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Census of India 1951. West Bengal Sikkim & Chandernagore

1953

T. Colebrooke IV Extract from An Account of the District or Zila of Dinajpur—By Francis Buchanan Hamilton on the population of the district and the causes which operate on its increase or diminution. V Extract from An Account of the District or Zila of Dinajpur—By Francis Buchanan Hamilton on the Land Tenures of Dinajpur. VI On recent changes in the Delta of the Ganges—James Fergusson. VII Pro [...] The following Statement VI.1 showing the distribution of the strength of each' major religious community per 10 000 of the total population arranged for rural and urban areas shows how the Hindu the Muslim the Christian the Sikh. [...] the Buddhist the Jain and the remaining communities stand in relation to one another in strength in the State as a whole in the villages and in the towns. [...] In the first half of the decade the Second World War which transformed Bengal almost into a theatre of war and changed the composition and extent of its migrants and the famine and epidmics of 1943-44 had far-reaching effects on the State's population industry and agriculture. [...] A series of communal riots followed in the beginning of the second half of the decade which cuminated in the partition of the province of Bengal into two portions in August 1947.
government politics public policy
Pages
540
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i A. Mitra view
Frontmatter
i-xii A. Mitra view
Chpter VI
1-90 A. Mitra view
Subsidiary Tables
91-166 A. Mitra view
Reprints and Special Notes
167-304 A. Mitra view
Brief Accounts of Some of the Natural Resources and Industries of the State(with two Bibliographies)
305-517 A. Mitra view
Backmatter
i-iii A. Mitra view