Knttroiruttion* 



The following brief summary of the leading facts, which are of general application to the Agri- 

 culture of these Provinces, is merely given in order to prevent unnecessary recapitulation in the 

 crop accounts, and the information which it contains has no pretensions to be considered very full or 

 in any way exhaustive. 



The total area of the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh is nearly 68 million acres, of which only 34^ 

 million acres are under cultivation. Of the uncultivated area, 15 million acres, or 44 per cent., are 

 returned as cultivable, and the remainder absolutely barren. Details of the area comprised within 

 each Revenue Division of the N.-W. Provinces and the Province of Oudh are given below : — 





Meerut 

 Division, 



Rohilkhand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allahabad 

 Division. 



Benares 

 Division. 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



Kumaun 

 Division. 



Oudh. 



Total. 





acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



Cultivated, 



44,39,680 



44,00,320 



40,36,928 



50,04,928 



64,22,144 



13,73,184 



5,06,752 



84,00,896 



3,45,84,832 



= per cent, on total, 



61.3 



63-2 



62-1 



56-9 



S4-7 



430 



6-3 



54-2 



SO'9 



Uncultivated bat cultivable, ... 



16,36,608 



19,09,056 



10,88,448 



20,30,272 



20,82,560 



11,94,496 



7,54,240 



43,18,336 



1,50,14,016 



= per cent, on total, 



22*6 



27-4 



1 6-8 



23-1 



17.8 



37-5 



9-5 



27.7 



22-1 



Uncultivable 



11,68,448 



6,55,680 



13,71,200 



17,61,984 



32,30,976 



6,21,824 



66,99,200 



27,98,336 



1,83,07,648 



= per cent, on total, 



i6-i 



9.4 



2I'I 



20'O 





'9S 



84.2 



18-1 



27-0 ' 



Total, 



72,44,736 



69,65,056 



64,96,576 



87,97,184 



1,17,35,680 



31,89,504 



79,60,192 



1,55,17,568 



6,79,06,496 



The large amount of uncultivable land in the Kumaun Division results from its including but 

 little flat country, and being almost entirely confined to the ranges of the Himalayas. 



The land revenue annually collected by Government amounts to Rs. 5,70,94,121, which is in- 

 creased by certain additional cesses to Rs. 6,57,35,362. This falls at the rate of Re. 1*9 per culti- 

 vated acre, or Re. 1*3 per cultivated and cultivable acre. The following table shows the revenue 

 Division by Division : — 





Meerut 

 Division. 



Rohilkhand 

 Division. 



Agra 

 Division. 



Allahabad 

 Division. 



Benares 

 Division. 



Jhansi 

 Division. 



Kumaun 

 Division. 



Oudh. 



Total. 





KS. 



BS. 



ES. 



RS. 



RS. 



BS. 



BS. 



BS. 



ES. 



Land revenue, 



80,30,773 



69,01,702 



84,32,385 



93,37,287 



81,94,375 



14,99,474 



5,16,254 



1,41,81,871 



5,70,94,121 



Additional cesses, 



14,14,434 



13,17,881 



14,19,056 



16,20,550 



15,07,543 



2,86,650 



56,321 



10,18,806 



86,41,241 



Total, 



94,45,207 



82,19,583 



98,51,441 



1,09,57,837 



97,01,918 



17,86,124 



5,72,575 



1,52,00,677 



6,57,35,362 



Revenue pet cultivated acre, ... 



2- 1 2 



1-86 



2.43 



2'l8 





I -30 



IM2 



I -80 



1-89 



The rental may be assumed to be double the revenue plus cesses ; its amount is not even ap- 

 proximately ascertainable, since a large proportion of the cultivators are also landholders, and hence 

 pay no actual rent. 



The total population of the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh as returned by the census of 1881 was 



2 



