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THE PEOPLE
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DETAILS OF 1951 CENSUS
THE POPULATION OF THE KOLABA DISTRICT, [Kolaba district consisted, at the time of the 1951 Census of the area of the former Kolab a district of Bombay Province, with the addition of Sudhagad Mahal of the former Bhor State, the former Janjira State and two villages of Ratnagiri district.] according to the Census of 1951, is 909,083 (m. 445,580; f. 463,503). Spread over its area of 2,712.3 sq. miles, [The area figure was obtained from the District Inspector of Land Records; the same as supplied by the Surveyor General of India is 2,715.1 sq.' miles.] it works out at 335 to a sq. mile. This total is composed of Hindus numbering 846,723 (.m 415,733;f.. 430,990) or 93.1 per cent; Jains 2,318 (m. 1,474; f.. 844); Sikhs 55 (m. 41; f. 14); Muslims 55,526 (TO. 26,047; f.. 29,479) or 6.1 per cent; Christians 2,445 (m. 1,259; f.. 1,186) or 0.27 per cent; Jews 1,852 (m. 930; f.. 922); Zoroastrians 160 (TO. 93; f.. 67) and Non-tribals 4 (m. 3; f.. 1). The Census has also enumerated separately 56,296 (m. 27,757; f. 28,539) as belonging to "Scheduled Castes" and 92,584 (TO. 45,304; f.. 47,280) as belonging to "Scheduled Tribes", 473 (TO. 290; f.. 183) as Displaced persons from West Pakistan, and 107 (TO. 75; V. 32) as non-Indian Nationals.
The tract-wise distribution of this population over the district is as follows: -
Rural Tracts: 813,055 (m. 396,206; f. 416,849)-Alibag, Pen Srivardhan, Murud and Mhasla, 250,680 (m.118,146; f. 132,534); Panvel, Karjat, Khalapur, Uran and Sudhagad, 257,206 (m. 132,191; f.. 125,015); Roha and Manganv, 171,255 (m. 82,789; f. 88,469); Mahad and Poladpur, 133,914 (m. 63,083; f. 70,831).
Urban Tracts: 96,028 (m. 49,374; f. 46,654)-Alibag, Pen. Srivardhan, Murud and Mhalsa, 52,540 (m. 26,263; f. 26,177)'; Panvel, Karjat, Roha, Mahad and Uran, 43,488 (Tm. 23,011; f. 20,477).
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