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Census of India 1951 — West Bengal Sikkim & Chandernagore

1953

232 V Extract from An Account of the District of Zila of Dinajpur—By Francis Buchanan Hamilton on the Land Teniires of Dinajpsr. 237 VI On recent changes in the Delta of the Ganges—James Fergusson. 251 VII Progress of Electricity Supply in West Bengal—Manoranjan Datta. 272 VIII Land UtIlisation in West Bengal During the Last Thirty Years—Bimal.Chandra -Sinha. [...] The following Statement VI.1 showing the distribution of the strengtof 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. [...] SECTION 5 MARITAL STATUS RATIOS Subsidiary Tables VI(7) and VI(8) give the marital status of 1 000 persons of each sex of the general population in 1951 and compare the statistics with those of previous censuses and also give the age distribution of 1 000 marred persons of each sex and compare the statistics with those of 1941. [...] On the eve of the tabulation of mother tongues in the census of 1951 a list of languages and dialects under the families sub-families groups and sugroups was circulated among the Deputy Superintendents in charge of Tabulation Offices for their guidance. [...] 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
530
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v A. Mitra view
Chpapter VI
1-35 unknown view
A Note on the Recording of Mother Tongues of Certain Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes
36-40 unknown view
A Note on the Maternity Data of Married Women in Rural Areas of West Bengal
41-70 unknown view
A Note on Vital Index for West Bengal
71-90 Jatindra Datta, A MITRA view
Subsidiary Tables
91-166 unknown view
Reprints and Special Notes
167-304 unknown view
Brief Accounts of Some of the Natural Resources and Industries of the State (With two Bibliographies)
305-520 unknown view