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Census of India 1911. India. Part I. Report

1913

Olialley had an excetionally difficult task owing to the territorial redistribtion which was announced This involved the separation at a late stage of tabulation of the statistics of the new province of Bihar and Orissa and the amalgamation of those of the rest of Bengal with the statistics of the Eastern Bengal districts which had been compiled at Dacca by Mr. [...] The flora of India is more varied than that of any other area of the same extent in the Eastern Hemisphere if not in the world ; and the species of animals"2 CHAPTER I.--DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION. [...] The brave and sturdy peasant of the Punjab wIlo is so marked a contrast to the cultivator of the steamy delta of the Ganges owes his physical superiority not only to his ancestry but also to the arid climate and comparatively hard life which have hitherto characterized the land of the five rivers and to the constant operation there of the law of the survival of the fittest. [...] Deflected from Sind by the action of the earth's rotation it passes on to the Eastern Punjab where it intermingles with the current from the Bay and combines with it to gip rain in the east of the Punjab and Rajputana and in the Ik estern Himalayas. [...] Although the greater part of India depends mainly on the rainfall of the south-west monsoon there are great local variations in the amount of precipittion and in the regularity of the supply.
government politics public policy
Pages
486
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii E.A Gait view
Introduction
i-xi E.A Gait view
Chapter I. Distribution of the Population
1-54 E.A Gait view
Chapter II. Movement of Population
55-88 E.A Gait view
Chapter III. Birthplace
89-112 E.A Gait view
Chapter IV. Religion
113-146 E.A Gait view
Chapter V. Age
147-204 E.A Gait view
Chapter VI. Sex
205-234 E.A Gait view
Chapter VII. Marriage
235-290 E.A Gait view
Chapter VIII. Education
291-318 E.A Gait view
Chapter IX. Language
319-342 E.A Gait view
Chapter X. Infirnities
343-364 E.A Gait view
Chapter XI. Caste Tribe and Race
365-396 E.A Gait view
Chapter XII. Occupation
397-450 E.A Gait view
Appendix
i-xii E.A Gait view
Index
xiii-xviii E.A Gait view