OF BURDWAN. 



in this paper are fituated in various parts of the di drifts of Burdwan, 

 Hughli, Midnapur, Birbhum, and the Jungle Mehats. They differ in 

 their fize, opulence, and other circumftances ; feme of them are market 

 towns or places of eftablifhed manufa6tures, fome are principally inha- 

 bited by Hindus and others by Mahomedans, fome are heavily affeffed, 

 others again are nearly rent free. 



Under thefe circumftances an accurate average of the proportion of 

 inhabitants to each dwelling throughout the diftri6l of Burdwan, may 

 be deduced from the annexed abftracl:, and as there exifts no very ma- 

 terial difference in the (late of fociety, the fame average may probably 

 be confidered to be generally applicable throughout Bengal, 



It is fcarcely neceffary to obferve that many dwellings, efpecially 

 thofe of the more opulent claffes of inhabitants, include feveral diftincl 

 buildings, huts, or out-offices within one enclofure; and frequently 

 contain diftinci families of feveral brothers or other near relations. A 

 dwelling of this defcription whatever may be the number of buildings 

 included in it, is intentionally confidered and rated as one dwelling both 

 in this ftatement and in that marked No. 2, exhibiting the total number 

 of dwelling houfes in the diftricl: of Burdwan. With reference to 

 thefe circumftances, the proportion of ^ inhabitants to a houfe 

 refulting from the general average of the paper marked No. 1, appears 

 fmaller than might have been reafonably expecled, and is in facl lefs ; 

 than the average proportion of inhabitants to each houfe in England. 



The number of males appears from the ftatement to be fomewhat 

 greater than that of the females being 82,285 of the former, to 81,149 of 

 the latter. The population returns of other countries generally exhi- 

 bit a larger number of females than of males; in England however, i£ 



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