PAHANG, pfi-Iffing,'. The largest of the Federated Malay States (q.v.), situated on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula and bounded by the independent native States of Kelantan and Trengganu on the north, the China Sea on the east, the States of Negri Sembilan and Johor on the south, and the protected States of Perak and Selangor on the west (Slap: Burma, D 6). Its area is officially estimated at 14,000 square miles. It is a thickly wooded and partly moun tainous region traversed by the shallow Pahang Fiver, which is formed by the confluence of the Jelai and the Tembeling. The coast is mostly sandy and indented at the mouths of the rivers, which arc accessible only during high tide. The climate is cooler than on the western coast and the soil well adapted for agriculture. The State is noted for its gold deposits. which are success fully worked by European mining companies, electricity being used as the motive power. Tin lodes are extensively worked along the Pahang River. The Malays are chiefly engaged in agri culture, while for mining Chinese are mostly employed. The financial condition of the State is unsatisfactory, hut the revenue is gradually increasing. While Pahang is the largest of tho
Federated Malay States in area. it is the least populated. The census of 1901 gives the popula tion as 84.113, including 134 Europeans, Ameri cans, and Australians, 73.462 Malays and other natives (including 7340 aborigines), 8695 Chi nese, and 122; Tamils and other natives of India. A British resident was first appointed to the Sultan of Pahang in 1888, and the State joined the Federation in 1895. The seat of administra tion is Kuala Lipis.
PAHARIA, -1M.'re-a. An alternative name for the Shiler, of the Rajmahal Hills in Bengal, one of the northern Dravidian peoples. Farther south in the same region the Mal-Paharias, whose affinities are not very clear. One of the sections of the population of .Nepal, speaking a neo-Aryan dialect, is also caned Paharia. Some account of the Dravidian Paharia will he found in Dalton, Ifrseriptire Ethnology of Bengal (Cal cutta, 1872), and the works of a general char acter relating to the Dravidian peoples. See DRAVIDIANS.