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JAYSORE 97 of Mysore then amounted to 5,055,412 persons, dwelling in 1,012,738 houses, and in 19,630 villages or townships. The total area was taken at 27,078 square miles, or 2355 more than for the Census of 1881. The area shown in 1881 is 24,723 square miles; and the population is returned at 4,186,188 persons, dwelling in 733,200 houses, and in 17,655 towns and villages. The figures of 1881 yield the following averages : - Persons per square mile, 169; villages per square mile, 071; persons per village, 237; houses per square mile, 36'46; persons per house, 571. Classified according to sex, there were 2,085,842 males and 2,100,346 females; proportion of males, 49.8 per cent. Classified according to age, there were—under 15 years, 767,991 boys and 770,432 girls; total children, 1,538,423, or 368 per cent of the population : 15 years and upwards, 1,317,851 males and 1,329,914 females; total adults, 2,647,765, or 63*2 per cent. The following is the religious classification adopted :--Hindus, 3,956,336, or 94.5 per cent. ; Muhammadans, 200,484, or 4'8 per cent. ; Christians, 29,249, or 0°7 per cent. ; Parsis, 47 ; Sikhs, 41; Buddhists, 9 : Jew, 1; and others,' 21. The Christian population, 17,430 of whom reside in Bangalore city and cantonment, admits of several principles of sub-division. Out of the total, 5188 were returned as Europeans, 3040 as Eurasians, and 21,021 as native converts. A ing to another principle, 7847 are Protestants, and 20,510 Roman Catholics, leaving 892 unspecified. The ethnical classification affords the following results :- Bráhmans, 162,652 ; Kshattriyas, 13,251 ; Maráthás, 41,239; Jains, 10,760; other Hindu castes, sub-divided into trading classes, agricultural castes, artisan castes, miscellaneous castes, wandering tribes, out-castes, and non-Hindu aboriginal castes and tribes, total 3,958,286. Taking the population, exclusive of the Brahman or priestly, and Kshattriya or military, and writers' castes, the Census gives the following caste classification :-Among the Vaisyas or trading class, the Komátis were 25,985, and others,' 128,622 ; Satánis (servants in Vishnuite temples), 16,873 ; Dasárís and other mendicants, 2736 ; Ráchevárs (athletes and fighters), 7708; Rangárs (calico printers), 3493 ; Lingáyats, 470,269; Wokligas (agricultural labourers), 803,521 ; others of the agricultural class, 128,622 ; Kunchigárs (brass and copper smiths), 82,474; Kurubárs (shepherds), 291,965; Uppárs (salt-makers), 84,583 ; Tiglárs (market gardeners), 44,283; Gollárs (cowherds), 57,916; Idigárs (toddydrawers), 84,407; Neyigárs (weavers), 167,755 ; Kumbhárs (potters), 31,269 ; Agasárs (washermen), 69,928; Gonigárs (sack - makers), 1531 ; Darjis (tailors), 5991; Nápits (barbers), 30,376 ; Ganigárs (oilpressers), 29,449; Korachárs, Lambanis, Jogis, Dambaros, and other wandering tribes, 53,782 ; out-castes, 622,245; non-Hindu aboriginal VOL. X.