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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 152.

t 5 s LASNKAR the Sindhias, which are situated to the south of the city, are goc4 examples of modern Hindu architecture, especially that of the late ?Maharaja. The population has been: (1881) 88,666, (r89i) 88,317, and (19ot) - ioz,626. Hindus number 77,666, or. 76 per cent., and Musalmans , 22,512, or 22 per cent. These figures include the population of the cantonment or Lashkar Brigade,'which amounted to 13,472 in igor. The people are on the whole well-to-do, many of the merchants being men of great wealth. The principal sources of trade are banking and, exchange, stone-carving, and the export of building stone and grain.. There are many temples in the city, but none is of special interest. Lashkar is well supplied with metalled roads, and a branch of the Gwalior Light Railway runs from the Gwalior station to the jai Bilas palace. The General Post Office belonging'to the State postal system is in the Jayendraganj quarter, with branches in other quarters. The city is administered by a municipal board; originally established in 1887. It now consists of 7o members; of whom 22 are officials, and the' rest elected. They have control of the city proper, which is divided into eighteen wards. The management of the lighting, conservancy, roads, markets, drainage, and sanitation, and the acquirement of land for public purposes are in their hands. In 19o3 the total income was Rs. 72,000, chiefly derived from taxes on lighting, bazars, hackney carriages, and the rent of certain lands; and the expenditure was Rs'. 5o,6oo, including conservancy (Rs. 14,000) and public works (Rs. 9,9oo). Public institutions include the Jayaji Rao Hospital with two branches, an asylum for the blind, the Victoria College with three connected schools, a free library in the old Maharajwara, palace, a school for the sons of State nobles, besides a military school, a service school, and two girls' schools, 7 State guesthouses are maintained near the palace and-railway station for Europeans; and there are two sarais for native visitors, of which the Dufferin sarai is a picturesque building close to the station: At the south-east corner of the city lies the cantonment or Lashkar Brigade, known popularly by its earlier title of the Kampu-. It is in charge of a special magistrate, who is responsible for the sanitation as well as the magisterial work. The land on which the Brigade stands was originally part of two villages, Gura-Guri and Rajpura. Daulat Rao Sindhia selected this site for the encampment of the troops under his immediate personal command. Three other plots were added for the regular battalions under his European generals, Alexander, Jean Baptiste Filose, and Jacob. By the seventh article of the treaty entered into with the British Government in 1844, these camps were broken up; and the Alexander Kampu was added to the Maharajit's to form a cantonment for the State troops which, he was permitted'to