470 CENSUS OF THE POPULATION 



V. 



CENSUS 



OP THE 



POPULATION OF THE CITY OF BENARES. 



By JAMES PRINSEP, Esq, f. r. s. 



In the year 1800, a Census of the Population of this City was taken by 

 Zulficar Ali, Kotwal, under the orders of the Resident, Mr. Deane, 

 which was published as an Appendix in Lord Valentia's Travels in 

 India. 



Benares was there stated to contain about thirty thousand houses and 

 six hundred thousand inhabitants; but very little examination of the data 

 upon which the latter assumption was made, would have been sufficient to 

 prove its total inaccuracy. The houses were classed according to their 

 height, and an assumed rate of population was assigned to each, thus — 



Brick Houses of 1 story were supposed to contain 15 persons. 



Ditto of 2 ditto 20 



Ditto of 3 ditto . 25 



Ditto of 4 ditto 40 



Ditto of 5 ditto 100 



Ditto of 6 ditto 2 150 



and the whole statement was of the same extravagant character. 



