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First Annual Report

DCD usage from 10th Oct 2004- to 11th October 2005

Hits on the Website
Searchterms which brought people to the site
Searches in the Databases

Hits on the Website

During the first year of the availability of this website we have had almost a 100,000 hits on the site, an average of about 260 hits on the site a day. Because of the way that the html pages lead to the databases its not a straightforward matter in some ways to describe what have been the most used resources, you need to look at both the visits to webpages and the use of the databases.

Visits to Webpages

Requests for Records from databases

Hits on Default.htm: 9692
Hits on Census.htm: 3682
Hits on 1871.htm: 1821
Hits on 1881.htm: 1154
Hits on 1881v2.htm: 4864
Hits on 1891.htm: 1113
Hits on 1901.htm: 1707
Hits on Murray.htm: 1712
Hits on Hunter.htm: 1559
Hits on Mill.htm1300
Hits on Wise.htm: 1224
Hits on Williamson.htm: 1313
Hits on Handbook.htm: 10

Hits on censusdata.fp5: 6968
Hits on 1871.fp5: 6178
Hits on 1881.fp5: 8072
Hits on 1881v3.fp5: 898
Hits on 1891.fp5: 3893
Hits on 1901.fp5: 12090
Hits on Madras.fp5: 8457
Hits on Bombay.fp5: 2496
Hits on Hunter.fp5: 2904
Hits on ie.fp5: 1205
Hits on Mill1.fp5: 4072
Hits on Mill2.fp5: 985
Hits on Wise.fp5: 3337
Hits on Williamson.fp5: 6200
Hits on Williamson1.fp5: 4
Hits on Williamson2.fp5: 4
Hits on Handbook.fp5: 27

Total webpage hits: 31151

Total Database requests: 67789

Searchterms which brought people to the site

It is possible to find out a bit about how people found the site, and where it was from a search engine the following results were recorded.

2790: india 1771: census 1096: of 627: in 609: british 553: colonial 467: sex 442: population 345: indian 257: education 223: documents 223: 1901 207: report 169: history 167: the 164: caste 144: 1891 126: and 126: commission 121: 1881 113: 1871 106: colonisation 98: reports 95: hunter 88: to 85: distribution 83: on 69: language 65: afghani 64: tamil

(Note those who found the site by clicking on a link were not recorded in this way in the system logs.)

Searches in the Databases

Its also possible to look at the words which people searched for in the databases and this shows that the most popular searches were for the following terms.

1871, caste in indian politics, “ Central Provinces ”, “English education”, “english population”, “oddan”, “odde”, “race sentiment”, “Religious Sects of the Hindus”, 294361056, 946,000, a subject which counts for at University examinations, abbott, account of low-caste boys educated in indigenous schools, accountant, adi salem, adoption of native children, age distribution 5 14 female male religion, age of marriage, agriculture, ahmadabad, Ajmer, Ambala, andaman islands, Andhra, anglican church, anglo-indian, Arakanese, Aroras, artillery, aryan, aslan, atkins, attendant, ava, Bald, Bank Manager, Baptist Missionary Society, bareilly, bazar, bear traces of the general influence, bell, Bellasis, best practicable method of encouraging indigenous education, Bhatia, Bird , bright, british in assam, british marriage, Budaga Jangam, Buddha, Burma , treatment, raj, Campbell, cashmir, caste figures, Caste in Bengal, caste madras province, caste numbers, caste population table, castes of bihar, casts, caucasian, census of bengal, census table, Chamba, cHAPTER 111, child marriage, christians, chunar, clay, colaba, concluding with a statement of the Recommendations, Considerable conflict of opinion prevails , construction labour, convent, copulation, cornish, cotton, criminal tribe, CUNNINGHAM, Cust, dalton, darjeeling, davis, day, death in service, Delhi population total, depressed castes population figures, distribution of the population age sex religion, distribution of the population age sex religion subsidiary, district commissioner, district commissioner bangalore, duni, east bengal, education in raj, Edward, ellis, English, English education, erskine, ethnic, fair, faquir, Female Infanticide, ford, Fraser, fulfil the conditions which will be noticed presently , fullest and most elaborate, ganjam, Ganjam District, garo, girgaum, goa, Goanese and Portuguese, gond caste in north east provinces, gond in bengal , Gondal, Grant, great encouragement to the study of history and philosophy, Green, h m bond, Haidrabad Municipality, HAIG, hankin, havelock, hills, hindoos in punjab, Hindu caste, hindu religion, Hindus in Bengal, horse breaker, hotels, hunter college, huntingdon, hurd, hutchinson, IMD, Imperfection in the Census, Imperial caste tables, in 1854 about 30,000 boys , in 1890, income, income%2bindia%2bharyana, india, indian army , indian states population, indigo planters, industry, insignificant extent, intercourse, iran, Jack, jaipur, jaunpur, john, john smith, kafiri, kallan, kamma caste, kashmir, khol, kolar gold field, Kshi, labour acts, languages of india, largest towns, lawrence school, ledger, lestock, Lewis McIver, limestone, lister, Lumsdaine, madras caste population, madras mahratta, madras province caste, madras province caste census, madras province vellalas, Mahishya Caste in Bengal, making mention of the complaint , mali, marine, market, marriage distribution, married population, massacre, maternal, meerut, minuteness, mistry, Morgan, mr. ibbetson, munro, Nationality, Language, necessary complement to secular instruction, nepal, nepali, Nizam, north east provinces, North-West, number of people, oakley, occupation railway building, occupation that prevails, ode, onge, or railway, oxford, Parel, parsees, *.pdf, plague, playing cards, Plowden, polygamy, poon, population Bombay, population by region, population of European, population women, postal, prince, railway labourers, rajput, rajputana total population, ram, read, recommendations of hunter commission, religion buddhism, religion tables, Report on Bengal, respectable, Rewa, rice, roch, roche, roome, Rowl*, russell, sabha, Salvation %26 Army, savantvadi, Sawara of Madras province, scales, science, scrivener, sentinel, sex ratio 1901, shiva, shorten, sir richard temple, spain, sport, stan*, stick, stuart, Such was, in brief, the scope, swift, Syed, Table 15, Tailors, tal, tea and Assam, tea assam, tea estates, tea plantations, telegraph service, text book, The Deputy Commissioner, Ellichpur, Three classes of indigenous agency , tibeto-burman, tiger hunting, tippoo, total urban population, Town, tribes , Uma, under the collective of christian, University, university of bombay, vannia, victoria, voyage, Warden, water, watkins, wellesley, Welsh, width of their noses, william jones, With very rare excerptions, the whole of an, wright, wyndham, yogi,


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