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 KHE 227 642 340 856 Potters 200 420 469 208 860 119 162 120 185 171 Corn-grinders 198 Goldsmiths TOBACCO-sellera Saltpetre-qekere Panleaf-sellers Confcotioners, aweetmeat-sellers Blacksmiths 1,170 Butchers Glass bangle-bakers 405 Greengrocerg Labourer's 30,906 Fishmongers Beggars 3,077 Grain.parcbere 1,018 Prostitutes Lesther-sellers or workers 1,279 Fortune-tellers Oll-makers and sellera 1,632 Travellers, &c. 1,859 Banibco-workers 246 Professione unknown Leafplate-maker's Side by side with the Kheri trade list'I place that of Shahjahánpur which borders it to the west, and is a similar district with a similar popu- lation originally; the broadest contrasts exist. In Kheri there are only 400 bankers, and nearly all of these carry on a very petty village business. In Shahjahanpur there are 3,040 bankers of various kinds, whiile 130 per- fumers, 587 makers of hookah snakes, 326 lawyers, 172 firework-makers, 3,017 goldsmiths, bear evidence in other ways to the great prosperity of the country. Shábjahanpur has not tlie same natural advantages as Kheri, which possesses a more fertile soil, intersected or bordered by three great navigable rivers. Kheri likewise has been, in very early times, a seat of Hindu civilization, and was twice colonized Musulman emperors, who selected it as the best place for a prosperous settlement. But Sháhja- hánpur enjoyed several artificial advantages --one that of English govern- ment for three quarters of a century, another a resident proprietary body of yeomen, with small estates, upon which most of them are not ashamed to labour. Lastly, there has always been a large expenditure on roads, buildings, and the support of troops, European and Native. In all these matters Kheri exhibits a broad contrast. Kheri, Shahjahanpur. bad Cultivators Labourers Servants Bankers Goldsmitha Grain-aellera Weavera Peper-cakera Oopper-workers Oil-manufacturera Cutlets Prieste Glass bangle-makers Necklace-makers Dyers 174,545 50,906 6,871 400 542 1,863 3,185 None. 745.246 70,259 86,643 3,040 8,615 11,463 26,178 106 1,110 8,360 698 634 2,282 712 961 1,682 None. 668 406 245 168 N.B.-The numbers entered for Kheri are those of adult males only ; those of Sháh- jahanpur include their familica, For coin parison the former should be multiplied by 3).