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NORTH-ITESTERN PROVINCES AND OUDII. 373 7726 Eurasians or persons of mixed race, 70 Armenians, and 13,255 natives. Classified by sect, the Christian population of the NorthWestern Provinces and Oudh in 1881 is thus sub-divided — Church of England, 26,048 (including 46c6 natives); Roman Catholics, 9384 (including 1782 natives); Presbyterians, 3443 (including 1247 natives); Methodists, 2.447 (including 1500 natives); Baptists, 677 (including 276 natives); Lutherans, 482 (including 475 natives); and other miscellaneous sects, 5183 (including 3378 natives). Almost the entire male adult European population (18,117) are employer in the army, only a few (975) being in the civil employ of Government. Most of the Eurasian males are employed on the various railway works. The Jains are regarded locally as a sect of Hindus. The few Buddhists are composed of Chinamen employed in tea-gardens, or immigrants from beyond the Tibetan border. The Sikhs belong to the Punjabi regiments quartered in the Provinces ; and a good many of them are in the police force. The Brahmos are all Bengális; among the people of the Provinces they are looked upon as Hindus. Occupations.-- The Census of 1881 distributes the adult male population of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh into the following six main classes :-(1) Professional class, including State officials of every kind, and members of the learned professions, 379,008; (2) doniestic class, including lodging-house and inn keepers, 107,061; (3) commercial class, including merchants, bankers, carriers, etc., 382,718; (4) agricultural and pastoral class, including gardeners, 10,587,739, or nearly 70 per cent of the whole adult male population ; (5) industrial class, including all manufacturers and artisans, 2,429,788; and (6) indefinite class, comprising male children, general labourers, and persons of unspecified occupation, 1,465,890. There were returned as of no occupation, 7,560,352. Total male population, 22,912,556. Of the adult female population nearly 60 per cent. (4,547,183) are returned under the agricultural class, while 26 per cent., or 2,000,086, are grouped under the heading industrial. Among the adult male population, Hindu priests number 81,318; Muhammadan mullas, 569; physicians and surgeons, 11,857 ; musicians, dancers, etc., 18,608 ; authors and editors, 18; painters, 206; teachers, 17,632 ; astrologers, 509; innkeepers, 8706; moneylenders, 37,900; shopkeepers, 16,641 ; pedlars, 24,418. Of the entire mercantile class, more than half are money - lenders or their subordinates and clerks. Of the industrial classes, workers in textile fabrics (985,226) are by much the largest ; artisans and mechanics number about 600,000. There are 71 persons returned as newspaper proprietors; booksellers, 594; bookbinders, 424; printers, 1656;