MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

PERSONS LIVING ON UNEARNED INCOME.

THE CENSUS OF 1881 DID NOT SEPARATELY SHOW PERSONS LIVING ON PURELY UNEARNED INCOME. There was one classification in that census viz., "person of rank or property", but the number of such persons in that year was negligible. Most of the persons who lived on unearned income generally derived their income from rent of agricultural land, but this class of persons was not separately shown in that census. The 1911 census recorded two classes of such persons, viz., those who derived their income from the rent of agricultural land, those who derived it from property other than agriculture such as houses, and investments, or from pensions, or funds. The first class numbered 19,315 and the second 363. It is not, however, clear whether all those receiving agricultural rent were living purely on such rent or some of them had other occupations from which they supplemented their unearned income. The 1931 census was clearer. In that year the number of persons living purely on income from the rent of agricultural land was 7,128, while those who supplemented this income by following other occupations numbered 1,686. Those who lived purely on income from other kinds of property was 245, while those who supplemented this income by following other occupations was 54. The 1951 census recorded 6,935 persons as living on agricultural rent, of whom 2,225 had secondary means of livelihood and 4,710 persons as living on non-agricultural property, pensions, scholarships and other funds, etc.

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