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 BANKIPUR.

76

had increased

to ;^i996, and at the end of the next decade, in 1 880-81, ^3414. The population of the estate, which in 1872 amounted to 49,426, had increased in 1881 to 56,900, namely 28,448 males, and 28,452 females, inhabiting 177 villages, and occupying 9181 houses;

to

density of population, 490’52 per square mile ; villages per square mile, i'53 ; houses per square mile, 91 '88 ; persons per occupied house, 6'2o.

Hindus number 56,619, or 99^5 per is made up of 270 Muhammadans and 1 1 Christians. The religious classification by no means coincides with the ethnical division, as aboriginal tribes, numbering 4529 in number, are returned as Hindus by religion. Among the Hindus of undoubted recognised caste are the following: -Brahman, 5795; Chasa, or cultivators, the most numerous caste in the estate, 12,781 Goali, 4673; Teli, 3628; Kent, 34927 and Khandait, 2191. On a Divided according to

cent.

The

rest

religion,

of the population

—



comparison of these figures with those for the Tributary States of Orissa, it will be seen that Banki is by far the most densely populated of all, and that the proportion of Hindus is much greater, and that of aboriginal tribes less, than in any of the rest. The principal village is Bankf, on the south bank of the Mahanadi (lat. 20° 21' 30" n., long. 85° 33' ii" E.). There is a head police station at Charchika, with outposts at Baideswar, Kalapathar, and Subarnapur.

The

total police

Banki contained in 1-872, 2 schools, attended by 1 16 pupils; and there were in the same year 31 village schools, attendance unknown. The Census of i88r returned 735 boys as under instruction, and 1181 other males as able to read and write, out of a total male population of 28,448. force

is

194 strong.

Bankipur.

— The

civil station

of Patna, and administrative headLat. 25° 36' 40" n., long. 85° 10'

quarters of Patna District, Bengal.

Forms a western suburb

of Patn.v city, and is inhabited almost by the European residents of that town. The population is included in the Census returns for Patna city. The houses of the Europeans, and the police lines, judicial courts, and other public buildings, extend for the most part along the old bank of the Ganges. The railway station (East Indian Railw'ay, and Patna and Gaya State About a mile from it is Railway) is in the quarter called Mi'thapur. the Gold, or store-house, of which an account will be found in the Bankipur has a maiddn or common, a church, article on Patna city. There is no trade jail, dispensary, racket-court, and billiard-room. except in the articles of food, etc., required by the European residents. During the dry weather the stream of the Ganges is about a mile distant, but in the floods there is a backwater which refills the old channel close to the station. The distance of Bankipur from Calcutta by rail is 338 miles. There is a second railway station at Patna city,

50"

E.

entirely

6 miles by

rail

from Bankipur.