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49: L UCKtVO W DIS T]?! C I:

of the courtiers and retainers of the Nawdb \Vazirs. Of the Christians, 463! are Europeans, rooo Eurasians, 5 Armenians, and fit native converts.

LucknOw Division contains a large urban population, the number of towns, including Lucknow city and cantonment, with upwards of five thousand inhabitants, being 18, with an aggregate town population of 386,256, or r47 per cent. of the total population. The remainder, ur rural population, is divided among 4676 villages, classified as foll0ws:—i399 contain less than two hundred inhabitants, 1786 from two hundred to five hundred, 1018 from five hundred to a thousand, 368 from one to two thousand, 68 from two to three thousand, and 36 from three to five thousand.

Total adult agricultural population, male and female, 854,989, consisting of 30,502 landholders, 598,599 cultivators, 220,250 field labourers, and 5638 agents, etc. The population dependent on the soil, however, numbers 1,705,388, or 651:: per cent. of the whole population of the Division. Of the total area of 4504’s square miles, 4371‘; square miles are assessed for Government revenue. Of these, 2493'6 square miles were under cultivation in 188:, 8929 square miles were cultivable but not under cultivation, and 985': square miles were uncultivable waste. Total Government assess» ment, including local rates and cesses, £395,266, or an average of 45. r rad. per cultivated acre. Total rental paid by cultivators, £742,607, or an average of 95. old. per cultivated acre. The gross revenue of the Lucknow Division in r882-83 was £479,581 ; the total charges for civil administration, as represented by the cost of officials and police, was returned at £56,576. Justice is administered by 4t criminal courts, including that of the Judicial Commissioner of the Province. and 37 civil and revenue courts. Total number of police circles (Ifiti’!d$), 32; strength of regular police, 2386 men; village watchmen (Mouth/(in), 7485.

Lucknow—District of Oudh, in the Lucknow Division or Commis- sioncrship, under the jurisdiction of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces; lying between 26' 30' and 27° 9' 30" N. lat., and between 80' 44' and 81° 15' 30" E. long. Area, 989'6 square miles; population (1881) 696,824. Lucknow is bounded on the north by Ilardoi and Sitipur ; on the cast by Barn Banki; on the south by Rdi

lareli ; and on the west by Unao Districts. In shape, the District is an irregular oblong, running north-west and southeast; average length, 45 miles; average breadth, 25 miles. The administrative hard—quarters an: at Lucxxow Cu v, the capital of the Province.

l’lzyu’ml Aryan—The general aspect of the country is that of an open champaign, studded with villages, finely wooded, and in parts most fertile and highly cultivated. In the vicinity of rivers, however,