Class 12 History - Themes in Indian History - III - Chapter Colonial Cities NCERT Solutions | To what extent are census data useful in

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Question 1

To what extent are census data useful in reconstructing patterns of urbanisation in the colonial context?

Answer

 A careful study of the data collected through the census provides us a lot of information in understanding the trend of urbanisation. It can be examined as under:

(a) The process of urbanisation was sluggish in India after 1800.

(b) In the nineteenth century and in first two decades of the twentieth century the proportion of the urban population was very low and stagnant.

(c) Which recorded between 1900 and 1940, A 13% increase in the urban population which recorded between whereas during the same period, these was a overall 10% increase in the population of the whole country.

(d) The data, thus, collected helps us in the enumeration of people according to their age, sex, caste, religion, occupation, etc.

 

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