The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

by Sir James McCrone Douie

[6]Barber.

[7]Oilman.

[8]Scavenger.

[9]Leather-worker.

Table II. Rainfall, Cultivation, Population, and Land Revenue.

Zone	District	Rainfall in Inches	No. of Masonary Wells	Cultivated Area Acres 1922-1912	Classes of Cultivation, p.c.							Population 1911	Land Revenue in 1911-1912 in hundreds of rupees
					Well	Canal	Abí	Total Irrd.	Moist	Dry	Total Unirrd.
Mountain and Submontane	Kánga	125	5	587,826	—	—	20	20	—	80	80	770,386	9,267
	Simla	68	—	9,984	—	—	7	7	—	90	94	39,320	175
	Ambála	35	2,154	750,515	4	—	2	6	4	90	94	689,970	11,477
	Hoshyárpur	36	6,841	722,122	5	2	1	8	—	92	92	918,569	14,225
	Total British dts. Panjáb	—	9,000	2,070,447	3	1	6½	10½	1½	88	89½	2,418,245	35,144 (1.10.0)[1]
	Hazára (N.W.F.P.)	46	353	430,872	—	—	10	10	—	90	90	603,028	5,129 (1.3.1)
	Kashmír and Jammu	35[3]	—	1,750,056	—	—	—	32	—	—	68	2,893,066	—
	Indus Valley[2]	5[4]	—	121,952	—	—	—	—	—	—	100	210,315[5]	—
	Total Kashmír	—	—	1,872,008	—	—	—	30	—	—	70	3,103,381	—
North Central Panjáb Plain (British Districts)	Gujrát	28	10,221	845,023	26	—	—	26	6	68	74	784,011	8,445
	Siálkot	35	23,010	941,558	54	1	3	58	9	33	42	979,553	14,847
	Gurdáspur	35	6,439	844,403	16	11	—	27	14	59	73	836,771	15,410
	Amritsar	24	12,386	787,229	31	31	—	62	4	34	38	880,728	12,746
	Jalandhar	28	28,289	695,571	44	—	—	44	5	51	56	801,920	14,871
	Ludhiána	28	9,991	754,373	19	7	—	26	4	70	74	517,192	11,103
	Total	—	90,336	4,868,157	32	8	1	41	7	52	59	4,800,175	77,422 (1.9.5)
North-West Area	Ráwalpíndí	33	947	598,371	½	—	½	1	—	99	99	547,827	6,754
	Jhelam	26	4,103	754,585	4	—	—	4	4	92	96	511,175	7,576
	Attock	19	6,850	1,031,962	2½	—	1	3½	1	96	97	519,273	6,741
	Mianwáli	12	7,128	748,255	17	2	—	19	38½	42½	81	341,377	4,866
	Total Panjáb	—	19,028	3,133,173	6	½	½	7	10	83	93	1,919,652	25,937 (0.13.3)
	Pesháwar	13	6,597	894,803	5	33	½	38½	2	59½	61½	865,009	11,375
	Kohát	18	467	327,949	½	—	12	12½	½	87	87½	222,690	2,755
	Bannu	13	11	523,688	—	24	—	24	—	76	76	256,086	3,040
	Total N.W.F.P.	—	7,075	1,746,440	3	24½	2½	30	1	69	70	1,343,785	17,170 (0.15.8)
South-Western Plains	Gujránwála	24	10,926	1,179,348	37	40	—	77	4	19	23	923,419	10,497
	Lahore	21	13,828	1,462,108	31	43½	1	75½	5	19½	24½	1,036,158	11,301
	Sháhpur	14	6,403	1,267,566	14	55	—	69	6	25	31	648,989	8,701
	Jhang	10	11,588	723,733	36	46	—	82	16	2	18	515,526	6,429
	Lyallpur	9	121	1,373,892	—	99	—	99	1	—	1	857,711	12,736
	Lyallpur	10	10,472	815,355	27	28	1	56	25	19	44	555,219	6,225
	Multán	7	20,132	1,081,030	58½	26	1	85½	13½	1	14½	814,871	15,865
	Muzaffargarh	6	14,053	553,643	36	33	4	73	27	—	27	569,461	7,316
	Dera Ghází Khán	6	9,564	1,035,011	25½	16	2½	42	53½	2½	56	499,860	5,752
	Total Panjáb districts	—	97,087	9,491,686	28	46	1	75	14½	10½	25	6,420,814	84,822 (0.14.4)
	D.I. Khán N.W.F.P.	8	795	544,746	1	17	8	26	11	63	74	256,120	3,062 (0.9.0)
South-Eastern Plains (British Districts)	Karnál	30	7,827	1,148,876	13	21	—	37	6	57	63	799,787	10,833
	Delhi[6]	—	7,133	555,057	19	18	—	37	6	57	63	657,604	8,563
	Gurgaon	26	6,594	988,613	13	10	1	24	3½	72½	76	643,177	12,182
	Gurgaon	21	2,450	974,200	4½	30	—	34½	—	65½	65½	541,489	9,660
	Rohtak	21	2,450	974,200	4½	30	—	34½	—	65½	65½	541,489	9,660
	Hissár	16	720	2,691,478	—	11¼	—	11¼	2¼	86½	88¾	804,809	8,582
	Ferozepore	21	7,940	2,248,322	7	40½	—	47½	2	50½	52½	959,657	12,066
	Total Panjáb districts	—	32,664	8,606,546	7	22½	—	29½	3½	67	70½	4,306,523	61,886 (0.11.6)

[1]Rate per cultivated acre in rupees (Rupee 1 = 16 pence).

[2]= Ladákh, Baltistán, Astor, and Gilgit.

[3]At Jammu.