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BANGALORE CITY AND CANTONMENT.
70
Population of Bangalore PH.
(i
88 t).
Cantonments.
Total.
52,696 8,688
56.197 20,833
108,893 29.521
I
12
13
Europeans,
2
4,096
Eurasians, Native converts.
6
650
8,129
4.098 2.417 8.779
932
16,498
17.430
62,317
93.540
155.857
Hindus,
.... ....
Muhammadans, Others, Christians
Total Christians,
Grand
total.
Manufactures and Trade.
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ISIost
city are represented in Bangalore.
2,41
of the trades characteristic of a large
In former years the production of
was a flourishing industry, confined to the Muhammadan section of the community, but it has now greatly declined owing to continued mortality among the worms. Silks of durable texture and brilliant patterns are still woven by patz'egdrs, and sold by weight at from Rs. 4 to Rs. 5 per told. The common country cotton cloth is raw
silk
made
in large quantities, the finer kinds with silk borders.
Bangalore
manufacture of carpets. The common drugget with reversible pattern, called janikhdnd, sells at from is. to 2s. 6d. per square yard ; the rugs and pile carpets (ratnd kambli) fetch from 8s. is
noted
for its
per square yard upwards.
The
carpets
made in the central jail, after demand even in the English
Persian and Turkish designs, are in great
Other specialties are the manufacture of gold and silver and of electro-plating and the tanning of leather. The handicrafts, stimulated by the presence of European civilisation, include printing, book-binding, lithography, photography, coach-building, and cabinet-making. A steam woollen factory has lately been started, and In is fairly successful. In both quarters of the town are busy markets. the pet, the public market is situated between the fort and the IMysore gate. But business is conducted everywhere amid the crowded thorougliThe fares, especially at open stalls along either side of the Doddapet. European shops are mostly in the cantonment bdzdr, in which also a commodious and well-kept market-place has recently been laid out. The Bangalore branch of the Madras Railway has its terminus in market. lace,
Bangalore. Its total length from the Jollarpet junction is 84 miles, of which 53 lie within the limits of the State of Mysore, with 3 stations exclusive of the terminus. There were in 1881 altogether 29 jointstock companies for banking or trade, registered in Bangalore city. The
