Census of India, 1911 .. . y, which obtains more than half of its immigrants from thedistricts in the immediate neighbourhood. The United Provinces gives morethan four times as many labourers to Bengal as to Bombay. SSi^toVng pro*rtn- I^l. The cbb and flow of population between adjoining Provinces and Statesces and States jg ghowu in tlic map ou tlic ucxl pagc. The volume of these movements is deter-mined very largely l)y the length of the common boundary line. Where it islong, as in the case of Madras and Mysore, the figures include a great deal ofmigration of the casual type ; and in such ca
Census of India, 1911 .. . y, which obtains more than half of its immigrants from thedistricts in the immediate neighbourhood. The United Provinces gives morethan four times as many labourers to Bengal as to Bombay. SSi^toVng pro*rtn- I^l. The cbb and flow of population between adjoining Provinces and Statesces and States jg ghowu in tlic map ou tlic ucxl pagc. The volume of these movements is deter-mined very largely l)y the length of the common boundary line. Where it islong, as in the case of Madras and Mysore, the figures include a great deal ofmigration of the casual type ; and in such cases the important question is, notthe total amount of migration, but the net result. But it often happens that themigration between adjacent provinces is of a periodic, semi-permanent or perma- IIIGEATION 15ETWEEX ADJOINING PROVINCES AND STATES. 95 neut type. Thus the bulk of tlie emigration from Bihar and Orissa to Bengal isperiodic. jUiip thotoing the ehh and JJow i>f migration betaeen contiguous Provinces and Note.—The arrows show the total volume of migratiuD in each direction when it exceeds On the other hand, of the 12tt,000 persons born in the United Provinceswho were enumerated in Bihar and Orissa, two-thirds were found in the fourborder districts of that pi-ovince, and these were, in the main, emigrants of tliecasual type. The United Provinces gives 131,000 emigrants, chiefJy fieldlabourers, to the Central Provinces and Berar and receives in return less thanone-eighth of that mimber. The United Provinces loses also to the Punjab,giving 220,000 and receiving only 122,000 ; more than half the movementin both directions is of the casual type, but the Punjab sends to theUnited Provinces sepoys, police and a number of traders and jiedlars andreceives in exchange many domestic servants. The Central Provinces andBerar gains not only from the United Provinces, as noted above, but fromall its neighbours. The wheat harvest was in full swing when the censuswa
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