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BANGALORE CITY AND CANTONMENT.

70

Population of Bangalore PH.

(i

88 t).

Cantonments.

Total.

52,696 8,688

56.197 20,833

108,893 29.521

I

12

13

Europeans,

2

4,096

Eurasians, Native converts.

6

650

8,129

4.098 2.417 8.779

932

16,498

17.430

62,317

93.540

155.857

Hindus,

.... ....

Muhammadans, Others, Christians

Total Christians,

Grand

total.

Manufactures and Trade.

—

ISIost

city are represented in Bangalore.

2,41

of the trades characteristic of a large

In former years the production of

was a flourishing industry, confined to the Muhammadan section of the community, but it has now greatly declined owing to continued mortality among the worms. Silks of durable texture and brilliant patterns are still woven by patz'egdrs, and sold by weight at from Rs. 4 to Rs. 5 per told. The common country cotton cloth is raw

silk

made

in large quantities, the finer kinds with silk borders.

Bangalore

manufacture of carpets. The common drugget with reversible pattern, called janikhdnd, sells at from is. to 2s. 6d. per square yard ; the rugs and pile carpets (ratnd kambli) fetch from 8s. is

noted

for its

per square yard upwards.

The

carpets

made in the central jail, after demand even in the English

Persian and Turkish designs, are in great

Other specialties are the manufacture of gold and silver and of electro-plating and the tanning of leather. The handicrafts, stimulated by the presence of European civilisation, include printing, book-binding, lithography, photography, coach-building, and cabinet-making. A steam woollen factory has lately been started, and In is fairly successful. In both quarters of the town are busy markets. the pet, the public market is situated between the fort and the IMysore gate. But business is conducted everywhere amid the crowded thorougliThe fares, especially at open stalls along either side of the Doddapet. European shops are mostly in the cantonment bdzdr, in which also a commodious and well-kept market-place has recently been laid out. The Bangalore branch of the Madras Railway has its terminus in market. lace,

Bangalore. Its total length from the Jollarpet junction is 84 miles, of which 53 lie within the limits of the State of Mysore, with 3 stations exclusive of the terminus. There were in 1881 altogether 29 jointstock companies for banking or trade, registered in Bangalore city. The