56 st STATISTICAL ACCOUNT 



police, and in the general admini ft ration of the extenfive territories 

 fubjedt to the Britijh government in India, 



3 This ftatement exhibits the total Hindu population of 26 vil- 

 lages in the di drift of Burdwan, the inhabitants are clafled under the 

 Beads of their refpedive calls or profeffions, and according to their ages ; 

 the males as being above or below 16 years of age, the females as above 

 or below 12 years of age; the villages, from which this abftracl was 

 formed, were fele&ed in preference to others as containing more than 

 the ufual proportion of Hindu inhabitants; the ftatement thews almoft 

 alltheclaflesand profeffions into which the Hindu population is generally 

 divided intheweftern parts of Bengal, but it cannot beeonfidered tofur- 

 nifh any accurate average of the proportions which the different clafles 

 bear to each other 1 it may be remarked that the proportion of females 

 to males is generally larger in the higher claffes, while in the lower 

 clafTes the males are more numerous than the females* 



No. 4. This ftatement has been prepared from accounts preferved 

 in a refpe&able Hindu family in Calcutta. The average is deduced from 

 the fum total annually expended in the purchafe of each article for the 

 ordinary confumption of that family, compared with the total quantity 

 of each article purchafed within each year* 



No. 5. I am indebted for this document to Mr. Cheap, the com- 

 mercial refident at Surul; it contains the current prices of coarfe and 

 fine rice, of fait, oil, ghee, molafles, and turmeric in the month of Pus? 

 during the laft 30 years at the town of SuruL 



"No. 6. The accuracy of this ftatement which was obligingly furnifh- 

 ed to. me by Mr. Erski.ne, a gentleman 1 eliding at Elambazdv* in. the: 



