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MYSORE. AREA, POPULATION, ETC., OF MYSORE STATE IN 1881. (According to the Census Report.) Number of Divisions. Districts. Area in Square Miles. Number of Houses. Population. Density of Population. Villages. Bangalore,. Bangalore,. Kolar, .. Túmkúr,. 2,901 1,891 3,420 2,450 2,983 2,295 IOS,466 77,633 90,822 669,139 461, 129 413,183 231 244 I21 Total, 8,212 7,728 276,921 1,543,451 188 Ashtagram, Mysore,. . Hassan,. . 2,980 1,879 2,137 3,024 138,912 100,368 902, 566 535,506 303 285 Total,. 4,859 5,161 239,280 1,438,372 296 Nagar, .. Shimoga, Kadúr,. Chitaldrug,. . 3,797 2,984 4,571 1,973 1,373 1,420 85,365 60,883 70,751 499,728 328,327 376,310 132 IIO Total,. 11,652 4,766 2 16,999 1,204,3651 103 Grand Total, 24,7232 17,655 733,200 4,186,188 169 The figures given in this table refer to February 1881, one month before the State was handed over to its native ruler. Since then there has been a redistribution of the territory. The old Divisions were a bolished, and the former eight Districts were reorganized into six Districts in 1883, as under. The population figures given below are those of the Census of 1881, but on the new District areas. Districts. Population. Bangalore, 724,299 Kolár, 498,348 Túmkúr,. 636,674 Mysore,. 1,194,087 Shimoga,. 582,566 Kadur, 550,215 Total,. 4,186, ISS 2 Of the total area shown, 15,7731 square miles have been surveyed by the Revenue Survey Department. The remainder, 89491 square miles, is the approximate area of the unsurveyed portion of the State. Physical Aspects.- Mysore, as at present constituted for it should be remembered that the limits of the State lave varicd greatly from time to time—is an undulating table-land, much broken by ranges of rocky hills and scored by deep ravines; situated in the angle where the Eastern and Western Ghats converge into the group of the Nilgiri