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MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE HAS BEEN A FULL TIME OCCUPATION and a main
source of livelihood of some persons in the district. The persons
who are placed in this group are priests, ministers of religion,
religious mendicants, those engaged in temples and on burning ghats,
inmates of monasteries and readers in churches. The number of
persons engaged in this group was steadily declining. In 1911, their
number was 3,083; in 1921, 2,905; in 1931, 1,732; and in 1951,
1,211. In 1951, there were 426 priests, sadhus and religious workers
and 785 servants in religious edifices, burial places and burning
ghats.
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