Map of South Kanara district in 1861. The taluk of Coondapoor was then in North Kanara but was transferred to South Kanara district when North Kanara was transferred to Bombay Presidency in 1862
South Kanara had a total population of 1,748,991 in 1951, of whom 66.58% were Hindus, 24.31% Muslim and 8.85% Christian.[8] The most widely spoken language was Tulu which was the mother tongue of 40 percent of the population, followed by Malayalam which formed the mother tongue of 24 percent of the population. Around 17 percent of the total population spoke Kannada. Around 13 percent of the population speaks Konkani as their mother tongue. In 1901, South Kanara had a density of 109 inhabitants per square kilometre (282/sq mi).
The majority of the people were Billavas and Bunts. There were more Brahmins (12% of the population) in South Kanara than any other district of the Madras Presidency making South Kanara, along with Tanjore and Ganjam as one of the three districts of the province where Brahmins were most numerous.[13]
^"Census GIS India". Census of India. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
^Patsy Lozupone, Bruce M. Beehler, Sidney Dillon Ripley.(2004).Ornithological gazetteer of the Indian subcontinent, p. 82.Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International. ISBN 1-881173-85-2.
^K. Balasubramanyam (1965). 1961 Census Handbook- South Kanara District (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations, Mysore.
^M. K. Devassy (1965). 1961 Census Handbook- Cannanore District (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala and The Union Territory of Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands.
^P. M. Nair (1979). District Census Handbook -Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands (1971) - Village Directory (PDF). Kavaratti& Government Printing Press, Kozhikode: Administrator and Ex-Officio Director of Census Operations, Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Island. p. 2.
^M. K. Devassy (1967). Census of India - 1961 (Kerala) (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala and The Union Territory of Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands.
^J. I. Arputhanathan (1955), South Kanara, The Nilgiris, Malabar and Coimbatore Districts (Village-wise Mother-tongue Data for Bilingual or Multilingual Taluks) (PDF), Madras Government Press
^ a b c d e fGovernment of Madras (1953). 1951 Census Handbook- South Canara District (PDF). Madras Government Press. p. 147.
^J. Sturrock (1894). Madras District Manuals - South Canara (Volume-I). Madras Government Press.
^Harold A. Stuart (1895). Madras District Manuals - South Canara (Volume-II). Madras Government Press.
^Government of Madras (1905). Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for South Canara District. Madras Government Press.
^Government of Madras (1915). Madras District Gazetteers South Canara (Volume-II). Madras Government Press.
^Silva, Severine; Fuchs, Stephan (1965). "The Marriage Customs of the Christians in South Canara, India". Asian Folklore Studies. 24 (2). Nanzan University: 2–3. doi:10.2307/1177555. JSTOR 1177555.
Further reading
S. Muhammad Hussain Nainar (1942), Tuhfat-al-Mujahidin: An Historical Work in The Arabic Language, University of Madras, ISBN 9789839154801
J. Sturrock (1894), Madras District Manuals - South Canara (Volume-I), Madras Government Press
Harold A. Stuart (1895), Madras District Manuals - South Canara (Volume-II), Madras Government Press
Government of Madras (1905), Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for South Canara District, Madras Government Press
Government of Madras (1915), Madras District Gazetteers South Canara (Volume-II), Madras Government Press
Government of Madras (1953), 1951 Census Handbook- South Canara District (PDF), Madras Government Press
J. I. Arputhanathan (1955), South Kanara, The Nilgiris, Malabar and Coimbatore Districts (Village-wise Mother-tongue Data for Bilingual or Multilingual Taluks) (PDF), Madras Government Press
Rajabhushanam, D. S. (1963), Statistical Atlas of the Madras State (1951) (PDF), Madras (Chennai): Director of Statistics, Government of Madras
External links
South Canara by Vikas Kamat from Kamat.com
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