REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



519 



Table showing the areas of the different presidencies and provinces of British India, and 

 the areas of cultivated, cult arable, and unculturuble land, as far as could be ascertained^ 

 for the official year 1878-'/!). 



Presidency or province. 



Total area of 



each presi- 

 dency Orprov- 

 ince, as given 

 by surveyor 

 ' general. 



Area culti- 

 vated. 



"Waste 



Area cultiv- 

 able. 



lands. 



Area micul- 

 turable. 





Square miles. 



Square miles. 



Square miles. 



Square miles. 





a 32, 826 

 81,775 

 29 "'56 

 107! 010 

 84, 208 

 87, 470 

 17,711 

 29, 033 

 d 86, 439 

 / 73, 609 

 46, 599 



a 7, 531 



b 38. 070 

 b 12 930 

 3c! 656 

 22, 840 

 4,978 

 c 11, 162 

 c 7, 903 

 31,056 

 6c35, 053 

 4,183 



a 18, 823 

 13, 837 



6 3o2 

 36| 706 

 26, 755 

 37, 479 



2. 273 



5, 108 

 30, 764 



4, 022 

 (t) 



a 6, -172 

 29. 868 

 4 024 

 33[ G48 

 34, 613 

 45, 013 

 4, 276 

 16, 622 

 e 24,619 

 34, 534 

 (t) 





















670, 536 



212, 362 



182, 069 



233, 689 



*No information for this presidency. 

 1 No information. 



a Exclusive of the Garo and Noga Hilis. 



b Includes assessed lands only ; lands exempt from assessment are included in the fourth column of 

 figures. 



c Includes fallow, pasture, and meadow lands. 



d Exclusive of the Madi as district and of the area of the Zemindary or permanently settled lands, 

 comprising 53,498 square miles. 



e Includes cultivable and pasture lands in Malabar, which cannot be separately stated. 

 /Excluding the district or Kanara and the collectorate of Bombay. 



Table showing the area (actual or approximate) under different crops in each presidency or 

 province of British India, for the year 1878-79. 





Total culti- 

















vated area 







Other food 









Presidency or province. 



as given in 

 second col- 

 umn of pro- 

 ceding ta- 



Rice. 



Wheat. 



grains, 

 including 

 pulses. 



Sugar-cane. 



Cotton. 





ble.* 

















Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres 







4, 819, 840 



3, 110, 137 



21, 675 



378, 511 



65, 644 



40, 



015 



Northwestern Provinces. . 



24, 364, 800 



tt) 



4, 958, 200 



17, 308, 500 



it) 



C) 





Oudh 



8, 275, 200 



1, 099, 233 



1, 701, 143 



5, 164, 762 



140, 033 



40, 



680 





23, 459, 840 



623, 963 



6, 909, 702 



10. 438, 723 



412, 879 



785, 



428 





14, 617, 600 



3,918, 837 



3, 143, 302 



5, 546, 447 



93, 927 



724, 



306 





3, 185, 920 



2, 707, 755 



1, 608 



9, 947 



4, 265 



9, 



4:»c 





4, 143, 680 



27, 604 



612, 256 



2, 807, 343 



120, 031 



2, 207, 



889 





5, 057, 920 



643,119 



13, 853 



3, 265, 099 



16, 602 



21, 



043 





19, 877, 127 



5, 305, 804 



17, 090 



12, 696, 540 



59, 835 



1, 029, 



553 





22, 433, 208 



1, 174, 948 



1, 026, 179 



13, 224, 066 



40,315 



1, 378, 



622 



Sind 



2, 678, 061 



526, 485 



407, 399 



1, 393, 934 



3, 722 



59, 



745 



Total (excluding Bengal) 



135, 913, 196 



19, 137, 885 



18, 812, 407 



72, 233, 872 



957, 253 



6, 296, 



777 



*The figures for Madras, Bombay, and Sind, given in the first column of this table, when reduced 

 to square miles for comparison with the corresponding figures in the second column of the preceding 

 one, differ slightly from the latter ; but the largest difference — that in the case of Madras — amounts 

 only to 2 square miles and 7 acres. 



FNo information respecting this province. 



X Not separately reported. 



Note.— In addition to the crops embraced in the table there were oil seeds occupying an aggregate 

 area of 5,148,490 acres ; fiber-yielding plants, other than cotton, occupying 283.833 acres; indiuo, culti- 

 vated chiefly in Madras and the Punjab, occupying 277,793 acres; coffee and tea, occupying 387,568 acres ; 

 tobacco, occupying 399,164 acres, and miscellaneous crops, aggregating 3,187,209 acres. Tobacco ia 

 very generally cultivated, but most largely in Madras, Punjab, Bombay, and the central Provin ces. 

 Of the area reported as occupied with coffee and tea all but about 4,000 acres in Madras is occupied 

 with the former, the bulk of which is grown in Absam, Mysore, and Madras. It will be remembered 

 that there are no returns for Bengal. 



