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Census of India 1931 — India: Report

1933

In the case of Ahmadabad the census was not completed and the number actually enumerated was estimated to be some seventy-five to seventy-six thousand short of the real total ; according to the census since taken by the Ahmadabad Municipality itself the deficiency was nearly the double of my estimate. [...] The entries in the schedules are copied on to slips omitting the block circle and charge numbers and of course the personal names and are then sorted into sets of labelled pigeon-holes and counted for the figures which constitute the tables. [...] The conception of the social maps was due to a scheme for a population map of India evolved by Colonel Tandy in 1921 and here modified and adapted to suit small scale maps and a high density of population ; the idea of the linguistic maps and the record of bilingualism first occurred to me in the course of correspondence with Colonel T. C. Hodson now Wyse Professor of Anthropology in Cambridge. [...] On the other hand the figures of urban population in Gujarat and of civil condition must be admitted to be below the previous standard of accuracy a degeneration due in the one case to Congress activities and in the other primarily to the indirect influence of the Sarda Act but also perhaps in some degree to the very same change in the method of sorting andINTRODUCTION. [...] Naturally any report of the census of so large and diversified an area must if it is to be contained in a volume be of a superficial nature leaving the closer examination of the figures and facts reveaed by enumeration to the reports severally undertaken for each of the Provinces and larger States.
government politics public policy
Pages
546
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xviii J.H. Hutton view
Chapter I.Distribution and Movement of Population
1-43 unknown view
Chapter II.Urban and Rural
44-61 unknown view
Chapter III.Birth-place and Migration
62-79 unknown view
Chapter IV.Age
80-194 unknown view
Chapter V.Sex
195-214 unknown view
Chapter VI.Civil Condition
215-252 unknown view
Chapter VII.Infirmities
253-272 unknown view
Chapter VIII.Occupation
273-323 unknown view
Chapter IX.Literacy
324-347 unknown view
Chapter X.Language
348-i unknown view
Chapter XI.Religion
379-424 unknown view
Chapter XII.Caste Tribe and Race
425-470 unknown view
Appendices
471-508 unknown view
Index
509-518 unknown view