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Census of India 1951 — India: Report

1953

Finally there is the profound change in the whole conception of the responsibilities of the State in respect of the supply and distribution of grains the breakdown of free trade the Bengal Famine and the development of 'state trading-system' on which crores of our people depend to-day. [...] Acknowledgements— Though the CONSTITUTION lays the duty of census -taking exclusively on the Central Government the census is carried out for the benefit of the entire State which according to the CONSTITUTION "includes the Government and Parliament of India and the Government and the Legislature of each of the States and all local or other authorities"xv within the territory of India or under th [...] Much material was specially compiled for me by the Surveyor General of India ; the Director General of Observatories Meteorological Department ; the Director of Geological Survey of India; the Inspector-General of Forests ; the Economic and Statistical Adviser Ministry of Food and Agriculture ; the Statistical Adviser Indian Council of Agricultural Research ; and the Head of the Division of Che [...] Table of Contents PAGES PART I-A —REPORT INTRODUCTION. TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. xvii —xxxi Chapter I : The Land and the People-1951 WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA" I A — LAND AREA PER CAPITA 2-5 The area of land and the number of the people — Degree of accuracy of the data — Sample verification of the 1951 Census count and the margin of error — Territory covered — Land area per capita — Distrbution of [...] D— GROWTH OF FOOD SHORTAGE. 157-175 Food controls—Development of a system of state trading in foograins — Gigantic scale of operation of the system — Significance of the emergence of the system in relation to the growth of population and cultivation before and since 1921 — Evolution of 'free trade' — Maintnance of free trade in foodgrains during famines — Recommendations of the Famine Com
government politics public policy
Pages
281
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xlvi R.A Gopalaswami view
Chapter I The Land and the People—1951
1-40 unknown view
Chapter II The Pattern of Living—I951
41-xxxi unknown view
Chapter III Livelihood Pattern—1951
89-xxi unknown view
Chapter IV Before and Since 1921
121-176 unknown view
Chapter V The Prospect—1981
177-178 unknown view