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others not Hindus' the others forming, doubtless, a fraction so small that they may be here disregarded. This gives somewhat more than five Hindus to one Muhammadan, and so differs but little from the estimate of the Emperor Jahangir above quoted, and which probably had reference to the same tract of country. The revenue of the Upper Provinces amounts to about £4,700,000, which gives a taxation of about five shillings a head. Throughout India the state of industry and the system of revenue is nearly the same; and taking the gross income of the whole country at forty millions sterling (22 British and 18 native princes), it will result that the population amounts to two hundred millions in all, or double what it is commonly believed to be. The calculation, however, is borne out by the analogous condition of affairs in Germany. In Prussia the taxation is about eleven shillings a head, and the proportion seems to hold good in the other component states of the empire. [The Census of 1911 shows the population and proportion as follows. A total population of 23,807,750, distributed in the following proportions :
Muhammadans roughly one-half. Hindus
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three-eighths. one-eighth. Ed.]
APPENDIX III
THE KSHATTRIYAS AND ARORAS OF THE PUNJAB The Kshattriyas of the Punjab maintain the purity of their descent, and the legend is that they represent those of the warrior race who yielded to Paras Ram and were spared by him. The tribe is numerous in the
Upper Punjab and about Delhi and Hardwar. Kshattriyas are found in towns along the Ganges as far as Benares and Patna; but in Bengal, in Central India, and in the Deccan they seem to be strangers, or only to be represented by ruling families claiming a solar or lunar origin. In the Punjab the religious capital of the Kshattriyas seems to be the ancient Dipalpur. The Kshattriyas divide themselves into three principal the classes (1) the Charjatis, or the four clans; (2) Bawanjais, the clans; and twelve (3) the Barajatis, or or fifty-two clans. The Charjatis are, 1st, the Seths; :
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others not Hindus' the others forming, doubtless, a fraction so small that they may be here disregarded. This gives somewhat more than five Hindus to one Muhammadan, and so differs but little from the estimate of the Emperor Jahangir above quoted, and which probably had reference to the same tract of country. The revenue of the Upper Provinces amounts to about £4,700,000, which gives a taxation of about five shillings a head. Throughout India the state of industry and the system of revenue is nearly the same; and taking the gross income of the whole country at forty millions sterling (22 British and 18 native princes), it will result that the population amounts to two hundred millions in all, or double what it is commonly believed to be. The calculation, however, is borne out by the analogous condition of affairs in Germany. In Prussia the taxation is about eleven shillings a head, and the proportion seems to hold good in the other component states of the empire. [The Census of 1911 shows the population and proportion as follows. A total population of 23,807,750, distributed in the following proportions :
Muhammadans roughly one-half. Hindus
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Sikhs
"
three-eighths. one-eighth. Ed.]
APPENDIX III
THE KSHATTRIYAS AND ARORAS OF THE PUNJAB The Kshattriyas of the Punjab maintain the purity of their descent, and the legend is that they represent those of the warrior race who yielded to Paras Ram and were spared by him. The tribe is numerous in the
Upper Punjab and about Delhi and Hardwar. Kshattriyas are found in towns along the Ganges as far as Benares and Patna; but in Bengal, in Central India, and in the Deccan they seem to be strangers, or only to be represented by ruling families claiming a solar or lunar origin. In the Punjab the religious capital of the Kshattriyas seems to be the ancient Dipalpur. The Kshattriyas divide themselves into three principal the classes (1) the Charjatis, or the four clans; (2) Bawanjais, the clans; and twelve (3) the Barajatis, or or fifty-two clans. The Charjatis are, 1st, the Seths; :
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