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CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 POWINDAH CENSUS N. W. F. PROVINCE AND BALUCHIST AN PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI FRINTED :BY THE MANAGER, GOVERNMEN'11 OF INDIA PRESS, SIMLA, 1942 Price ; R8. 3-6-0 or 58. 614 List of Agents in India and Burma from whom Government of India Publications are available. ABBOTTABAD-Englisb Book Store. KARACHI- Aero Stores. AGRA- English Bookstall. English Book Depot, Taj Road. Indian Army Book Depot, Dayalbagh. Standard Bookstall. KARACHI (SADAR)-Manager, Sind Government AHMEDABAD-H. L. College of Commerce Co-opera- Book Depot and Record Office. tive Store, Ltd. LAHORE- .A.1MER-Banthiya & Co., Ltd., Station Road. Kansil & Co., Messrs. N. C., 9, Commercial Building.~, AKOLA-Bakshi, Mr. M. G. The Mall. Malhotra &, Co., Messrs. U. P., Post Box No. 94. ALLAHABAD- Minerva Book Shop, Anarkali Street. Central Book Depot, 44, Johnstonganj. Punjab Religious Book Society. Kitabistan, 17-A, City Road. Rama Krishna & Sons, Anarkali. 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CONTENTS PA.GB :';OTE BY THE CENSUS COMMISSIONER FOR INDIA AND TOTAL FIGURES - 1 ); ORTH WEST FnONTIER PROVINCE - 5 ] )ALUCHlS"TAN .. - 15 CENSUS OF 1941 POWINDAH ROUTES TO INDIA I/) l j o .1 z ,.J - \ I THE POWINOAH CENSUS Autumn I(}40 India.'s north-west frontier i~ well-known oyer the asses but in better body than many plains animal,,, most of the world and conjures up generally a spec and much better than could have been expected 011 t_acle of naked hills, dry valleys, fierce tribesmen, looking at the kind of country they had come through. ambushes and intermittent warfare generally. In I saw a clerk in the P. A.'s tehsil office buy a dog for fact to adopt A~erican diction, the common idea of Rs. 5 from a Powindah youth; apparently this i)'; it is of a " bad land ". Actually however along with a regular practice and the best watch dogs of tht· these manifestations of truculence it has offered N. W. F. P. are bought from these Powindahs. Thi~ probably for centuries the spectacle of an annual particular dog had a magnificent soft coat but did peaceful immigration which in our days is summed not seem to like Landi Kota!. up in the useful though not strictly accurate term I had expected to see bigger packs on the animal!" "" Powindah". Hunger, like the mosquito a.nd the and indeed to see a far more pronounced merchandise electric current, knows no frontiers and this annual aspect. A good many it is true bore the double incursion has· its origin broadly in pressure of popu sacks of pomegranates, dried fruits, etc., while onp lation driving people to more favoured lands where man had carpets (not very good); but many so far as work and food fol' man and beast alike can be I could see carried nothing but the family's food and obtained. animals' fodder. The lorry has given the Powindahs . These qafilas or caravanfl are a striking sight, a severe blow and has deprived them of much of the and figure no doubt in many a tourist's photograph remunerative transport traffic they used to monO'· album. The massive hairy camels, quite different polise. One felt that there was little aspect of com~ from the Punjab or Sind type, the black-clad, free paratively prosperous traders here and that immigra striding women, the often rosy-cheeked children, tion was largely a matter of poverty. One could the black tents, all make up an extremely picturesque however detect differences in economic level from sccne. And personally, as I watched the enumera the nature and quality of the animals. tion of a huge qajila at Landi Kotal in November 1940, The physical type of the immigrants was rather I felt that there was an enormous amount here that shorter and stockier than I had expected and certain· would repay investigation from the point of view 1y the long stringy type was absent. The men wcre of social history, tradition and the economic urge. however generally of excellent physique and thn 1 should have liked in fact to travel with one of these children looked extremely healthy. One chil(l t Ijafilas for a week or two. noticed had hair of wheat colour while one boy hail All ages were represented and I noticed one slip a rosy face that might have comc from my oWll which bore the impressive tale of 100 years. Un country. fortunately I did not see this man but should It is regular practicc in war-time for ingrcss to have liked to, as despite his advanced years he had a belligerent's territory to be closely scrutini~ed yl't ,leclared himself bound for Peshawar in order to take here was this annlial incursion about which, apart casual labour. Actually, while 100 is just a round from very general estimates, little was known. When Khot at a very old man, the aae gamut may run I came out in the autumn of 1939 I was asked whethcr ,-.;urprisingly high for such an a~duous trek; for I the census could do anything and decided at once Iloticed quite a number of people both men and women, that it could. Funds were limited but in any case (If great phy;:;ical activity but yet well on in years. the proper method was to work through agencieii (lne grandmother playing a most active part in alrently familiar to the Powindahs and through unloading a camel herself spoke to me. pweesses to which also they were accust.omed. Thus it has been a regular practice for grazing fees to b(~ All kinds of animals were repr'3sented, camel~, (,xen, donkeys, goats, sheep, fowls, dogs. Onn pa j.J by t.hose bringing in animals to Indian camel bore on its back a quite recently born calf pastures and the enumeration system was therefore round which, also on the camel's back, some pul based on the posts at which these checks or collectionH ]('ts were flapping their wings, while on the second were made. Wherever possible the actual men, camel in the train repo.,ed a small child surveying clerks, etc., operating at the frontier posts were used \\ ith interest the dusty scene around him. Camels for the new duty, supplemented however in to a certain !leemed to be of all ages, mature, young adults, three extent by men recruited for the purpose.