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OUDI. 499 Thárus (27,000 in the united Provinces), live in small isolated groups on the outskirts of the jungle or the hill country, and hold no communication with the outer world. The Nats (acrobats) and Kanjars (rope-makers and trappers) wander like gipsies orer the face of the country, with their small movable villages or wigwams of matting and leaf-screens. The Koris (3+1,10%) and Chainárs (1,129,250), weavers and leather-cutters, reach the lowest depth of all, having been incorporated into the Hindu system as the most degraded class in the whole structure. In the northern Districts of Oudh, many of them still practically occupy the position of serfs, and descend with their children as bound to the soil, having seldom spirit enough to avail themselves of the remedy afforded by our courts of law. They hold the plough for the Brahman or kshattriya master, and dwell with the pigs in a separate quarter of the village, apart from their purer neighbours. Always on the verge of starvation, their lean, black, and illformed figures, their stupid faces, and their filthy habits, reflect the long degradation to which they have been hereditarily subjected. The total number of Europeans in Oudh was 5446 in 1969, and 6361 in 1881 ; of Eurasians, 985 in 1869, and 1262 in 1881. Of the 6361 Europeans in 1881, males numbered 5234, and females 1127. The ratio of males to females is nearly equal among the Eurasians of the Province; of the 1262 Eurasians in Oudh in 1881, males nunibered 594, and females 668. Most of the Europeans are in the service of the State, in a niilitary or civil department. Most of the Eurasians are engaged otherwise than in the service of the State. Occupation. The Census of 1881 distributes the adult male population of Oudh into the following six main groups :-(1) Professional class, including State officials of every kind and members of the learned professions, $2,692; (2) domestic servants, inn and lodging keepers, 22,454 ; (3) comniercial class, including bankers, merchants, and carriers, 74,719; (+) agricultural and pastoral class, including gardeners, 2,827,720; (5) industrial class, including all manufacturers and artisans, 479,945; and (6) indefinite class, comprising all male children, general labourers, and persons of unspecified occupation, 2,364, 125. Town and Rural Population.—Oudh contained in 1881 the following 18 towns with a population over 10,000:-(1) LUCKNOW, population 261,303 ; (2) FAIZABAD, 43,927; (3) BAHRAICH, 19,439 ; (+) SHAHABAD, 18,510; (5) KHAIRABAD, 14,217; (6) SANDILA, 14,865; (7) NAWABGANJ, 13,933 ; (8) BALRAMPUR, 12,811; (9) TANDA, 16,594 ; (10) RUDAULI, 11,394; (11) GONDA, 13,743 ; (12) Bilgram, 11,067; (13) ROKHA JAIS, 11,044; (14) MALLANWAN, 10,970; (15) Rai BARELI, 11,781 ; (16) LAHARPUR, 10,437 ; (17) A JODHYA, 11,643 ; (18) HARDOI, 10,026. Later figures for the municipal areas will be found under their respective names. Thirty-seven other towns have a population exceeding