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APP
RACES, FAITH AND POPULATION
II.
Gusain
3(j2
religionists Bairagi religionists 24 miscellaneous tribes occupying equal to .
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.
.
Total
Villages 3 2 46 1,030
A classification of the tribes of India according to position, origin, and faith is much wanted, and is indeed necessary to a proper comprehension of the history of the country. The Revenue Survey, as conducted in the upper provinces of the Ganges, enumerates several castes or at least the predominant ones, in each village, and the lists might easily be rendered more complete, and afterwards made available by publication for purposes of inquiry and deduction. The Sikh population of the Punjab and adjoining districts has usually been estimated at 500,000 souls in all (cf.-Burnes, Travels, i. 289; and Elphinstone, History of India, ii. 275 n.) but the number seems too small by a half or a third. There are, indeed, no exact data on which to found an opinion; but the Sikh armies have never been held to contain fewer than 70,000 fighting men; they have been given as high as 250,000, and there is no reason to doubt that between the Jhelum and Jumna they could muster nearly half the latter number of soldiers of their own faith, while it is certain that of an agricultural people no member of some families may engage in arms, and that one adult at least of other families wull always remain behind to The gross Sikh population may protill the ground. bably be considered to amount to a million and a quarter or a million and a half of souls, men, women, ,
and children.
The
proportion
of
Hindus
to
Muhammadans
throughout India generally has been variously estimated. The Emperor Jahingir (Memoirs, p. 29) held them to be as five to one, which is perhaps more unequal than the present proportion in the valley of the Ganges. Mr. Elphinstone (History of India, ii. 238 and notes) takes the relative numbers for the whole country to be eight to one. From p. 169 of the Statistics of the NW. Provinces, printed in 1848 and published in 1849 by the Indian Government, it appears that out of a population of 23,199,668 dwelling between Ghazipur and Hardwar, and in the direct or active occupation of about 72,000 square miles of country, there are 19,452,646 Hindus and 3,747,022 Muhammadans, 'and
APP
RACES, FAITH AND POPULATION
II.
Gusain
3(j2
religionists Bairagi religionists 24 miscellaneous tribes occupying equal to .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Total
Villages 3 2 46 1,030
A classification of the tribes of India according to position, origin, and faith is much wanted, and is indeed necessary to a proper comprehension of the history of the country. The Revenue Survey, as conducted in the upper provinces of the Ganges, enumerates several castes or at least the predominant ones, in each village, and the lists might easily be rendered more complete, and afterwards made available by publication for purposes of inquiry and deduction. The Sikh population of the Punjab and adjoining districts has usually been estimated at 500,000 souls in all (cf.-Burnes, Travels, i. 289; and Elphinstone, History of India, ii. 275 n.) but the number seems too small by a half or a third. There are, indeed, no exact data on which to found an opinion; but the Sikh armies have never been held to contain fewer than 70,000 fighting men; they have been given as high as 250,000, and there is no reason to doubt that between the Jhelum and Jumna they could muster nearly half the latter number of soldiers of their own faith, while it is certain that of an agricultural people no member of some families may engage in arms, and that one adult at least of other families wull always remain behind to The gross Sikh population may protill the ground. bably be considered to amount to a million and a quarter or a million and a half of souls, men, women, ,
and children.
The
proportion
of
Hindus
to
Muhammadans
throughout India generally has been variously estimated. The Emperor Jahingir (Memoirs, p. 29) held them to be as five to one, which is perhaps more unequal than the present proportion in the valley of the Ganges. Mr. Elphinstone (History of India, ii. 238 and notes) takes the relative numbers for the whole country to be eight to one. From p. 169 of the Statistics of the NW. Provinces, printed in 1848 and published in 1849 by the Indian Government, it appears that out of a population of 23,199,668 dwelling between Ghazipur and Hardwar, and in the direct or active occupation of about 72,000 square miles of country, there are 19,452,646 Hindus and 3,747,022 Muhammadans, 'and
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