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Census of India 1931: Cochin: Report and Tables

1932

From 1881 onwards the census of the State has been taken synchronously with the rest of India the procedure laid down by the Census Commissioner for India for the decennial Indian census being followed here also ; and the Census Reports of Cochin have since 19o1 regularly formed one of the volumes of the Census of India series issued under the general editorship of the all-India Commissioner. [...] The census of the Forest tracts whic-h could not be taken synchronously because of the wandering habits of the hill tribes and of the vast-extent of the area to be traversed by the census officers was conducted leisurely between the 15th and 24th of February. [...] 7. Imperial Table I gives the area and population of the State and of its divisions while the Subsidiary Tables at the end of this Chapter contain the salient features of the statistics relating to the density and movement of the population. [...] The low rate was attributed to the unfavourable conditions of the closing years of the period conditions resulting from the post-war economic depression and the scarcity consequent on it the partial failure of.the monsoon rains for more than one season and the poor harvests and distress caused thereby and the ravages of small-pox cholera and influenza epidemics. [...] And we have to infer that the material resources of the State have not yet been taxed to their utmost capacity that they are at least for the present elastic enough to bear the strain of this high rate of increase and support the rising numbers in tolerable comfort and that the adverse effects of over-crowding and of the pressure of population on the means of subsistence have not hitherto been f
government politics public policy
Pages
459
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xii T.K. Menon view
Chapter I.—Distribution and Movement of the Population
1-20 T.K. Menon view
Chapter II.—The Population of Cities Towns and Villages
21-27 T.K. Menon view
Chapter III.—Birth-Place and Migration
28-47 T.K. Menon view
Chapter IV—Age
48-63 T.K. Menon view
Chapter V—Sex
64-69 T.K. Menon view
Chapter V.—Size And Sex Constitution Of Families
70-86 T.K. Menon view
Chapter VI—Civil Condition
87-113 T.K. Menon view
Chapter VII—Infirmities
114-123 T.K. Menon view
Chapter VIII—Occupation
124-150 T.K. Menon view
Chapter VIII—Occupation
151-186 T.K. Menon view
Chapter IX—Literacy
187-218 T.K. Menon view
Chapter X—Language
219-228 T.K. Menon view
Chapter XI—Religion
229-247 T.K. Menon view
Chapter XII.—Race Tribe and Caste
248-276 T.K. Menon view
Appendices
277-307 T.K. Menon view
Part II A — Imperial Tables
i-lxxx T.K. Menon view
Part II B —State Tables
i-xxxvi T.K. Menon view