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48 JUTTRA. in numerical order are as follows:- Ját, 117,265; Chamár, 99,410; Kori, 18,209; Gadária, 15,559 ; Barhai, 13,835; Nái, 13,402 ; Bhangi, 12,543 ; Kumbhár, 11,016; Máli, 7542 ; Gújar, 7150; Ahir, 6027; Kahár, 5878; Dhobi, 5676; and Mallah, 5056. The Muhammadans are divided according to sect into-Sunnis, 57,732, and Shiás, 356. Ráiputs numbering 3184; Mewatis, 1906; Játs, 174; and Gújars, 14, are found among the Muhammadan population. The Christians include-Europeans, 262 ; Eurasians, 19; and Natives, 57. Town and Rural Population.-Seven towns in 1881 contained a population exceeding 5000 souls, namely—MUTTRA, 47,483; BRINDABAN, 21,467; Kosi, 11,231 ; MAHABAN, 6182 ; KURSANDA, 6018; CHHATA, 6014 ; and SARIR, 5199. These towns contain a total urban population numbering 103,594, or 1594 per cent of the District population. The 848 villages, with a total rural population of 568,096, are classified according to size as follows :—186 contain less than two hundred inhabitants; 275 from two to five hundred ; 234 from five hundred to a thousand; 101 from one to two thousand; 34 from two to three thousand ; and 18 from three to five thousand. As regards occupation, the male population is returned under the following six classes :-(1) Professional and official class, 10,742; (2) domestic servants, inn and lodging-house keepers, 1798; (3) commercial class, including merchants, traders, and carriers, 7452 ; (4) agricultural and pastoral class, 146,474; (5) industrial and manufacturing class, 57,256; and (6) indefinite and non-productive class, including labourers and male children, 137,245. Agriculture.-Out of a total area of 1452 square miles, 1048 square miles were returned as cultivated in 1883–84, 172 square miles as cultivable waste, 103 square miles as barren, and 129 square miles as non-assessed and revenue-free. Joár, bájra, and cotton form the principal crops for the autumn harvest (khari), while wheat, gram, and barley constitute the principal staples for the spring harvest (rabí). These require but little skill or trouble in their cultivation, nor do they demand artificial irrigation. The more valuable crops, such as sugar-cane, tobacco, indigo, and vegetables, occupy only a small area. In the western parganás, a narrow belt of sand extends for about 3 to 5 miles from the border, followed by a light but strong loam, which prevails up to the foot of the sandhills skirting the Jumna valley. Close to these low ridges, the soil becomes much lighter, ending near the river in beds of pure sand. The loam, though friable and easily worked, contains quite enough clay to give it body. Irrigation from tanks is not practised, and no small streams pass tlırough the District; but distributaries from the Ganges canal water part of the Doáb parganás, while the Agra canal, which now traverses the whole trans-Jumna tract, will spread fertility through the dusty plain of the Braj-Mandal.