476 CENSUS OF THE POPULATION 



6. The proportion of children to adults, as might be expected, is 

 much smaller in the City than in the villages around Secrole ; where the 

 ratio of one to two and a quarter, is closely in accordance with Mr. Bayley's 

 statements. 



The Register is capable of affording other information which I 

 have not yet found leisure to extract. One of principal curiosity would 

 be the relative number of Hindii and Mohammedan inhabitants. The omis- 

 sion, however, is of less consequence, because another distinct method of 

 obtaining this branch of information was adopted, which, though not capa- 

 ble of the same degree of accuracy, may be assumed as tolerably correct in 

 relative numbers, while it forms a collateral check upon the Census itself. 



The Hindus are divided by the circumstances of their castes, and 

 of such trades and professions as are of a similar exclusive character, 

 into a number of distinct corporations, united among themselves under a 

 headman, who is variously entitled, as Choudri, Kotwal, Mahant, Jatti, 

 Dulpati, &c. Many of the Muselman trades are similarly constituted. 

 Upon many occasions of festivity, the whole of a community is assembled 

 together ; at other times apportionate presents are obliged to be distribut- 

 ed to every adult member of the clan. Lists of their clansmen, therefore, 

 are commonly to be met with among the choudris, to which access is 

 easily obtainable. Of the different sects of Brahmans, who hold so 

 conspicuous a place in the population of the Holy City, accurate catalogues 

 are procurable from the D&naclhyaksh, or almoners of native princes, or 

 from the pundits and priests. Thus, a list of eighty-four different sects of 

 Gujrati Brahmans was obtained from Ratanji Panda, a respectable 

 native, who had several times been employed in distributing largess for 

 opulent visitors on their pilgrimage to Kasi. The number of individual 

 members in these was afterwards ascertained from the leading man of 

 each sect. 



