Nabal, Rajah Jeswunt Sing Bahadur. Nahun, (Hill States of Sirmore) Rajah Futteh Purkas Rajpoot. Nundpoor, Makhabal. Mata Rajkoorum, Dewan Sing, Dundar Sing, Rum Singh, Runjeet Sing, Bhurpoor Sing, Ootun Sing, and Jewun Sing Soodhees. Putiala, Maharaj Kurrum Sing, Mohundur Buhadar, and Koonwur Ujeet Sing. Ramjurh, Means, Dhae Sing, and Narajimdas. Ray Kote, Ranee Nooroonnisse. Raypoor, Roy Goodial Sing, and Natha Sing. Ropur, Surdar Bhope Singh. Sayallah, Surdar Deurab Singh. Seekree, Surdar Mefaub. Sewarrah, Surdarnee Jussa Kour, Wife of Jussa Sing Birdwan, deceased. Shahabad, Surdar Shair Sing, Surdar Runjeet Singh, Surdar Khan Sing, and the Widow of Khurrut Sing. Sham Ghur, Dewah Singh, and Futteh Sing. Shehadpoor, Surdar Golab Singh, Sheeheed. Tingaur, Surdar Dyah Sing, Sheeheed. Thannesur, Surdareer Jya Koour, and Chund Koour, and Surdar Jummyeel Sing. Toondwal, Surdarnee, Karm Koour, Widow of Metaub Sing, Shuheel. Teera, Mall Deurmo. Ulhoo, Sudar Futteh Sing. Umanly, Bhae Goolab Sing, and Simjeet Sing. Ullagurh, Surdar Goordial Sing. Zeeampore, Pertaup Sing. F. List of undermentioned Protected Hill States under my superintendence with the estimated extent of Country belonging to each, supposed Revenue, Population, Armed Force, and Amount of Contribution to the Company's Treasury, agreeably to Mr. Secretary Swinton's Letter to the Address of the Agent Governor General at Dehly under date the 23d July, 1832. Note. The independent chieftains of Bundlecund have, during a long course of years, and at the periods when the British Government was engaged in protracted warfare with other states, invariably shewn their attachment to British supremacy. During the Mahratta war of 1817-18, the protection of the numerous passes, or Ghauts, into the province, was entrusted to them. During the Burmese war, not merely were offers to assist with their forces submitted, but the commissariat department was materially aided by the voluntary assistance received from them. During the siege of Bhurtpore, supplies of grain were forwarded from the states nearest the scene of action to the army; and when the Fort of Calpee was attacked by a rebel subject of Salown, the Sumpthur troops, at the request of this office, immediately proceeded to the protection of Koonah, whilst the forces of Oorchah, Jhansi and Duttiah advanced, on the agent's application, to effect his reduction. In the fidelity of the Bondelah states, implicit confidence may be reposed; their attachment to British rule originates in self interest. Under no previous government did they at any time enjoy their possessions free from all demand, either of service or tribute. Their union for the attainment of a common object, is a chimera. Between the Boondelahs and Mahrattahs a deeply-rooted antipathy has long existed, and time has not diminished it; Jhansi would fall an easy prey to Oorchah and Duttiah, and Jaloun could not support its existence against the aggressions of the Juggut Raj branch of the Chuttersal's family. The several members against one of that family, hold each other in mutual distrust and aversion; and as the portion of the province held by the British Government is not claimed by the Boondelahs, as it formed the undisputed part of the ex-peshwa's possesssions, obtained by the adoption of his ancestor by Chuttersal, they would in all probability commit an aggressive act against it, but would turn their arms against each other, if any general ferment should exist in British India: for each alleges a right to some portion of his neighbour's territory. [This Note was on the official document. R. M. M.] H.-Account of the different Trades carried on at Calcutta, and estimate of the annual amount of sales by each in sicca rupees. Avocations, number of shops, and amount of annual trade. Wholesale merchants in sugar, grain, &c., 216, 53,00,000; retailers of ditto, 105, 1,60,000; wholesale merchants and retailers of piece goods and silk, 574, 42,00,000; retailers of rice, sugar, plantains, &c., 966, 11,50,000; ditto of cowries, 563, 10,50,000; ditto of spices, copper, beetlenuts, &c., 436, 8,00,000; ditto of sweetmeats, 497, 3,75,000; ditto of flour and bran, 292, 3,00,000; ditto of fruit of different kinds, 167, 80,000; ditto of ginger, pepper, turmerick, 197, 76,000; ditto ironsmiths, 161, 1,10,000; ditto of earthen pots, 249, 1,20,000; ditto of beetlenut and beetleleaf, 182, 85,000; ditto of spirituous liquors, 78, 2,00,000; ditto of toddy, 69, 29,000; ditto of flowers, 45, 15,000; ditto and polishers of cocoa nut shells, 39, 28,000; ditto of gunnies, rope, &c., 30, 70,000; ditto of ornaments for the arms of women, 64, 30,000; ditto of shoes, 150, 1,20,000; ditto of diamonds, pearls, &c., 14, 1,45,000; ditto of almonds, raisins, &c., 16, 15,000; ditto of empty bottles, &c., 27, 20,000; ditto of knives, toys, &c., 165, 1,40,000; ditto of broadcloths, 44, 35,000; ditto of doll, pease, &c., 212, 1,85,000; ditto of bricks and brickdust, 16, 85,000; ditto of milk, butter, &c., 111, 85,000; ditto of ground rice, 75, 35,000; ditto of soap and earth for bleaching, 33, 20,000; ditto of tape and cotton rope, 5, 4,000; ditto of beads for the neck, 8, 4,000; ditto of charcoal, 38, 30,000; ditto of rose water, otto of roses, &c., 35, 20,000; ditto of tallow candles, 12, 12,000; ditto of lanterns, 15, 12,000; ditto of red lead, red earth, &c., 2, 4,000; ditto of fowls, ducks, &c., 70, 40,000; ditto of wax and wax candles, 7, 6,000; ditto of paddy, 24, 24,000; ditto of rope, twine, &c., 21, 9,000; ditto of blankets, carpets, &c., 7, 7,000; ditto of coral, beads, &c., 30, 1,60,000; ditto of canvass, dammer, &c., 29, 1,85,000; ditto of tea and coffee, 4, 35,000; manufacturers of silk into lace, &c., 218, 86,000; ditto and retailers of chunam, 48, 14,000; ditto and sellers of oil, 282, 2,25,000; ditto of glass, 2, 2,000; wholesale dealers in chunam, 71, 3,60,000; ditto in broadcloths, &c., 42, 4,50,000; cleaners of rice from the husk, 282, 3,50,000; ditto and sellers of balasore stones, 31, 37,000; ditto of cotton, 25, 13,000; cleaners of brass pots, &c., 21, 7,000; sellers of firewood, 252, 1,12,000; ditto of saul timbers by the piece, 67, 75,000; ditto of tarrol planks, 37, 55,000; ditto of gramsticks, 69, 45,000; ditto of mats and rice, 77, 35,000; ditto of tobacco, 326, 2,25,000; ditto and refiners of charcoal, 12, 4,000; ditto of bhang, 77, 31,000; ditto of killysols, 42, 34,000; ditto of cotton, 65, 90,000; ditto of cheeks for doors, 4, 2,000; ditto of Europe and China articles, 144, 7,50,000; ditto and repairers of musical instruments, 1, 2,000; ditto of straw, 144, 95,000; ditto of bamboos, 46, 20,000; ditto of mats, 36, 22,000; carpenters, 150, 1,10,000; butchers, 92, 70,000; tailors, 232, 2,00,000; dyers, 85, 40,000; gold and silver smiths, 233, 3,50,000; bird sellers, 6, 2,000; printers of chintz, 10, 15,000; sawyers, 10, 5,000; bakers, 47, 43,000; cooks' shops, 12, 7,000; sadlers and shoemakers, 5, 5,000; bookbinders, 11, 6,000; shoemakers (Chinese), 22, 32,000; basket makers, 11, 5,000; seal engravers, 4, 2,000; watch makers, 10, 15,000; coopers, 9, 13,000; cheesemongers, 5, 4,000; booksellers, 2, 20,000; repairers of shawls, muslins, &c., 27, 13,000; makers of artificial fireworks, 7, 7,000; makers and retailers of brass pots, 199, 2,35,000; cutters and retailers of chanks, 47, 46,000; makers and sellers of hooka snakes, 30, 18,000; cutlers and cleaners of swords, 23, 10,000; makers and sellers of tinsel lace, 3, 12,000; potatoe merchants and sundry other avocations, with trifling omissions, estimated at 87, 59,000. Total number of shops, 9,900. Total amount of annual trade, 2,01,00,000. [This estimate was made in the year 1800, and transmitted by Government to the Court of Directors.] I.-General account of the state of Calcutta in 1717. As the Court of Directors may probably wish to have some general account of the state of the town of Calcutta, the following (being extracted from my proposed statistical reports) may be acceptable. The accounts of several respectable natives (collected by my assistant, Mr. Blaquiere) correspond in the following description of Calcutta, in the year 1717, viz.: 1. That the present town was a village appertaining to the Zillah of Nuddee. 2. The houses were scattered about in clusters of 10 or 12 in each, and the inhabitants chicfly husbandmen. 3. A forest existed to the southward of the Chaundpaul Ghaut, which was afterwards removed by degrees. 4. Between Kiddepoor and the forest were two villages, whose inhabitants were invited to settle in Calcutta by the ancient family of the Seals, who were at that time merchants of great note, and very instrumental in bringing Calcutta into the form of a town. 5. The new fort and esplanades are the sites where this forest and the two villages formerly stood. 6. The present old inhabitants of the town recollect a creek, which ran from Chaundpaul Ghaut to Ballia Ghaut. They say that the drain before the government house is where it took its course; and there is a ditch to the south of a garden, at the Bytakkannah, which bears evident traces of the continuation of this creek. 7. There was a small village, consisting of a few straggling houses, surrounded by filthy puddles of water and trees, where the elegant houses at Chouringee now stand. 8. Calcutta may be said to have extended northward as far as the Chitpore Bridge, if uncultivated ground covered with wildernesses may be said to have composed a part of it. There was no high road, and it was dangerous to travel at late hours from robbers infesting the paths. In 1742, a ditch was dug round a considerable part of the present boundaries of Calcutta, to prevent the incursions of the Mahrattas, the expense of which was defrayed by an assessment on the inhabitants of the town. It appears by Major Orme's History of the War in Bengal, that at the time of the capture of Calcutta, in 1756, there were about 70 houses belonging to the English. What are now called the Esplanade, the site of the New Fort, the Course and Chowringee, were even at that period (with all the territory more than 800 yds. to the eastward) a complete jungle interspersed here and there with a few huts, and small parcels of grazing and arable land. Some tolerable idea may be formed of the state of the town of Calcutta in the beginning of 1798, from the two following statements : 1.-Statement of the Number and Value of Hou ses, Shops and Habitations in the Town of Calcutta, for the purpose of levying a tax of 5 per cent. on the 2. Rents per mensem, and number of Houses and other Habitations in the Town of Calcutta -500rs. and above, 23 houses; 400rs. to 500rs., 22; 300rs. to 400rs., 66; 250rs. to 300rs., 56; 200rs. to 250rs., 80; 175rs. to 200rs., 39; 150rs, to 175rs, 62; 125rs. to 150rs., 40; 100rs. to 125rs., 143; 80rs. to 100rs., 94; 60rs. to 80rs., 185; 40rs. to 60rs., 504; 20rs. to 40rs. 1,621; 10rs. to 20rs., 2,737; 5rs. to 10rs., 3,066; small brick houses, shops, and godowns, 9,235; straw and mud houses, and huts, 60,787. Grand total, 159,760. These statements do not include the Old and New Forts, and many houses, &c, the property of the Honourable Company. My estimate, therefore, is about 20 per cent. more than the valuation formed by the officers of police, and is, I believe, as correct as possible. [The present statement I found in manuscript in a K.-Deaths from Cholera within the Town of Years. Hindoos. Mahommedans. Total. 1832 1406 168 1574 1833 3547 529 4076 1834 2930 552 3482 1835 1356 286 1642 The value of the houses and huts, with the ground appertaining to the same, is stated to be, 3,02,96,000rs. The value agreeable to the assessment by the officers of police, and corrected to the 1st. February 1798, L.-Villages and Houses of Lower Bengal. (Extract Bengal Judicial Consultation, 10th November, 1825.) Returns from different Zillahs. "Calcutta Englishman," 21 May 1838. [N. B.-This, I should think, cannnot be said to be extremely accurate, as many deaths must occur of which there is no record.-R. M. M.] |