Author : C. Latimer
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ISBN 13 : 9781332110872
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Book Synopsis Census of India, 1911, Vol. 13 by : C. Latimer
Download or read book Census of India, 1911, Vol. 13 written by C. Latimer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Census of India, 1911, Vol. 13: North-West Frontier Province The enumeration to which this report relates is the sixth which the districts included in the North-West Frontier Province have undergone. Previous enumerations, carried out respectively on the 31st December 1854 and January 1st, 1855, on the 10th January 1868, on the 17th February 1881, on the 26th February 1891, and on the 1st March 1901, were conducted under the orders of the Government of the Punjab, of which the districts we are now concerned with then formed a part. Of previous Censuses that of 1881 was the first to be carried out with the care and thoroughness which distinguish Census Operations in India to-day; and from it date the variations of population shown in Table II in Part II of this volume. Under the Proclamation of October 25th, 1901, the districts now administered by the Chief Commissioner were separated from the Punjab, and formed, with certain areas across the administrative border, into a separate charge under the name of the North-West Frontier Province. The present enumeration, which took place on the night of March 10th, 1911, was accordingly the first to be carried out since the Province possessed a separate existence. In the Punjab Census Report, 1901 figures were, however, given separately throughout the tables for the Punjab and for the North-West Frontier Province. The latter Province consists of (a) the five settled districts of Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan, and (b) a tract stretching, from the mountains of the Hindu Kush to Baluchistan, between Afghanistan on the west and the borders of British India on the east. The boundaries of the five settled districts as now constituted were determined in October 1901, and the only change made since that time has been in the transference of the village of Naranji from the Dera Ghazi Khan District in the Punjab to Dera Ismail Khan. The trans-border tract contains five Political Agencies, known respectively as the Malakand, Khyber, Kurram, Tochi and Wano Agencies, together with areas under the political control of the Deputy Commissioners of the five settled districts. The figures given in Tables I and II of the present volume (Part II), contain for the first time an estimate of the population of the whole area trans-border which is included in the Province; in this area, however, only the population of British posts has been enumerated on the regular Schedule. In 1901 the population of British posts across the border was similarly enumerated (the figures for the Khyber, Tochi and Wano Agencies being included, in the Punjab Census Report, 1901, in the figures for the Peshawar, Bannu and Dera Ismail Districts respectively); and the scope of the present (regular) Census has been smaller than that of 1901 in so far as the Sherani country, under the political control of the Deputy Commissioner of Dera Ismail Khan, and a portion of the Kurram Agency, which were included in the operations of that year, have been omitted on the present occasion. The detailed instructions for the taking of a Census are lengthy, and the Provincial Census Code, based on an Imperial Code issued by the Census Commissioner, presented a formidable appearance to district officers, whose work is already sufficiently heavy, without the extra burden which a Census places upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
