MANUAL OF TUE NILAGIKI DISTRICT. 25 



CHAPTER III. 

 POPULATION. 



Early notices.— Captain Ward's Report. — Major Ouchterlony's.— Quinquennial.— 

 Census of 1871. — Distribution. — Houses. — Proportion of Sexes. — Increase in 

 number of Hill Tribes. — Incorrectness of Ketums.— Population of Villages. — 

 Of Nids. — JReligion. — Castes. — Occupations. — Education. — General remarks. 



The earliest notice of the population of tlie Nilagiri Hills will CHAP. III. 

 be found in Keys^ and Macmahon's Survey Report, dated the pop^^ioN. 



12th June 1812 ^ ''The population," they observe, "male and 



female in the three nads^ amounts to 2,516 individuals, of which j^^^j^^g^ 

 number 1,647 are Badagas, 292 Lingbund or Shevaacharas, 

 268 Thorayers, 179 Thothavurs and 130 Cothurs.'' They mention 

 also the number of villages as " 41 principal and 119 subordinate." 

 These figures were probably obtained from the Taluq OflBce at 

 Devanaikenkota, to which taluq the Nilagiris then appertained. 



In 1821 Captain B. S. Ward^ appears to have made a more captain 



detailed census. The results are as follows : — Ward's 



Census. 



^ Printed in the Appendices. 



- Peranganad, Mekanid and Tddandd. 



2 Printed in the Appendices. 



