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2 Section FLX.
3 MISCELLANEOUS. |
4 POPULATION. |
5 184. According to the arrangement of topics prescribed by Go-
6 ‘ vernment, the first subject to be treated of is’
7 Population. Fortunately, there are, under this
8 head, better materials available on the present than on any former
9 occasion, e
10 185. On the night intervening between the 3lst December 1854, -
11 and the Ist January 1855, a Census of the people
12 was taken throughout these Territories, This
13 Census was effected by enumerating all persons who slept in each house,
14 whether situate in city, village, or hamlet, or altogether isolated,
15 throughout these Territories, from Kurnaul to the Khyber Pass, and from
16 the confines of Jummoo to the confines of Sindh. On one and the same
17 night, all sections of the people, the sturdy yeomen of the Upper
18 Punjab, the wild mountaineer near the Frontier, the wandering cattle.
19 grazier of the Central districts, were all counted. An agency and
20 machinery for enumerating had been organized, and complete forms for
21 registration and-record had been prepared before hand. The people ©
22 evinced a laudable alacrity to co-operate even in the wildest district.
23 There was no desire for concealment of numbers, even of the women.
24 There were no prejudicial rumours spread about. There was no distrust
25 of the intentions of the Government. Many persons, such as city
26 burghers, village headmen, rustic accountants, acted as enumerators, and
27 all servants of the Government, European and Native, exerted themselves
28 on the occasion. « The general Abstract Returns were prepared in precise _
29 conformity with those of the North-Western Provinces. The Returns
30 of area were, for the majority of districts, compiled from the most trust-
31 worthy sources, namely, the Revenue and the Topographical Surveys ;
32 for the remainder they were deduced from the standard Maps in use,
33 with the aid of local measurements,
34 Population,
35 Census of 1855.