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 BEXARES.

254 (2)

(3) (4)

domestic servants, inn and lodging-house keepers, etc., 16,952 commercial class, including merchants, traders, carriers, etc., 79,377 agricultural and pastoral class, including gardeners, 2,415,155;



(5) industrial

including manufacturers and

class,

artisans,

347,861



(6) indefinite and non-productive class, including general labourers, male children, and unspecified, 2,009,632. The total male adult

agricultural population

area of

2

returned at 2,402,483, cultivating an average The entire agricultural population, however,

is

’67 acres each.

wholly dependent on the

soil,

of the Divisional population.

amounts

Of

to 7,515,510, or 76'53 per cent, the total area of 18,337 square miles,

15,543 square miles are assessed for the payment of Government revenue, of which 9569 square miles are actually under cultivation,

2520 square miles

cultivable,

and the remainder uncultivable

waste.

Total Government assessment, including local rates and cesses levied on land, ;^97o,i92, or an average of 3s. ifd. per cultivated acre ; total

amount of

rent, including cesses, ;^2, 020,8 10, or

per cultivated acre.

The

administrative

staff,

an average of

6s.

3^d.

with the Commissioner

its head, consists of 94 civil and revenue judges of and 10 1 magistrates; strength of regular police, 5096 men, besides a large body of village w'atchmen, maintained by the landholders and cultivators, either by money payments or rent-free grants of land. Gross imperial revenue, ^1^1,064,333; cost of officials and police,

of the Division at

all

sorts,

^133,400. Benares. District in the Lieutenant-Governorship of the NorthWestern Provinces, lying between 25° 8' 30" and 25° 32' 30" n. lat., and between 82° 42' and 83° 35' 30" e. long.; area, 998 square Benares is a District in the miles; population (1881) 892,694 souls. bounded on the north by Ghazipur name, and is same the Division of south Mirzapur; and on the east by and by the west on Taunpur; and

—

Shahabad in Bengal. of Benares. Physical Aspects

.

The

—The

administrative head-quarters are at the city

District of

Benares forms part of the

deposited by the river Ganges, and occupies parallelogram on either bank of the sacred stream. valley

an

alluvial

irregular

The

surface

consists of a level plain, with a gentle upward slope on each side from and the general monotony of its cultivated the central depression

—

broken by the ravines of two tiny streamlets the Barna and by the deep gorges and in the west and the Nand in the north precipitous cliffs of the Karamnasa on the south-eastern boundary.

fields is only

The Ganges

—

enters the District as a very large river,

augmented

at the

point of leaving Allahabad by the Jumna (Jamuna), and joined 16 miles below Benares city by the waters of the Giimti. Before reaching the confines of Ghdzipur,

it

presents a magnificent expanse of 4 miles in The Giimti also flows through the

breadth during the rainy season.