Census of the N.W. Provinces, 1865, Volúmenes1-4

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Government Press, North-Western Provinces, 1867
 

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Página 109 - The persons in this Class are all employed, if they are employed at all, in houses. Some supply simply service, others with it supply board and lodging (Order 5). They are paid wages (servants), or they are paid for the board and lodging and attendance which they supply. The publicans and beersellers are so much associated and so often confounded with hotel and inn keepers that they are retained in the same Order ; although the Order dealing in " drinks
Página 110 - drinks " may claim them. The wife and grown-up children (Order 4) perform at home for the bulk of the population the same duties as the persons in Order 5 ; but they are not paid directly in money for their services, as they form a part of the natural family ; consequently they are distinguished in a separate Order. The very...
Página 42 - Notwithstanding that, in any ordinary population, there is a decided preponderance in the number of Females, the number of Male births is considerably greater than that of females. Taking the average of the whole of Europe, the proportion is about 106 Males to 100 Females.
Página 109 - Country. 2. Persons engaged in the Defence of the Country. 3. Persons engaged in the Learned Professions, or engaged in Literature, Art, and Science (with their immediate subordinates).
Página 58 - Bhooksas build even earthen walls for their houses, which are made of posts driven into the ground with beams resting on them. The walls are made of reeds, locally termed tant, tied with grass, and generally smeared over with mud and cow-dung, with a thatched roof. The Tharoos keep their residences scrupulously clean. For wells, which they only use for drinking purposes, and never for irrigation, a hollowed tree is sunk in the ground.
Página 109 - CLASS. (Orders 1, 2, 3.) Andrici. This great class includes those persons who are rendering direct service to mankind, and satisfying their intellectual, moral, and devotional wants. The three first orders consist of civil servants, national or local ; the army and navy ; the learned professions, with their immediate subordinates ; literary and scientific men ; as well as artists in the widest sense. The first order (1...
Página 95 - ... materials for the science of political economy. Although much more attention has been paid to this subject in recent times, yet the observations have not been so extensive nor so accurate as is desirable. The first table of mortality was constructed by doctor Halley, from the mortuary registers of Breslau, for five years ending with 1691, and was inserted in his paper on the subject in the Philosophical Transactions for 1693, with many useful observations on the purposes to which such tables...
Página 56 - Chittaur, and refer to Jaimul and Patta : they state that they w^ere driven from their homes and settled here. The reference would appear to indicate the third sack of Chittaur, about...
Página 91 - 'Jeynee (Jaini) is derived from Jina, the generic name of the personage peculiar to the Jaina sect, who is ranked by them as superior to the gods of the other sects.
Página 124 - ... of unions with Bhar families. Mr. G. Ricketts, in his Memorandum, states that " three influential castes or clans claim an admixture of Bhar blood. These are the Bharors, Garhors, and Tikaits. The two former are not numerous. They are landed proprietors in the southern portions of this (Allahabad) district; and appear to be a connecting link between the higher castes, who are generally landed proprietors, and those inferior castes whose lot is servitude. The Tikaits are numerous, and possess...

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