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332 NIVAR 20,165 persons, or 9.5 per cent. in nine years. The general results arrived at by the Census of 1881 may be briefly summarized as follows: ---Area of District, 3340 square miles, with 2 towns and 625 villages, and 48,592 houses. Total population, 231,341, namely, males 121,008, or 523 per cent. of the total population, and females 110,333, or 47'7 per cent. Density of population, 69'3 persons per square mile; villages per square mile, *19; persons per village, 370; houses per square mile, 14'55 ; persons per house, 4o76. Classified according to sex and age, there were in 1881—under 15 years of age, males 45,369, and females 42,545; total children, 87,914, or 380 per cent of the District population : 15 years and upwards, males 75,639, and females 67,788; total adults, 143,427, or 62 per cent. Religion. — Classified according to religion, the Hindus in 1881 numbered 199,290, or 86'1 per cent of the District population; Muhammadans, 24,426, or 10'5 per cent. ; Jains, 1247 ; Kabirpanthis, 101; Satnámís, 54; Sikhs, 9; Christians, 789; Pársís, 97; Jews, 46; and non-Hindu aboriginal tribes, 5282, or 2.3 per cent. of the total population. The total aboriginal population by race is returned at 39,041, consisting chiefly of Bhíls, who in 1881 numbered 16,935, and who supply hereditary watchmen to nearly every village in Nimár; Korkus, 9541; Bhilálas, 8648; Náháls, 3036; Gonds, 761; Kols, 99; and other aboriginal tribes, 21. Among the Hindus in 1881, Bráhmans numbered 11,898; Rajputs, 19,295; Kurmis, 21,036 ; Baláhís, 19,320; Baniyás, 7145; Malís, 6563 ; and Ahírs, 6455. Of the Christian population, Europeans numbered 249; Eurasians and Indo-Portuguese, 139; natives, 309; and unspecified, 92. Town and Rural Population. There are only 2 towns in Nimár with a population in 1881 exceeding 5000, viz. KHANDWA, the District capital (population 15,142), and BURHANPUR (30,017). Besides the above, four other towns have been created municipalities, namely, Sháhra (population 2226), Borgaon (1296), Zainabád (1078), and Mándháta (932). These six towns disclose a total urban population of 50,961, or 21'9 per cent. of the District population. Total muni pal income (1882-83), 8567, of which 76972 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, 25. od. per hcad. Of the 627 villages and towns, 335 contain fewer than two hundred inhabitants; 192 from two to five hundred; 70 from five hundred to a thousand; 20 from one to two thousand; 7 from two to three thousand ; I from threc to five thousand; and 2 from fifteen to fifty thousand inhabitants. The male population of the District is thus classified in the Census according to occupation :-(1) Professional class, including civil and military, 4283 ; (2) domestic servants, inn and lodging-house keepers, etc., 1570; (3) commercial class, including merchants, bankers, carriers, I