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Census of India 1931 — General

1932

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. [...] The statistics and the tables do not of course cover those parts of the peninsula which are not parts of the British Empire that is to say Afghanistan Nepal Bhutan and the French and Portuguese possessions the area and population of which together with the rate of increase Per. [...] Obviously the density of the population is in immediate relationship to the conformation of the soil to the rainfall and to the crops all of which are inter-dependent but since the boundaries of adminitrative units run counter to the divisions of nature any treatment of the popultion according to natural divisions is likely to involve the dissipation of figures returned by administrative [...] It has been already mentioned that the density of the population varies largely according to the rainfall and it may here be pointed out that in the densest areas—those of Cochin of eastern Bengal the north-east of the United Provinces and of Bihar the rainfall is heavier than in any other part of India except Assam where large tracts of hills and forest reduce the population in proportion to t [...] This illustrates the fact that the density in India is so variable that it is impossible to consider the question of movement of the population without going into the question of the distribution and variation of density for density of population in India depends not on industry as in the United Kingdom but on agriculture and is greatest of course in the most fertile areas.
government politics public policy
Pages
546
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xv 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—Birtn-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-ii 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