Census of India, 1911 .. . ns of Darjeeling and the Duars. Of the Native States, Animists are most numerous in those Map showing the distribution of Animists. fittached tO Assam and the CentralProvinces and Berar,where they formmore than one-thirdof the aggregate po-pulation, and in thoseof Bihar and Orissawhere they are morethan one-eightli. Inorder to show moreclearly their localdistribution, I havedistinguished in themarginal map theparts of each pro-vince where theyare chiefly Animists ofBihar and Orissa arealmost wholly con-fined to the ChotaNagpur plateau,those of the Central
Census of India, 1911 .. . ns of Darjeeling and the Duars. Of the Native States, Animists are most numerous in those Map showing the distribution of Animists. fittached tO Assam and the CentralProvinces and Berar,where they formmore than one-thirdof the aggregate po-pulation, and in thoseof Bihar and Orissawhere they are morethan one-eightli. Inorder to show moreclearly their localdistribution, I havedistinguished in themarginal map theparts of each pro-vince where theyare chiefly Animists ofBihar and Orissa arealmost wholly con-fined to the ChotaNagpur plateau,those of the Central Provinces and Berar to Bastar, Mandla and the five ChotaNagpur States, those of Madras to the Agency tracts, and those of Burma to fourhilly tracts. In fine the universal rule is that they^ are most connnon in theremote upland tracts which are, or were until recently, comparatively difficultof access. In the open plains they have nearly all been submerged in Hinduism. • The same remark applies in fiurma to the Buddhist*.. CHRISTIANS. 13L Thus in the hills to which they have given their name the Khonds are still purelyAnimistic but those of the Puri district have all become Hiuduized. Many- similar instances could he given. las boon ^i*° * °* 170. The uncertainty of the classification to which attentiondrawn above prevents any effective comparison with tlie results of previouscensuses. The figures as they stand show an increase of 20 per cent, duringthe last ten years, but it is not wortb dwelling on them at length. In Bom])aywhere more care was taken than at tlie previous census to discriminate betweenAnimists and Hindus, the former luive an increase of 238 per cent, while inCentral India, where in 1901 all EhiJs had been treated as Animists withoutregard to the entry in the religion column, they are only half as numerous asthey were then shown to be. A third of the increase of 30 per cent, in theCentral Provinces and Berar is attributed by Mr. Marten to changes of classi-f
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