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CENSUS OE II4DI .>11 VOLUME XVII CENT .tAL IDIA AGENCY REPORT AND TABLES -D 3 o *- CD Major C. E. LUARD, M.A. (Oxon.). I.A. o Superintendent of Census Operations o O CO 0 •+—•0 0 O) 0 I ■u 0 CC V) <L> JC U > “£ o CO = Q_ £ <° r~ c O 0 mp o u <51 > :> . U T TA v_ ; r GOvErNMENT PRINTING, INDIA O I SUPER! k ; N - O c u §J 2 .* ° 0 - T > o ® ■ ;* 2 CO- CENSUS OF INDIA, 1911 VOLUME XVII + - CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY Part I—REPORT Part II—TABLES Agents for the Sale of Books published by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, Calcutta. I n t h e U n it e d K in g d o m . In India and Ceylon— contd. Messrs C o n s t a b le & Co., 10, Orange Street, Leicester The Calcutta School Book and Useful Literature Square, London, W .C . S o c ie ty , 30 9, How Bazar Street, Calcutta. Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 68-74, Messrs. Butterworth & Co. (India), L d ., Calcutta. Carter Lane, E.C. The W eldon Library, 18-5, Chowringhee, Calcutta. 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Manager of the Imperial Book Depdt, 63, Chandney Mr. M artinos Nijhoef, The Hague, Holland. Chauk Street, Delhi. * Manager, East Coast News, Vizagapatam.* Manager, “ The Agra Medical Hall and Co-operative Association, Limited” (Successors to A. J o h n & Co., I n I n d ia a n d C e y l o n . Agra) .* Superintendent, Basel Mission Book and Tract Deposi Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta and Simla. tory, Mangalore.* Messrs. N ew m an & Co., Calcutta. Messrs. P. Varadachary & Co., Madras* Messrs. R. C a m b ra y & Co., Calcutta. Mr. H. L i d d e l l , Printer, etc., 7, South Road, Messrs. S. K. L a i i i r i & Co., Calcutta. Allahabad* Messrs. B. B a n k r je e & Co., Calcutta. Messrs. D. C. A n a n d & S on s, Peshawar.* N.B.— [Those marked with an asterisk (*) are agents for sale of Legislative Department p iblicaHons only.] CENSUS OF INDIA. 1911 VOLUME XVII CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY REPORT AND TABLES BY Major C. E. LUARD, M.A. (Oxon.), I.A. Superintendent o f Census O perations CALCUTTA SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA 1913 TABLE OF CONTENTS. P a r t I .— REPORT. I ntroduction . P a r a . P a g e . Past and Present Census . 1 i Arrangement for Enumeration 2 Ib. Code of Census Procedure 3 ib. Appointment of Census Officers 4 ib. Census Divisions .... 5 ib. House numbering .... 6 ii Instructions, Schools and Conference . 7 ib. Census Calendar .... 8 lii Preliminary Enumeration 9 ib. Notice to Public .... 10 ib. Closing of Public Offices , 11 ib. Special Arrangements 12 ib. The Census ..... 13 ib. Recount ..... 14 iv Provisional Totals .... 15 ib. Final Totals ..... 16 ib. Special Industrial Schedule 17 v Special forms for Railway, Post, Telegraph and Irrigation Departments 18 ib. Census Act and Regulations 19 ib. Certificates of Merits or Sanads 20 ib. Accommodation .... 21 ib. Preparation of Final Totals 22 vi Code of Abstraction, Sorting, Tabulating and Compilation 23 ib. Slip System ..... 24 ib. Checking of entries 25 vii Slip Copying .... 26 ib. The S t a f f ............................................... 27 ib. Sorting ..... 28 ib. Tabulation and Compilation 29 ib. Imperial Tables .... 30 ib. The Report ..... 31 viii Cost ...... 32 ib. Acknowledgments .... 33 ix C h a p t e r I . — D istribution of t h e P o p u l a t io n , I.— General Description o f Central India Agency. Area, Population and Boundary 1 Variations in area since 1901 ib. Difficulty in obtaining correct areas . ib. Natural Divisions adopted ib. II.— Area, Population and Density. General .... 2 Relation of Area and Population ib. Density in Natural Divisions 8 III .— Towns and Villages. Definition 8 4< Towns 9 ib. The Village . 10 6 IV .— Houses and Families. Definition 11 Subsidiary Tables ii CONTENTS. C h a p t e r I t — Movement of Population. Para. P a g e . Introductory ........ 12 10 Variations since 1881 ......... 13 11 Examination of Results . 14 ib. Natural Population . ..... 15 13 Summary ........... 16 ib. Subsidiary Tables . 15 C h a p t e r III.— M i g r a t i o n . Classes of Migration . 17 16 Conditions affecting Migration . 18 ib. Results of Migration . 19 ib. Central India and Foreign Countries ....... 20 ib. Movement in India ......... 21 ib. United Provinces .......... 22 17 Rajputana ........... 23 ib. The Central Provinces and Berars ....... 24 ib. Other Provinces and States . 25 ib. Internal Movements . 26 ib. Summary ..... ..... 27 19 Subsidiary Tables ......... 21 C h a p t e r IV.— R e l i g i o n . Introductory ........... 28 23 Hindus— (General) ......... 29 24 Definition of Hindu ......... 30 ib. Animists ........... 31 26 Variation among Hindus and Animists ..... .32 27 Musalmans ........... 33 ib. Jains ...... ..... 34 28 Christians . 35 29 Missions (General) ......... 36 30 Canadian Presbyterian Mission. ...... 37 ib. Roman Catholic Mission ........ 38 ib. Friends Foreign Mission . ....... 39 31 American Friends Mission ........ 40 ib. Conversion ........... 41 ib. Other Religious Beliefs ......... 42 ib. Race and Sect .......... 43 ib. Summary ........... 44 32 Subsidiary Tables . 34 C h a p t e r V.— A g e , Statistics ........... 45 37 Inaccuracy ........... 46 ib. Detailed Examination ......... 47 38 Mean Age ........... 48 ib. Religion and Age.. .... 49 ib. Caste and Age ......... 50 39 Fecundity ........... 51 ib. Subsidiary Tables . 40 C h a p t e r VI.— S e x . General ........... 52 50 Sex and Locality . 53 51 Sex and Religion .......... 54 ib. Sex and Age ........... 55 52 Proportion of the Sexes ...... 56 ib. Sex and Caste .......... 57 ib. Sex and Ceremony ......... 58 53 Subsidiary Tables . 55 C h a p t e r VII.— Civil Condition. Introductory . .... 59 59 General Statistics .......... 60 ts Mai*riage and Religion . ...... 61 60 Religion and Locality . .....* 62 61 Child Marriage . .... 63 62 Caste and Marriage ......... 64 ib. Birth Customs . » 65 63 Terms of Relationship ..... ... 66 64 Subsidiary Tables 69 CONTEXTS. Ill C h a p t e r Y I I I . — E d u c a t io n . P a r a . P a g e . Scope of Return ..... .... 67 76 English ....... .... 68 ib. Religious Distribution ......... 69 ib. Locality ........... 70 77 Comparative . 71 78 Education by Caste ......... 72 79 Comparison of Castes . • 73 ib. Subsidiary Tables . 80 C h a p te r I X . — L a n g u a g e . Statistics ........... 74 86 Details of Dialects ....... 75 ib. Distribution ........... 76 87 Classification . ......... 77 88 Province of Aryan Tongues . • • * • • 78 ib. Local Shibboleths ..... ... 79 89 Subsidiary Tables . • 90 C h a p t e r X . — I n f ir m it ie s . Statistics ........... 80 94 Accuracy of Return ......... 81 ik Classes of Infirmities ......... 82 ib. Insanity ........... 83 95 Deaf-Mutism ........... 84 96 Blindness ........... 85 97 Leprosy ........... 86 98 Caste and Infirmity ......... 87 99 Subsidiary Tables . 100 C h a p t e r XI.— Caste, Tribe or Race. Statistics ........... 88 102 Accuracy of Return .... 9 ib. Caste ...... ..... 90 ib. Distribution ........... 01 ib. Hindu Castes .......... 92 ib. Kachhi ........... 03 105 Ahir and Bharud .......... 04 ib. Bagri ............ 95 ib. Baiga . v 96 ib. Balai .... ....... 97 ib. Bansphor ........... 98 ib. Beldar 99 ib. Desxvali . • • .100 104. Gusain . •' .101 ib. K h a t i ......................................................................................................... .102 ib.