Imperial Gazetteer Punjab Delhi Division

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2Gurgaos

3District.

4The people.

5T heir castes

6and occupa-

8The District contains 8 towns and 1,171 villages. Its

9population at each of the last four enumerations was : 1868,

10689,034; i88i t 641,848; i8gr, 668,929; igoi, 746,208. It

11has increased by 11*5 per cent between 1891 and 1901. There

12are five tahslls, Gurgaon, Firozpur, Nub, Palwal and Rewari,

13each named from the place at its head-quarters. The chief

14towns are the municipalities of Rewari, Farrukhnagar,

15Palwal, Firozpur-Jhirka, Sohna and Modal. Gurgaon,

16the head-quarters of the District, is a small place. The follow-

17ing table shows the chief statistics of population in i§oi «

18lahsih

19Area is square miles.

20Number

21of—

22Population.

23Population per square

24mile.

25Percentage of variation

26in population between

271891 and 1901.

28Number of persons able

29to read and write.

30Towns.

31Village.

32Gurgaon

33• 0

34413

353

36207

37125.760

38304*5

39+ 11*9

403,986

41Palwal

42•«.

4338s

442

451S7

46« 72.557

4745*7

48+ 15 s

494,301

50Firozpur

51...

52317

53X

54230

55132.287

56417*3

57+ 16*2

582,362

59Null ...

60403

61X

6235 7

63145,931

64362*1

65+ 10*9

662,397

67Rewari

68«*•

694*6

70I

71290

72169,673

73398 - 3

744* 5*2

756,397

76District Total

77-1,984

788

79hi 7 l

80746,208

81376-1

82+ ix*5

83*9,443

84*The only figures available for the areas of tahslls are those derived from the j

85revenue returns, and the tahsii densities have been calculated on the areas given J

86in the reveuue returns for 1900-01. These returns do not always cover the whole ■J

87of the country comprised in a tahsii and hence the total of the tahsii areas does

88not agree with the district area as shown in the Census Report of 1901, in the J

89table above and on page 39, which is the complete area as calculated by the Survey I

90department. The tracts not included in the revenue survey areas a rule umn* J

91habited or very sparsely populated. S’

92Hindus number 499,373 or 67 per cent., and there are i?

93242,548 Muhammadans. About 85 per cent, of the people return :

94their language as Hindustani or Urdu; 14 per cent, speak 4

95Mewati, and 2,600 persons Braj. J

96The Meos (129,000), who number one-sixth of the population, |

97are probably almost pure aborigines, of the same stock as the j

98Minas of the Aravalli hills, though perhaps with an admixture J

99of Rajput blood, They hold large tracts of land ia the southern 1