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STATISTICAL ABSTRACT

FOR

BRITISH INDIA.

FOREWORD.

The second issue contained figures up to and including the year 1921-22. And it is intended that this publication should appear annually and that each successive issue should show the figures of one year later than the previous issue. But in order to bring the publication up to date figures for the two years 1922-23 and 1923-24 have been added in this volume.

In the statistics of agriculture and co-operative societies the year runs generally from July to June. All the other tables relate either to the fiscal year (April to March) or to the calendar year, and where the latter is the case it is clearly indicated in the tables.

The undermentioned table shown in the 2nd Issue of the Abstract has been omitted:

No. 135. Currency Notes in circulation and held in Government Treasuries in each Circle in India.

C. G. FREKE,

Director General.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

AND STATISTICS, INDIA;
July 15, 1925.

(142) Wt. 15073/508 1,125 12/25 S.E.R., Ltd. GP. 56

TABLE NO.

1. India, British Territory and Indian States, Area, Population, etc.

2. Variation in Population since 1901

3. Density of Population according to Administrative Divisions

4. Towns and Villages classified by Population

5. Main statistics for Cities (including Cantonments)

6. Population of Principal Towns

7.

according to Religion

8. Variation in Distribution of the Population by Religion since 1901

9. Distribution of Christian Population by Race, etc.

10. Territorial Distribution of Christians

11. Distribution of Population by Residence, Sex and Civil Condition

12.

Religion, Sex and Civil Condition

Age, Sex and Civil Condition

Residence, Age and Sex

Religion and Education

Residence and Education

17. Numbers and Residence of Chief Castes

18. Population according to Occupation

33-34

36-37

19.

Classes of Occupation

38-40

28.

29.

30.

31.

32.

25. Number of Judicial Divisions and Number of Officers exercising

Appellate or Original Jurisdiction

26. Civil and Criminal Justice-Number of Čases decided in, and

Receipts and Charges of, the Courts

27. Civil Justice-Number and Description of Civil Suits instituted

Number and Value of Civil Suits instituted

General Results of Trial of Civil and Revenue

Cases in Courts of Original Jurisdiction, Civil Suits

33. Criminal Justice-Results of Trials .

Nature of Offences reported and Number of Persons

Cognisable Crime, number of Cases and Persons concerned

Non-cognisable Crime, number of Cases and Persons concerned

Property stolen and recovered

66

Appeals and Revisions

67

tried for them

68-69

70-71

72-73

74-77

78-81

82

Equipment, Discipline and internal Management of the

Force

84-87

Strength and Cost of Military Police

Principal Police Offences

44. Prisons, Number and Distribution of Prisoners

92-93

57. Number and Description of Documents, and value of Property

transferred

116-117

58. Number of Persons killed by Wild Animals and Snakes. Number

of Wild Animals destroyed, and Expenditure on Rewards for

their Destruction

59. Abstract Statement of Revenue, Expenditure and Public Debt of

British India, in India and in England

60. General Statement of Gross Revenue and Expenditure charged
against Revenue or Capital, Annual Surplus or Deficit, and
Cash Balances, in India and in England

61. General Statement of the transactions in India and England and

of the balances of the different Provincial Governments.

62. General Statement of the Revenue in India and England

63. General Statement of the Expenditure charged against Revenue,

in India and England

64. Distribution between voted and non-voted Expenditure

65. Expenditure (charged against Revenue) and Receipts in England,

in sterling

66. Ways and Mens in England, in sterling

67. Customs Revenue and Charges

68. Taxes on Income and Charges

69. Details of Taxes on Income

70. Salt Revenue and Charges

71. Quantity and Value (excluding duty) of Salt produced

72. Balance (available for Consumption) of Issues and Imports over

Exports of Salt

73. Quantity of Salt (in maunds of 82 lbs. each) sold in each

Province

74. Rate (per maund) of duty and Selling Price (that is the Price

which Government charged for Salt in addition to the Duty)

75. Opium Revenue and Expenditure

76. Number of Chests of Opium sold for Export and issued to Excise

and Medical Departments and number of chests paying duty

77. Auction average price per chest of Bengal (Patna and

Benares) Opium at each monthly Government Sale, the Average

of the year and the Number of Chests sold in each Calendar

year

78. Area of Cultivation, Total Production and Production per Bigha

of Bengal Opium

79. Quantity (chests) of Bengal opium made, charges thereof, net

and average cost per chest of Provision Opium, and average

weight to each chest

and Value of Opium sold by Government direct to

Colonial Governments, etc., under agreement

80.

81. Amount of Land Revenue and Charges

82. Details of Land Revenue and Charges

83. Amount of Excise Revenue and Charges

84. Details of Excise Revenue

118

119

120-121

122-123

124-127

128--133

134-142

144-147

148-149

150-151

152

ib

153-154

155

156-157

ib

158-159

160

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85. Number of Shops licensed for sale of Liquors and Intoxicating

Drugs, Receipts from license fee, duty and other items of Excise

Revenue, and Incidence of Excise Taxation

176

91.

92. Net Revenue Receipts of State Railways, Charges against them
and net Gain or Loss to Government.
93. General Results of Irrigation, Navigation, Embankment and
Drainage Works. 178-179
94. Capital Expenditure on the Construction of Railways and Irri-
gation, Navigation, Embankment and Drainage Works
95. General Results of the Post and Telegraph Department

96.

Interest Receipts.

97. Expenditure on Famine Relief

98. Distribution of Expenditure on Famine Relief.

99. Military Expenditure in India and England

180-181

182-183

184 185

186

ib

187-189

100. Contribution to the Central Government by Provincial Govern-
ments to provide for the deficiency of Central Revenue as
compared with Central Expenditure

108. Sinking Funds for Central and Provincial Rupee Loans
109. Railway Sinking Funds created pursuant to certain Acts of Parlia-
ment and the application thereof

198-200

113. Council Bills and Telegraphic Transfers drawn on India by the

Secretary of State.

114. Sterling Bills and Telegraphic Transfers drawn on London by the
Government of India

115. Council Bills and Telegraphic Transfers drawn on Calcutta,
Bombay and Madras.
and Telegraphic Transfers paid in Calcutta,
Bombay and Madras

116.

204

ib

205

206

117. Sales by Secretary of State of Bills and Transfers on India in
each month. 207-208
by the Government of India of bills and transfers on London
in each month

119. Cash Balances at the close of each year
120. Minimum and Maximum Price in London of Standard Silver per
ounce in each month
121. Exchange on London, Bank of England Rate of Discount and
Bank of Bengal Rate of Interest
122. Price of Sovereigns and Uncoined Gold in India in each month
123.
Gold in London and Bombay at the end of each half
month

(including import duty) of Bar Silver in Bombay
125. Rate of Exchange between Bombay and Hongkong in rupees per
100 dollars for each month

126. Imports into and Exports from British India of Gold and the
amount received and the amount coined in the Mints
127.
Silver and the
amount received and the amount coined in the Mints
128. Quantity (in ounces) of Gold and Silver imported into and exported
from British India from and to Foreign Ports

TABLE NO.

Mint

129. Coinage at the Calcutta and Bombay Mints
130. Old Government of India Rupees (including small silver coins)
received into the Mints for re-coinage, and silver coinage in each
131. Coins other than the Government of India Rupees received into
the Mints for re-coinage
132. Number and Value of Government Currency Notes of each deno-
mination in circulation on the 31st March in each year
133. Value of Notes in circulation and composition of the Paper
Currency Reserve on the 31st March in each year
134. Created Securities in the Paper Currency Reserve and Appropria-
tions for their reduction
135. Receipts, Charges and net Profits of the Paper Currency Depart-
ment

PAGE.

224-239

240

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241

242

ib

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BANKS

136. Progress of Banking Capital in India
137. Proportion per cent of Cash to Liabilities on Deposits of the
several classes of Banks on 31st December of each year

243-244

244

138. Population and Constitution of Municipalities with Income and
Expenditure

246-247

MUNICIPALITIES.

139. Income of Municipalities
140. Expenditure of Municipalities

248-251

252-253

141. Name of each Municipality containing Population of 50,000 and
above, with Income and Expenditure

146. Classification of Colleges and Schools and Number of Scholars
attending them

263-264

147. Number of Colleges and Schools and of Scholars attending them,
by Provinces
148. Stages of Instruction in Recognised Schools for general education
149. Number of pupils in each stage of instruction, classified according
to Sex, Race or Creed

Examinations in Arts and Science of Indian Universities.
155. Number of Recognised Educational Institutions under manage-
ment of Government and Local Bodies and under private
management; also of Unrecognised Institutions, Number of
Scholars.

156. Total Expenditure from all sources on each class of Educational
Institutions in British India
157
in different Provinces
158. Expenditure on Education in each Province
159. Distribution of Expenditure on Education

160. Sources of Expenditure on Education in British India
161. Total Expenditure on Public Instruction in different Provinces
162. Classification of Pupils in Schools for General Education according