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Shitis still live in the city and immediate neighbourhood of Lucknow. 0f the Muhammadans, 654 are Men-art’s by race, descendants of converts to what was then lltc State religion; tog (itijars; and 29 Rtijputs. The Christian community comprises—-Europeans, 4590; I‘Ittrasians, 946; Armenians, 5; and natne converts, 739.

73mm and Rural Populahim. — Including Lucknow city and canton- ment, the District contains five towns with a population exceeding five thousand inhabitants, namely, I.U(‘K.\ow Ct’l‘\’, 239,773, and canton. tncnt, 21.530; KAKORI. 746:,- MALnnmu, 7276; and Anmm, 5654. Total urban populatiOn, 281,695, or 404 per cent. of the District population. Excluding Lucknow city and cantonmcnt, the urban popu- tion numbered only 20.392, or 2‘9 per cent. The remainder, formin; the rural population, is divided among 94: villages, classified as follows: 292 villages contain less than two hundred in habitants; 355 from two to five hundred; 203 front five hundred to a thousand; 76 from one to two thousand; t4 from two to three thousand; and 2 from three to five thousand inhabitants. With regard to the occupations of the people. the Census Report thus returns the male population :—Class (I) l'rol'csA sional, including all Gowmtncnt officials and servants, and the learned professions, 13,926; (2) domestic and menial servants, lodging—house keepers, etc., 5724; (3) commercial class, including bankers, traders, carriers, etc., 10,507; (a) agricultural class, including gardeners, herds men, shepherds, etc., tt8,3tt; (5) manufacturing and industrial class, including artisans, 54,409: (6) indefinite and non-productive class (comprising 44,605 general labourers, and 117,823 male children, and persons of property of no stated occupation), r62,.t:8.

Agriculture—The total area of Lucknow District, after the recent transfer of parramf: Molrcin Aunts, Kursi, Dcwz’t to neighbouring Districts in 1881, is 9896 square miles. The area under cultivation was estimated by the District officcr in 1882-83 at 426,000 acres, or 665 square miles. This esrimate includes land counted twice over as yielding two harvests in the year. The aetual cultivated area in 1883-84 was only 332,463 acres, of which 139,998 acres were irrigated, entirely by private enterprise. Of the remaining area, 139,046 acres were returned as cultivable, and 155,210 acres as uncultivable waste. There are three harvests in the year, the m6! in spring, the Mari] in the rainy season, and the limwa! in the autumn. For the rabi, the chief crops are wheat, barley, gram, peas, gujai (a mixture of wheat and barley), and firm (a mixture of barley and gram. gram predominating). The land under these crops amounts to tso,0:6 acres, wheat heading the list with 72,329 acres, or more than One-filth of the whole cultivated area. For the Mafifi the crops are rice, millets, sdrrviu, mamhaa, Menu, and Indian corn or maize. For the Animal, the crops are fair and Mjra, writ/l, IIIIJ'IIg. mar/r,

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