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Rh Only 28,377 persons — independent of rent receivers — live on their income, and no less than 22,852 persons of this class are in Hyderabad city and its suburbs. Outside the city area there is no leisured class, and in the city, owing to a reduction in the number of State pensioners, this class has largely decreased, for in the Census of 1901 they were entered as 51,757 persons.

The active part taken by women in the work of the State is shewn in the new Census. No less than 130,857 are rice pounders, huskers, etc. Women cultivate the land, breed animals, and help to make roads and bridges. They sell milk, butter, eggs, fowls, hay, grass, sweetmeats, betel leaf and cardamoms. They make tobacco, perfumery, toys, kites, baskets and pottery. They act as midwives, vaccinators, and dealers in precious stones, and (privately) they do a good deal of money-lending. A large number are entered in the Census as "ministers and priests," and no doubt the Christian missionaries help to swell this list, for, finding that their male converts lapse into heathenism unless they are married to Christian girls, the missionaries have now entered the matrimonial market, and educate large numbers