Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1CHAP, IL—THE PEOPLE 29

2Table No, Vi stows the districta and principal States

3with which Amritsar hus exchanged population, and the

4namber of migrants ineach direction. Further details will he

5found at page lxxvi ef ery. of the Conaun Keport for 1891,

6aud the-subject in discusrad nt length in Chaptor X of thas hirst-

7Hake latin.

8report, ‘Tho total number of residents born ont of the

9is 131,082, the proportion of tho sexes among theo boin

10rooghly 8 women to men. ‘The total number of residents o

11other Punjab districts born in the Amritear district is $18,149,

12of which total about 56) per cent, are women.

13The figures below alow the general distribution of the

14population by birth-place —

15Vecrestras eva ells of stesver? rertiatios.

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26the attractive influence of a yreak contre of ecommorce is

27ab once ent in the figures, for while 89 percent, of the

28rural peeaticn ia indigenous, no less thin 2$ per cent. of the

29paug ot the ae ewe ike’ oe, the pag oul aon

30eent. beyon « Limits the vince ; four m1.

31pd from outuide India, of which one-half are Sone Asletia

32countries, Amritear in ono of the most thickly-peopled

33districts of thu province, it is profusely irrigated from the

34Bari Dosb Canal, and hex on ita borders tho submontane

35districta of dallnudar, where tho density is greater, and of

36Gurdasper, Hosbiarpar and Sislkot, where the density is

37almost us great a3 in Amritear itself.

38From theae districts it takes population as well us from

39Lahore and Forozepors, but to the two latter it gives far more

40than it takes. In tho latter ee aa, MA, sa Movltan

41aud Montgomery, where inundation » ntely constructed,

42have attracted cultivators from the more tad districts,

43Of the remuining twenty-two districts, the ituntigrants into

44Amtitsar sre in excess in tev, and the emigrants ont of

45Aimyitaar, in twelve. ‘The migration to and from the neigh-

46bouting districte iy mainly reciprocal in type, und: is due to

47tho exogamoas customs of the Hindy Jats of tho Central

48Panjab, ‘The emigration from Amritsur to the frontior districts

49Chapter III, A.

50Statistical.

51Migration and

52, of. papas

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