o 13 deg. 53' N.,
and from latitude 60 deg. 43' to 76 deg. 30' E. British districts, including
Sind, contain a total superficial area of 124,465 square miles, and a
population, according to the census of 1872, of 16,349,206 souls. The
Native States cover a surface of nearly 71,769 square miles, with a
population of 8,831,730 inhabitants, which gives, for the surface,
a total of 196,234 square miles, and for the population a total
of 25,180,936 inhabitants. The State of Baroda is no longer under
the direct administration of Bombay, but under that of the Supreme
Government; we may, however, consider it from the geographical point of
view as forming a part of Bombay. The Portuguese possessions of Goa,
Damman, and Diu, with a superficial area of 1,146 square miles and
a population of nearly 428,955 souls, are equally comprised in the
limits of the Presidency. See Imp. Gazetteer of India, vol. ii. p. 172
(Ed. of 1881).

[66] See for the explanation of this word, Sir John Strachey, India,
pref. and trans. of J. Harmand, chap. vi. p. 145, Paris, 1892.

[67] See Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., Bombay 1885 to 1890,
a study in Indian Administration. London, 1892.

[68] The whole population of India comes to 287,223,431: Brahmins,
207,731,727; aboriginal tribes, 9,280,467; Sikhs, 190,783; Jains,
1,416,633; Zoroastrians, 89,904; Buddhists, 7,131,361; Jews,
17,194; Christians, 2,284,380; Mussulmans, 58,321,164; diverse races,
42,763. See Statistical Abstract relating to British India from 1883-84
to 1892-93, 28th November, London, 1894. Distribution of Population
according to Religion, Sex and Civil Condition, &c., p. 26, No. 14.

[69] Parsis, 76,774; Hindoos, 21,440,957; Mussulmans, 4,390,995;
Christians, 170,009; Jains, 555,209; Jews, 13,547; aboriginal tribes,
292,023; Buddhists, 674; Sikhs, 912; Brahmo-Samaj, 34; diverse
races, 51. In no part of India are religions and sects so mixed up
as in the Presidency of Bombay. See Ethnology of India by Mr. Justice
Campbell, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society. Supplementary number,
vol. xxxv. pt. ii. pp. 140, &c., &c.

[70] The Zoroastrian Calendar for the year of Yezdezard 1262, 16th
September, 1892, to 15th September, 1893; printed and published at the
Bombay Vartman Press, by Muncherji Hosunji Jagosh, 1892 (Gujerati). The
tables are very carefully done; an inquisitive reader will find there
the enumeration of the Parsi population of Bombay according to the
different distr