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CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME XII SIND TABLES by H. T. LAMBRICK, I.C.S. Superintendent of Census Operations, Sind PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICAT10NS, DELHI PRINTED BY THE MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, SIMLA 1942 CO.l. XII. 41 Price: Rs, 10-10-0 or 168. 60,. 290 List of Agents in India. and Burma from whoin Government of India Publications are available. .ABBOTTABAD-English Book Store. KARACHI- Aero Stores. AGRA- English Bookstall. English Book Depot, Taj Road. Standard Bookstall. Indian Army Book Depot, Daya.lbagb. KARACHI (SADAR)-Manager, Sind Government AHMEDABAD-H. L. College of Commerce Co.opera- Book Depot and Record Office. tive Store, Ltd. LAHORE- AJMER-Banthiya & Co., Ltd., Station Road. Kansil & Co., Messrs. N. C., 9, Commercial Buildings, The Mall. AKOLA-Bakshi, Mr. M. G. Malhot.ra & Co., Messrs. U. P., Post Box No. 9.f.. ALLAHABAD- Minerva. Book Shop, Anarkali Street. Central Book Depot, 44, Johnstonganj. Punjab Religious Book Society. Kitabistan 17-A, City Road. 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NOTE The census enumeration was carried out in full according to plan but the Government of India decided to restrict the tabulation for British India. Consequently the tables in this volume cover less than half the contemplated range and offer in effect only the distribution of the population by community and by pro~ , 'Vince or state, district, tehsil ~nd town. Opportunity has been taken however to sort wherever possible the 1/50 random sample taken in every area. 2. The slips in which the remaining unsorted information is to be found are stored in each province against a possible reopening of tabulation in happier circumstances. CONTENTS IMPERIAL TABLES PAGE I-Area, houses and population , .. ·. 1 n~Variation in population during fifty years .. 5 III-Towns and villages classified by popUlation ·. 11 IV-Cities classified by population with variation since 1891 ·. .. 15 V-Towns arranged. territorially with population by communities 19 25 :XIII-Community XIV-Variation in population of seleoted tribes .. 31 PROVINCIAL TABLES I-Area and :p6pulation of ta:Iukas .. ... " 41 lI-PopuIation of distriots and talukas by communities and literacy 47 ·SAMPLE TABLES 60 VI-Birthplace 62 'VII-Age and civil condition .. 69 VIII-Means of livelihood 71 XI-Lit.eracy by community and age ·. " . 76-77 ~II-Mother-tonglle •• ·. 82 Reproduction tables •• .. 93 Karachi city tables .. ·. '0 • .. .. 1 I-AREA, HOUSES AND POPULATION 1. Area.-It will be observed that the 1941 figure for the total area of the province differs from that given in the corresponding table for 1931. No change in the external boundaries of the province has taken place, and the difference i8 simply the effect of recent revision operations by the Survey of India. Considerable changes in the internal divisions of Sind have occurred since 1931, due to the creation of a new district, Dadu. It was formed of parts of the old districts of LarJs_al!~~p':'gj(arachi ; the new Larkana. district absorbed part of the old Upper Sind Frontier district, whilet1ie latter -gainoo some trifling areas from Sukkur and the old Larkana district. These changes make comparison with the statistics of former years a matter of considerable difficulty, as the boundaries of a number of talukas have undergone alteration. 2. House.-In 1921, Mr. Sedgwick the then Bombay-Sind Provincial Superintendent of Census observed " The Census House is a hopeless hybrid between the family and the building". This I consider to be in great measure inevitable, owing to the diversity in the manner of life among the population. The definitions adopted fer the Sind census of 1941 were a3 follows :- Building.-" A roofed structure, made of any materials, which is likely to remain in existence on the same site during the census period, whether used for purposes residential or non-residential: being under one undivided roof, or under two or more roofs connected inter-se by a subsidiary roof ." House.-" A building or p::trt of a building \vhich is and is likely to remain during the census period, a dwelling regularly inhabited by a hum'Ln being or a family living together in one cemmon mess, with their dependents and resident servants." . It cannot be said that these definitions were completely satisfactory. An enumerator brought to my notice the case of a family who regularly lived under a large tree, surrounded by kanats ; and the degree of permanence 011 the spot of H buildings", and the degree of permanence of their habitation, often proved baffling questions. On the whole, however, the main object of recording separately the essentially house-dwelling popula tion and the essentially fluid or nomad population may be considered to have bBen achieved. The total number of persons recorded as houseless was 80,689, or 1· 8 per cent of the entire population. These elements include seasonal and other temporary immigrants from the countries to the north-west and south-east; fakirs of many descriptions; and wandering tribes such as Ods, Bhats, Karias (wandering blacksmiths) and 'V" agris. Three per cent of the population in the districts subject to seasonal immigration were recorded as " houseless ", the average in other districts being 1t%. Average population of a " house ".-As indicated above, a " house" might be anything from a town mansion occupied by a joint family comprising thirty or forty souls, to the" pish "-mat shelter of a Baloch herdsman. The average number of persons per house in British Sind was a little under five in the urban areas, and 5·8 in the rural areas. The latter show a higher rate than the former in every district: and it is also noteworthy that it is higher in the Upper Sind districts than in those of Lower Sind, attaininfJ" the hiull a verage of 7·7 in the rural area of Upper Sind Frontier district. 1:) 0 This is probably dUG to the tendency am'Jllg rural Muslims, p:1rticularly Balochis, for a family to continue to live together after the sons have grown up and married. In Khairpur State the average in both urban and rural areas is higher than the average in British Sind, being respectively 5·7 and 6- 3 persons per house.