BARE!LL Y. 151895, or
I
141
upon the corresponding area
'54 per cent,
The
in 1872.
1881 numbered 548,010, and the female 482,926 ; proportion of males in total population, 53‘i6 per cent. Total area of
male population
i6i4'3 square miles;
District,
number 638'6 74'2
in
number of towns and
1928;
villages,
of occupied houses, 119,935; average density of population, number of villages per square mile, I'lq; houses per village,
inmates
per
house,
8'5.
Classified
according
to
religion,
Hindus numbered 790,309, or 76'6 per cent. Musalmans, 237,996, or 23'o per cent. Christians numbered 2393 Sikhs, 207 Buddhists, 15 and Parsis, 16. The agricultural population amounted
The principal castes are 715,785 persons, or 69 '43 per cent. Brahmans, 48,871; Rajputs, 35,340; Baniyas, returned as follows; to
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47,366; Chamars, 93,891; Kachhis, 72,312; Kahars, Kayasths, 17,349; and Kurmis, 190,560. The other Hindu castes include ^Barhai, 19,243; Teh', 18,117; Dhobi, 17,493; Bhangi, 16,119; Gadaria, 15,458; Nai, 14,844; Kori, 11,388; Kumbhar, Ahi'rs,
23,151;
48,751
—
10,295; 9312; Giijar, 7811; Sonar, 7160; Lohar, 5548; and Lodhi, 4746. The Musalmans are divided into 235,379 Sunnis and 2617 Shias. The Christians include 1527 Europeans, 125 Eurasians,
and 741
natives.
The
best cultivators in Bareilly are the Kurmis,
The District contained in 1881 towns with a population exceeding 5000 namely, Bareilly including Civil Station and Cantonment, 113,417; Aonla, 13,018; Faridpur, 5881 ; and Sirauli Pias, 6542. The 1928 villages are classified as follows With less than two hundred inhabitants, 528 ; from two to five hundred, 789 ; from five hundred to a thousand, 444 from one to two thousand, 132 ; with from two to three thousand, 25 from Lodhis, Murais, Chamars, and Jats.
four
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—
from five to ten thousand, 2 ; with upwards of ten thousand, 2. A few ruined forts are scattered over the face The houses in of the country, but none of any military strength. in larger towns they are generally tiled, villages have roofs of mud being often built of two storeys around an open courtyard in the north, along the Tarai, some of the houses are supported on pillars, as the water in that tract approaches very near the surface of the ground. Relics of early Aryan buildings are found near Ramnagar, identified three to five thousand, 6
by General Cunningham with Ahichhatra, the capital of the great Panchala Des, a kingdom which stretched from the Himalayas to the Chambal. Similar ruins are found at Galoria, Devala, Lilaur, and As regards occupation, the Census Report elsewhere in the District. of 1881 returns the male population under the six following main (i) Professional class, including civil and military, all Governclasses ment officials, and the learned professions, 10,577; (2) domestic servants, inn and lodging-house keepers, 3332 ; (3) commercial class, including merchants, traders, and carriers, 8537; (4) agricultural and
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