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however, the population per square mile of cultivation be taken, the Per square mUe of parganas will rank thus— If,

cultivation. 1.

Hiadmpur

2. 3.

Bahraich

4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

870 souls per square mile 804 ditto 646 ditto 580 ditto ditto 570 ditto BMnga 532 Dharmanpur 507 ditto ditto Charda 463

Fakhrpur Nanpara Ikauna

of cultivation, ditto. ditto. ditto. ditto. ditto. ditto. ditto.

Hisampur, it will be noticed, keeps its place, but Bahraich goes up from 6th to 2nd, while the rice-growing parganas Bhinga and Charda fall to the bottom of the list.

Of the

the Hindus form 87'3 per cent, and the Musalmans 127 per cent, the Musalmans being found chiefly in Hisampur and Nanpara, the districts resthe Sayyads and the Pathins, and in the town of Bahraich

total population,

—

Hindus and Musalmans.

pectively, of

In

itself.

all

the northern parganas, with the exception of Nanpara, they

are very scarce indeed.

Muhammadan

population of 103,659, only 54,717, or 53 per cent, are agriculturists. Of the Hindus, on ^'^^ °°°' cuSurists'^^ I may remark here, howcent, of the whole body. ever, that the above returns, which are those of the census taken in 1869 A. D., under-state, I feel sure, the proportion of agriculturists. It is quite impossible in a district like Bahraich that one-third of its population can be non-cultivators. It is probable that many of the castes whose names indicate a non -agricultural calling have been entered in the census papers as non-cultivators without any enquiry as to whether they actually follow that calling, or whether they do not combine cultivation with it. According to settlement returns the proportion of culturists to non-culturists is nearly 5 to 2 instead of 4 to 2 only.
 * -^® °*^^ ^^^^' *^® agriculturists comprise 66 per

Out

of a total

That the population is well distributed throughout the district may be judged from the fact that, in addition to 1,930 inDistribution of pojjafcited villages, which give their names to their res^"

^°^'

pective demarcation circles, there are in the district in all a total of 8,245 separate clusters of homepossible, as 3 to every square mile of total area. In near as or, steads, Hisampur there are 6 such separate hamlets to every square mile in Fakhrpur there are 4 ; in Ikauna, Bhinga, Nanpara, and Charda, there

6,315 hamlets,

making



are 3

•

Out

and in Bahraich and Dharmanpur 2

only.

of the 2,021 hadbast circles in the old district, 91 ants, and of the remainder, 788 have

Size of villages.

-^^j^^g

.

ggg 272

ij^ve

have no inhabitunder 250 inhabover 250 and under 500 inhabitants.