POPULATION MILITARY FORCE. 291 



Square Miles. Population. 



Presidency of Bengal,. .• 220,312 69,710,071 



Districts the population of which is doubtful, . . . 85,700 



Madras, 141,9234 13,508,535 



Bombay, 59,438i 6,251,546 



Districts the population of which is doubtful, . . . 5,550 



512,923$ 89,470,152 



The population of the doubtful districts, being situated 

 on the Nerbudda in Berar and Concan, is probably not 

 large ; so that the whole will not much exceed ninety mil- 

 lions. The territory of the allied or protected, that is the 

 subject states, is estimated at 614,610 square miles; their 

 population, however, is not supposed nearly equal to that 

 of the territories under the immediate government of the 

 company. Mr. Hamilton, in the second edition of his 

 Gazeteer, estimates it as follows : — 



The Nizam, 10,000,000 



The Nagpoor Rajah, 3,000,000 



TheKingofOude, 3,000,000 



The Guickwar, 2,000,000 



The Satarah Rajah, 1,500,000 



The Mysore Rajah, 3,000,000 



Travancore and Cochin, 1,000,000 



Kotah, Boondee, and Bopaul, 1 ,500,000 



Rajpoot and other petty states, 15,000,OCO 



40,000,000 



The same gentleman makes the following conjecture as 

 to the states that still remain independent : — 



Sindia 4,000,000 



I Lahore, Rajah Rungeet Singh 3,000,000 



Sinde,... 1,000,000 



Nepaul 2,000,000 



Cashmere, and other districts belonging to the King ) y qqq qqq 

 ofCabul, ; S ' ' 



11,000,000 



This would give for the whole of India a population of up- 

 wards of 140 millions. 



In the government administered by the company the most 

 striking feature is that military force by which their exten- 

 sive dominion was originally acquired, and is still held in 



