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Table XLI.
REPORT ON THE CENSUS OF THE INDIAN POPULATION OF HONGKONG TAKEN ON 20TH MAY, 1911.
CENSUS OFFICE,
Hongkong, 24th September, 1911.
1. The total Indian Population, Civil and Military, is 2,581 Males and 468 Females- Total 3,049.
2. The only Troops included in the Census are the 8th Rajputs and one Company of the Hongkong-Singapore Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery.
The 126th Baluchistan Infantry and the remaining Companies of the Hongkong- Singapore Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, have been already included in the Census of British India. Their strength, including Followers, is 1,182 Native Officers and men.
3. The bulk of the civil male population are natives of the Punjab. They consist of Sikhs and Mussulmans in about equal numbers. They are nearly all employed either in the Government Service, or as Watchmen. The latter are to be found in the service of nearly all the foreign Commercial Companies, Shops and Hotels. A considerable number are also employed by Chinese. The Sikh watchmen are, almost to a man, professional usurers. They are largely patronized by the Chinese and Portuguese, and many of them are, from an Indian standpoint, wealthy men.
4. There is an important commercial community consisting almost entirely of Parsees, and natives of Bombay and Scinde. Some of the business houses are of very old standing. The Indian shopkeepers are principally drapers and silk dealers.
5. The majority of the permanent residents in the Colony are Mohammedans from elsewhere than the Punjab. They number roughly about 700, and have made the Colony their home. 264 males and 279 females are returned as having been born in Hongkong. This number includes a certain number of children belonging to Punjabis who have brought their families here.
6. 115 Punjabis have returned themselves as being unemployed. They are all either prospective watchmen, or men on the way to or returning from America. The Indian popula- tion of the Colony is considerably affected from time to time by the rush of emigrants to Canada and the United States. At the time the present Census was taken, this emigration was practically at a standstill.
7. The local Sikhs are nearly all Jats. Most of them preferred describing themselves as belonging to the Khalsa, rather than giving the name of their tribe or caste.
There are
a certain number of low caste Sikhs, such as Chimbas, Tarkhans and Nais, but no Mazbis or Labanas.
8. The following Tables are attached to this Report:→→
I-The Religions of the Indian Civil and Military Population.
II. The Indian Civil Population.
III.-Birth Places of (1) the Civil and (2) the Military Population.
IV. The Mohammedam Civil and Military Population according to Caste.
V.-The Birth Places of the Punjabi Civil Community (Sikhs and Mussulmans).
VI. The Married State of the Civil and Military Population (persons aged 15 years
and over).
VII. The Ages of the Civil and Military Population.
VIII.-Occupations of the Indian Civil Population (males).
P. P. J. WODE HOUSE,
Census Officer.