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Title: Census of India, 1911 ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: India. Census Commissioner
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Publisher: Calcutta : Superintendent government printing, India (etc., etc.)
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ile, and there is generally sufficient rain. This division is intersected by several rivers. It is better served by railways and has more and better roads than the other parts of the Agency. The Southern division consists mainly of forest-clad hills enclosing fertile well-watered valleys, but occasionally more open tracts are met with. The Western division, which is by far the most extensive, forms part of the North-West Dry Area. It has a very scanty rainfall and its liability to famine is proverbial.* The physical characteristics of these divisions are clearly reflected in the density of their population. In the Eastern division there are 164 inhabitants to the square mile, in the Southern 103, and in the Western • Mr. Ktaly quotes two proverbs referring to the frequency of famines: — His feet are in Pungal, his head is in Meiia, liis bellys in Bikanar. In forgetful momi-nts heU visit Jodlipur ; but lies always in Jaisalmer ; and Expect one lean year in three, one famine year in eight
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AREA, POPULATION AND DENSITY. 25 only 38.* In the Jaisalmcr State, in the west, there are only 5 inhabitants to the square mile, or even fewer than in Baluchistan : in the four most thinly peopled parganas of this State there are only two people to the square mile.The antithesis to this is found in the State of Bharatpur on the eastern l)(n-derof the Agency, where there are 282. Except where the surface is much broken,the density varies more or less closely with the rainfall. In the Western division it is greatest (59 peisons to the square mile) in Marwar, which has twelve inches,and least, as we have just seen, in Jaisalmcr, which has less than seven. The general low density throughout this division is diie entirely to its scanty rainfall. The soil itself is often fertile, and if irrigated would no doubt, in some parts at least, be capable of supporting as great a population as the canal colonies of the Punjab. 35. Travancore in the extreme south-west of the peninsula has a population Trava

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