§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for India, seeing that the property belonging to Ramchandra Rao, one of the six sons of Bapu Raghunath, Dewan of Dhar, was confiscated in November, 1857, on account of Ramchandra's alleged complicity in the Mutiny, will ho ascertain what has become of the property belonging to the other sons of Bapu Raghunath, and why the claims of his other descendants, viz., Krishna Rao Raghunath, son of a younger brother of Ramchandra, and Shanka Rao Bhagwant, grandson of another brother of Ramchandra, are not recognised by the Dhar State.
| 1880. | 1901. | |||
| Food crop area. | Produce of food grains. | Food crop area. | Produce of food grains. | |
| Acres† | Tons. | Acres.† | Tons. | |
| Madras | 26,244 | 8,897 | 27,532 | 10,206 |
| Bombay and Sindh | 21,500 | 4,086 | 23,223 | 6,092 |
| Bengal | 48,500 | 17,460 | 50,596 | 24,407 |
| N. W. Provinces and Oudh | 31,450 | 11,322 | 35,912 | 12,250 |
| Punjab | 88,900 | 5,446 | 21,316 | 5,966 |
| Central Provinces | 13,000 | 2,750 | 14,000 | 3,000 |
| Lower Burma, Assam, etc. | 6,920 | 4,347 | 9,850 | 6,266 |
| Total | 166,514 | 54,308 | 182,429 | 68,187 |
| * See(4) Debates, CVII., 1342;CN., 1372. | †(The figures are in thousands, 000 omitted.) |
§ counties and poor law unions, of the various districts scheduled as congested in Ireland, in the following form:—
§ (Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I must refer the hon. Member to my previous answers in May and July last to his questions on the subject.*