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LABOB BUPPLF to In lower castes considerable numbers Central Provinces Cawnpore and Partabgarh large numbers of elsewhere in order to find work ?ar fion the tlon The workin? seasons go to Bengal and for work in lhe mines and also etcher industrial cenlres of India. ?he people migrat? and sometimes go afield. The most striking feature of the emirra- in Partabgarh is that females predominate among emigrants thongh there is a considerable of males. chief characteristic of the Indian in lhe mills or mines is when the crops are being proper- laborers that at certain barvested they return home to help the members of their family in agricultural operations as well as ticns who reside in the ?11ages. with them to work in mills or stick longer them and the disturbance to see their rela- If their family go mines, they will caused by their absence at regular intervals will a great extent. The predominance of female 'grants is of great economic significance indicates how far women are mobile. be stopped to because i? COMPARATIV]? TABLE OF EMIGBAlqT8 FROM ALLAHABAD AND ADJOINING DISTBIOT8 Districts Allahabad Fatehpur Partabgarh Sultanput Rai Bareli Unso Emigrants 1901 117,08 68,697 87,696 102,258 88,188 106,190 1911 18?,208 62,212 102,799 112,568 95,957 95,471 Variations +14.4 -8.6 +17.fl +9.8 + 10.0 -11.4 From.the enquiries which I carried out regarding &do 'the supply of labor form Allahabad and its ] ming districts to the Penoh Valley Collieriss, it seems that though there is a shortage in the supply of the skilled