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Census of India 1901 — The Lower Provinces of Bengal and their Feudatories: Report

1902

the procedure adopted in connection with the taking of the Census and the compilation of the results has been given in a separate report but it may be interesting to note briefly a few of the more important facts connected with the operational Owing to various circumstances of which the dearth of literate persons is one of the chief a Census is a matter of special ARRANGEMENTS POE THE ENMERA [...] This great Province is bounded on the north by the Himalayas on the east by Assam and the range which divides Assam from Burma; on the south by Madras and the Bay of Bengal; and on the west by the Central Provinces and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. [...] It contains tracts of greatly varying physical features including the alluvial plains of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and the deltas of these great rivers the crystalline plateaux of Chota Nagpur and the Tributary States and the hills stretching from their south-eastern extremity northwards to the Ganges at Raj mahal the narrow strip of alluvium comprising the Orissa Commissionership and la [...] It is thus probable that a great part of the Bay of Bengal was once dry land and that the gradual raising of the surface of the country by the action of the rivers has been discounted by successive subsidences which have been accompanied by upheavals elsewhere.* It is believed that the formation of the depression along which the Padma now flows was connected with the elevation of the Tippera Hil [...] Under the Moghals the capital of the country was the town of Bihar in the south of the Patna district and from this town the whole province took its name.
government politics public policy
Pages
580
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xi E.A Gait view
Chapter I. Distribution of the Population
1-38 unknown view
Chapter II. Variation in the Population
39-126 unknown view
Chapter III. Migration
127-150 unknown view
Chapter IV. Religion
151-208 unknown view
Chapter V.Age
209-234 unknown view
Chapter VI. Sex
235-246 unknown view
Chapter VII. Marriage
247-278 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Infirmities
279-296 unknown view
Chapter IX. Education
297-310 unknown view
Chapter X. Language
311-346 unknown view
Chapter XI. Caste
347-460 unknown view
Chapter XII. Occupations
461-506 unknown view
Appendices
i-lxiii unknown view