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Census Details.

IN 1852 (1st October) the Kolaba sub-colloctorate was formed by adding the sub-divisions of Underi and Revdanda, which comprised the chief parts of Angria's territory, to the three southern Thana sub-divisions of Sankshi, Rajapuri, and Raygad. Census details of the present district are, therefore, not available for 1846 or for 1851. The 1881 census shows a total of 381,649, an increase of 31,244 or 8.91 per cent over the 1872 population.

1872.

According to the 1872 census the population of the district was 350, 405 or 233.44 to the square mile; Hindus numbered 330,914 or 94.43 per cent; Musalmans 17,194 or 4.90 per cent; Jews 1946 or 0.55 per cent; Christians 208 or 0.05 per cent; Parsis 25; and there were 118 others.

1881.

The 1881 census showed a population of 381,649 or 255.11 to the square mile. Of these 361,281 or 94.66 per cent were Hindus 17,891 or 4.68 per cent Musalmans, 2139 or 0.56 per cent Jews, 305 Christians, and 33 Parsis. The percentage of Hindus on the total population was 94.66, of Musalmans 4.68, of Jews 0.56, and of Christians 0.07. The percentage of males on the total population was 50.29 and of females 49.70.

Birth-Place.

Of 381,649 (males 191,952, females 189,697) the total population, 347,269 (males 173,623, females 173,646) or 90.99 per cent were born in the district. Of the 34,380 who were born in other parts, 12,049 were born in Ratnagiri, 4107 in Thana, 3272 in Poona, 3077 in Satara, 1455 in Bombay, 703 in Gujarat, 1030 in other parts of the Presidency, 6709 in the Bombay states, and 1978 in other parts of India and outside India.

Language.

According to the 1881 census returns, of 381,649 the, total population of the district, 366,717 (183,588 males, 183,129 females) or 96.08 per cent spoke Marathi. Of the remaining 14,932 persons, 10,968 spoke Arabic and Hindustani, including Urdu and Deccani; 2435 spoke Gujarati; 1009 spoke Marvadi; 232 spoke Portuguese, Konkani, or Goanese; 226 spoke Telegu, including Vadari; fifty-three spoke Kanarese; and nine spoke Tamil, including Kaikadi, Arvi, and Madrasi.

The following tabular statement gives, for the year 1881, details of the population of each sub-division according to religion, age, and sex:

Kolaba Population, 1881. Sub-Divisional Details.

SUB DIVISIONS.	HINDUS.
	Up to twelve.		Twelve to thirty.		Above thirty.
	Males.	Females	Males.	Females	Males,	Females
Alibag	12,878	12,317	11,164	11,519	12,576	12,261
Pen	12,663	12,014	10,976	10,009	11,127	10,543
Roha	7952	7528	6728	6548	6692	7015
Mangaon	14,270	13,418	11,081	11,300	12,496	13,586
Mahad	19,469	17,713	14,529	15,120	17,277	18,532
Total	67,233	62,990	54,458	54,496	60,168	61,937
	MUSALMA'NS.
Alibag	321	324	367	287	441	379
Pen	365	345	406	379	448	402
Roha	309	305	290	321	330	314
Mangaon	850	378	702	738	861	863
Mahad	1190	1004	896	1043	1176	1326
Total	3035	2887	2661	2768	3256	3284
	CHRISTIANS.
Alibag	37	54	49	42	50	33
Pen	1	2	3	1	3	--
Roha	2	2	2	2	3	--
Mangaon	--	--	--	--	--	--
Mahad	3	6	1	3	5	1
Total	43	64	55	48	61	34
	JEWS (2139) AND PA'RSIS (33).
Alibag	196	201	118	157	158	209
Pen	78	102	78	90	75	90
Roha	67	100	67	84	80	94
Mangaon	25	25	12	17	22	20
Mahad	--	--	3	--	4	--
Total	366	428	278	348	339	413
	TOTAL.
Alibag	13,432	12,896	11,698	12,005	13,225	12,882
Pen	13,105	12,465	11 463	10,479	11,653	11,035
Roha	8330	7935	7087	6952	7108	7423
Mangeon	15,145	14,262	11,775	12,055	13,379	14,469
Mahad	20,662	13,813	15,428	16,167	18,462	19,859
Total	76,674	66,371	57,451	57,658	63,827	65,668

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SUB DIVISIONS.	HINDUS.
	Total.		Grand Total.
	Males.	Females	Persons.
Alibag	36,618	36,097	72,715
Pen	34,766	32,566	67,332
Roha	21,372	21,091	42,463
Mangaon	37,827	38,304	76,131
Mahad	51,275	51,365	102,640
Total	181,858	179,423	361,281
	MUSALMA'NS.
Alibag	1120	990	2119
Pen	1219	1126	2345
Roha	929	940	1869
Mangaon	2413	2420	4833
Mahad	3262	3463	6725
Total	8952	8939	17,891
	CHRISTIANS.
Alibag	136	129	265
Pen	7	3	10
Roha	--	4	11
Mangaon	--	--	--
Mahad	9	10	19
Total	159	146	305
	JEWS (2139) AND PA'RSIS (33).
Alibag	472	567	1039
Pen	231	282	513
Roha	214	278	492
Mangaon	59	62	121
Mahad	7	--	7
Total	983	1189	2172
	TOTAL.
Alibag	38,355	37,783	76,138
Pen	30,221	33,979	70,200
Roha	22,525	22,310	44,835
Mangeon	40,299	40,786	81,085
Mahad	54,552	54,839	109,391
Total	191,952	189,697	381,649

From the above statement it appears that the percentage of males on the total population was 50.30 and of females 49.70. Hindu males numbered 181,858 or 50.33 per cent, and Hindu females numbered 179,423 or 49.66 per cent of the total Hindu population; Musalman males numbered 8952 or 50.03 per cent, and Musalman females 8939 or 49.96 per cent of the total Musalman population; Christian males numbered 159 or 52.13 per cent, and Christian females numbered 146 or 47.86 per cent of the total Christian population. Parsi males numbered 25 or 75.75 per cent, and Parsi females numbered 8 or 24.24 per cent of the total Parsi population. Jew males numbered 958 or 44.78 per cent, and Jew females numbered 1181 or 55.21 per cent of the total Jew population.

The following tabular statement gives the number of each religious class according to sex at different ages, with, at each stage, the percentage on the total population of the same sex and religion. The columns referring to the total population omit religious distinctions, but show the difference of sex:

Kolaba Population by Age, 1881.

AGES.	HINDUS.				MUSALMANS.
AGES.	Males.	Percent age on total males.	Females	Percentage on total females.	Males.	Percent age on total males.	Females.	Percent. age on total Females.
Up to 1 year	4442	2.44	4433	2.47	231	3.53	207	2.31
1 „ 4 years	24,368	13.39	25,445	14.18	943	10.52	1013	11.33
5 „ 9	23,603	15.17	25,293	14.09	1317	14.71	1251	13.99
10 „14 „	20,057	11.02	15,534	8.65	1115	12.45	864	9.06
15 „19 „	14,054	7.72	14,029	7.82	682	7.62	693	7.75
20,, 24,,	12,819	7.04	15,416	8.59	610	6.38	774	8.66
25,,27,,	17,341	9.53	17,334	9.66	791	8.83	853	9.54
30,,34,,	15,432	8.48	15,450	8.01	684	7.61	300	6.52
35, 39,,	10,964	6.02	8922	4.97	609	6.80	499	5.53
40 „ 49 „	16, 017	8.80	15,895	8.80	854	9.54	804	3.00
50,, 54,,	7467	4.10	8243	4.85	405	4.52	477	5.38
55 „ 59 „	2969	1.64	2997	1.62	181	2.02	103	1.82
Above 60,,	7305	4.01	10,422	5.80	524	6.25	541	6.05
Total	181,858		179,413		5957		8939

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AGES	CHRISTIANS.				OTHERS.
AGES	Males	Percentage on total males	Females	Percentage on total Females	Males	Percentage on total males.	Females	Percentage on total females
Up to 1 year	2	1.35	8	5.49	34	3.45	41	3.44
1 „ 4 years.	21	13.20	24	16.44	136	13.83	130	11.69
5 „ 9,,	16	10.06	23	15.75	137	13.93	188	15.21
10 „ 14 „	13	8.18	14	9.59	119	12.10	125	10.51
15 „ 19 „	9	5.00	12	8.21	07	6.81	102	8.57
20 „ 24,,	12	7.65	10	10.98	62	6.30	90	8.07
25 „ 29 „	26	16.35	14	9.59	88	8.93	85	7.15
30 „ 34 „	14	8.90	9	9.43	61	6.20	93	7.98
35 „ 39 „	20	12.50	9	6.16	64	6.51	60	5.04
40 „ 49,.	19	11.90	12	8.31	69	7.00	110	9.25
50 „ 54,,	1	0.80	1	0.68	45	4.57	61	5.13
55 „ 59	4	2.51	1	0.03	29	2.95	16	1.34
Above 60,,	2	1.25	4	2.74	72	7.32	71	5.97
Total	159		146		983		1189

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AGES	TOTAL
AGES	Males	Percentage	Females	Percentage
Up to 1 year	4709	2.45	4639	2.47
1 „ 4 years.	25,468	13.20	26,631	14.03
5 „ 9,,	30,073	15.70	26,756	14.10
10 „ 14 „	21,304	11.00	16,567	8.71
15 „ 19 „	14,812	7.71	14,830	7.82
20 „ 24,,	13,500	7.02	16,302	8.59
25 „ 29 „	18,240	9.50	13,389	3.84
30 „ 34 „	16,191	8.45	16,353	8.62
35 „ 39 „	11,657	6.07	9450	5.00
40 „ 49,.	10,959	8.82	10,821	8.86
50 „ 54,,	7918	4.12	8632	4.08
55 „ 59	3203	1.67	3087	1.62
Above 60,,	7903	4.12	11,038	5.82
Total	194,952		189,698

The following table shows the proportion of the people at the district who are unmarried, married, and widowed:

Kolaba Marriage Details, 1881.

Unmarried	HINDUS.
	Under ten.		Ten to Fourteen.		Fifteen to nineteen.		Twenty to twenty-four.
	Males.	Females.	Males.	Females.	Males	Females.	Males	Females.
	56,395	48,525	16,567	3689	7466	490	3353	158
Married	992	6508	3385	11,425	6457	12,980	9226	14,294
Widowed	20	141	102	424	132	554	228	969
	MUSALMANS.
Unmarried	2445	2308	904	551	465	110	263	10
Married	45	162	116	304	209	559	344	711
Widowed	1	1	5	9	8	24	9	44
	JEWS.
Unmarried	300	386	103	86	45	10	14	3
Married	5	10	11	40	21	89	45	38
Widowed	--	--	1	--	1	2	2	4

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Unmarried	HINDUS.
	Twenty-five to twenty-nine.		Thirty and over.		Total.
	Males.	Females.	Males.	Females.	Males	Females.
	1728	133	1880	222	37,326	68,217
Married	15,225	3,814	51,964	31,058,	87,250	91,588
Widowed	496	1895	6229	30,624	7213	24,618
	MUSALMANS.
Unmarried	153	16	213	36	4523	6042
Married	616	780	2687	1724	4017	4220
Widowed	22	75	267	1524	492	1677
	JEWS.
Unmarried	6	--	13	6	484	458
Married	72	78	283	322	437	527
Widowed	1	6	32	184	37	196

Occupation.

According to occupation the census returns for 1872 divide the whole population into seven classes: [The occupation detailis of the 1881 census are not ready.]

I.—Employed under Government or municipal and other local authorities, numbering in all 1590 souls or 0.45 per cent of the entire population.

II.—Professional persons, 1966 or 0.66 per cent.

III.—In service or performing pergonal offices, 5201 or 1.48 per cent.

IV.—Engaged in agriculture and with animate, 95,970 or 27.38 per cent.

V.—Engaged in commerce and trade 9023 or 2.57 per cent.

VI.—Employed in mechanical arts, manufactures and engineering operations, and engaged in the sale of articles manufactured or otherwise prepared for consumption, 18,697 or 5.33 per cent.

VII. Miscellaneous persons not classed otherwise, (a) wives 87,810 and children 1,26,251, in all 214,061 or 61.09 per cent; and (b) miscellaneous persons 3897 or 1.11 per cent; total 217,958 or 62.20 per cent.

The people of the district belong to three main sections, Hindus, Musalmans, and Beni-Israels or Jews. For descriptive purposes, Hindus may be brought under the thirteen heads of Brahmans, Writers, Merchants, Cultivators, Craftsmen, Musicians, Servants, Shepherds, Fishers and Sailors, Labourers, Unsettled Tribes, Depressed Classes, and Beggars.