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Census of India 1911. Bombay. Report

1912

Another innovation was the taking of an industrial census the results of which are embodied in Imperial Table XE. The managers of all industrial concerns employing more than 20 hands on the 10th of March were asked to fill in a special schedule which contained details of the caste of the managment of the nature of the power used of the number of each sex employed and whether they were adu [...] The necessity of being near my office in Poona prevented me doing any serious touring and beyond a natural interest in the quaint customs of the wilder tribes of the South of the Presidency I had little ethnographical preparation and was paifully conscious of my ignorance of the subject as well as of the conditions in the Presidency in Sind and Gujarat. [...] Further south the line of the Western Ghats divides the rice growing districts of the Konkan won from the sea by the bow of the mythical hero Parashram from the eastward sloping plains of the Deccan with a scanty and precarious rainfall and from the richer soils of the Karnatak south of and including the wateshed of the river Krishna. [...] For a more detailed description of the physical characteristics of the Presidency the reader is referred to the opening pages of the first volume of the Imperial Gazetteer dealing with Bombay. [...] Owing to the intervention of the range of the Sahiyadris almost at right angles to the path of the monsoon the rainfall varies considerably even in different parts of the same district and especially so on the Eastern slopes of the Ghats.
government politics public policy
Pages
378
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Frontmatter
i-iv P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Introduction
v-ix P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter I.—Distrubution of the Population
1-23 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter II.—Movement of the Population
24-38 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter III.—Migration
39-54 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter IV.—Religion
55-74 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter V.—Age
75-98 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter VI.—Sex
99-i P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter VII.—Civil Condition
113-136 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter VIII.—Education
137-154 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter IX.—Language
155-178 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter X.—Infirmities
179-194 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter XI.—Caste Tribe or Rack
195-310 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view
Chapter XII.—Occupation Oil Means Of Livelihood
311-348 P.J Mead, G. Macgregor view