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Census of India 1931 Vol. I India Part I-Report

1933

On the other hand the figures of urban population in Gujarat and of civil condition must be admitted to be below the previous standard of accuracy a degeneration due in the one case to Congress activities and in the other primarily to the indirect influence of the Sarda Act but also perhaps in some degree to the very same change in the method of sorting andINTRODUCTION. [...] The statistics and the tables do not of course cover those parts of the peninsula which are not parts of the British Empire that is to say Afghanistan Nepal Bhutan and the French and Portuguese possessions the area and population of which together with the rate of increase since 1921 where available are shown in Pecentage the marginal table. [...] Obviously the density of the population is in immediate relationship to the conformation of the soil to the rainfall and to the crops all of which are inter-dependent but since the boundaries of adminitrative units run counter to the divisions of nature any treatment of the populae tion according to natural divisions is likely to involve the dissipation of figures returned by administrative [...] the densest areas—those of Cochin of eastern Bengal the north-east of the United Provinces ttncl of Bihar the rainfall is heavier than in any other part of India except Assam where large tracts of hills and forest reduce the population in proportion to the area and in southern Burma where there is considerable room for the increase of population. [...] This illustrates the fact that the density in India is so variable that it is impossible to consider the question of movement of the population without going into the question of the distribution and variation of density for density of population in India depends not on industry as in the United Kingdom but on agriculture and is greatest of course in the most fertile areas.
government politics public policy
Pages
548
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii J.H. Huton view
Introduction
ix-xvii J.H. Huton view
Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of Population
1-43 J.H. Huton view
Chapter II. Urban and Rural
44-61 J.H. Huton view
Chapter III. Birth-Place and Migration
62-79 J.H. Huton view
Chapter IV. Age
80-194 J.H. Huton view
Chapter V. Sex
195-214 J.H. Huton view
Chapter VI. Civil Condition
215-252 J.H. Huton view
Chapter VII. Infirmities
253-272 J.H. Huton view
Chapter VIII. Occupation
273-323 J.H. Huton view
Chapter IX. Literacy
324-347 J.H. Huton view
Chapter X. Language
348-ii J.H. Huton view
Chapter XI. Religion
379-424 J.H. Huton view
Chapter XII. Caste Tribe and Race
425-470 J.H. Huton view
Appendices
471-508 J.H. Huton view
Index
509-518 J.H. Huton view