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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