxiv. and xxv., and Revela- 

 tions xix.-xxii. ; but that Christ will be revealed 

 in his own (the Gooroo's) person ! This sect is en- 

 tirely separate from the other Hindoo sects, and is 

 regarded as a sort of Christian sect by the people 

 around them. They are increasing in numbers, and 

 the Gooroo may yet acquire a considerable number 

 of followers. They profess to observe the Sabbath, 

 to pray to God, and to disregard caste ties. In re- 



* For the religions statistics of India proper, see AN- 

 NUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1871. 



gard to caste, it seems pretty clear that the Gooroo 

 would gladly break otf from the system, and that lie 

 tries to leacl his followers to do so, but, that he has 

 succeeded in accomplishing his purpose, may be 

 doubted. On one occasion two of his disciples c;ime 

 to Loodiana, and, while there, ate and smoked with 

 Christians, because they had been told to do so by 

 the Gooroo. 



The sect referred to above is said to be in 

 the territories of the Maharajah of Putteeala. 



From the last educational report of the prov- 

 ince of Oude it appears that a much greater 

 interest is shown in education by the Moham- 

 medans than by the Hindoos. The Moham- 

 medans in Oude are only one-tenth of the pop- 

 ulation, yet there are in the province 18,1)18 

 Mohammedan pupils, and only 40,355 Hindoos. 

 The officiating chief commissioner remarks 

 that enormous educational work remains to be 

 done, 95 out of every 100 boys "growing up 

 in ignorance." Of the school-masters, one- 

 fourth are Mohammedans. There are 81 girls' 

 schools, under Government, and 1,908 pupils, 

 of whom 1,072 are Mohammedans. The pupils 

 of the Zenana Agency have increased in the 

 year from 52 to 140, belonging to 90 families, 

 of whom 55 are Mohammedans. In Bengal, 

 on the contrary, the Mohammedans are quite 

 deficient in their interest for education. The 

 total number of "passed" students in the first 

 division were: Entrance, 619; first arts, 115; 

 B. A., 61. Of these the Mohammedans were : 

 Entrance, 15 ; first arts, 2. The total number 

 of students in all the divisions was : Entrance, 

 3,471; first arts, 899; B. A., 429. Of these 

 the Mohammedans had only Entrance, 132; 

 first arts, 11; B.A., 4. 



INDIANA. The Republican State Conven- 

 tion of Indiana was held at Indianapolis on 

 the 22d of February, to nominate candidates 

 for the State offices and for presidential elec- 

 tors, and to appoint delegates to the National 

 Convention to be held at Philadelphia in May. 

 The State ticket was ns follows: For Govern- 

 or, General Thomas M. Browne ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Leonidas M. Sexton ; Congressman 

 at large, Godlove S. Orth ; Secretary of State, 

 "W. W. Curry; Auditor of State, Colonel James 

 A. "Wildman ; Treasurer of State, Major John 

 D. Glover; Reporter of Supreme Court, Colo- 

 nel James B. Black ; Clerk of Supreme Court, 

 Charles Scholl ; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Benjamin "W. Smith ; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, James P. Denny. 



The important resolutions, out of eighteen 

 composing the platform, approve of the Ivu- 

 klux Act; express gratitude to the soldiers 

 and sailors, and willingness to pay their pen- 

 sions; approve of the foreign policy of the 

 Government; approve of economy and of re- 

 duction of taxation; call for "incidental pro- 

 tection" for Indiana coal and iron; approve 

 of the financial policy of the Government: 

 call for the abolition of useless offices and per- 

 quisites, and a reduction of salaries; oppose 

 donations of public lands to railroads; demand 

 protection for immigrants against the capita- 



