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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 183.

Lucknow contains 6 towns and 932 villages. At the four enumera- .tions the numbers were: (-3869) 778,x95, (188x) 696,824, (1891) 774y163I and (r9ox) 793241 The first Census pro- p0pu1atian ~. bably overstated the actual population, but the District suffered severely from famine in ,877-8. There are three tahsils- LuCKNOW, MALIHABAD, and MOHANLALGANJ-the head-quarters of each being situated at a place of the same name. The principal town is LUCKNOW CITY, the District headquarters. The following table gives the chief statistics of population in 190 i :- Number of q 001 04'O C E" ~' 0.i C+ ~• a Lucknow, . 360 3 327 454,896- x,264 + 1-4 30,844 Mallhabad 334 1 379 184,230 552 + 4•9 3417 Mohanlalganj . 273 2 226 x54,rr5 565 + 2.6 3,x56 District total 967 6 932 793,241 820 + 2-5 37,07 Hindus form 78 per cent: of the total, and Musalmdns more than 20 per cent. About one-seventh of the latter are Shiahs ; this is a large proportion for India, due to the fact that the Oudh kings belonged to that sect. About 8o per cent. of the population speak Eastern Hindi and about 20 per cent. Western Hindi; chiefly Hin- d'ustani. The Hindu castes most largely represented are the Pasis (toddy- drawers and labourers), 84,000; Ahirs (graziers and agriculturists); 77,000; Chamars (tanners and cultivators), 75,000; Lodhas (culti- vators) 57,000; Brahmans, 46,ooo; RAjputs, 30,000; and Kurmis (agriculturists), 22,ooo. Among Muhammadans are Shaikhs, 50,000; Pathans, 26,ooo; Saiyids, 17,000; and Mughals, 12,000. Agriculture supports only 52 per cent. of the total, but about one-third of the population of the. District is included in Lucknow city. Personal services support 9 per cent., cotton-weaving nearly 7 per cent., and r general labour 5 per cent. The cultivating castes are chiefly Rajputs; Brahmans, Ahirs, Pasis, Chamars, Lodhas, and Musalmans, with a certain proportion of the more skilful castes of Kurmis and, Muraos. Out of 7,247 Christians in 19or, natives numbered 2,150. The latter include 846 members of the Anglican communion, 562 Metho-. dists, 363 Roman . Catholics, and 152 Presbyterians. A Zanana mission was established in 1852, the Church. Missionary Society Mission in 1858, the American Methodist Mission in x859, and a Wesleyan mission in 1863. The District : is the smallest in the United Provinces, and the only