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land for Dhononjoypara, and 399 acres for Gopalhati. This estimate for
Dhononjoypara is quite consistent with the Revisional Settlement data, but
for Gopalhati, the fi gure projects a slight variation in the estimation, the
reason remains unknown to us (Table 3).
TABLE 3:
Demographic data for villages Dhononjoypara and Gopalhati (selected years
1951-2011)
Village Dhononjoypara
Village Gopalhati
Year
Number
of HH
Total
Popula-
tion
Male Female Literacy
Number
of HH
Total
Popula-
tion
Male
Female
Literacy
1951 No
data
350
No
data
No
data
No data
90
380
No
data
No
data
No
data
1961
72
371
195
176
15.36
93
513
264
249
11.11
1974
62
348
164
84
2069
151
959
478
481
11.57
1985
105
660
345
316
23.60
196
1207
631
576
14.17
2011
199
915
471
444
43.60
299
1964
997
967
44.50
Source: Census reports 1957, 1961, 1974 and field study 1984-85; field reports, 2011.
According to the village census that was administered during the fi eld
work (August 1984 to August 1985), there were 660 people in Dhonon-
joypara, of which 591 (89.55%) were Muslims and the remaining 69
(10.45%) were from a tribal community named the Santal. In Gopalhati,
out of a total 1207 people, Muslims constituted 1142 (94.61%) while 65
(5.39%) were the Hindus. The average household sizes for Dhononjoypara
and Gopalhati were 6.28 and 6.18 persons respectively which were slight-
ly higher than the national average. Data gathered from my revisitation of
the villages indicate that there has been a sharp increase in the population
in recent years and the statistics show that within a span of 25 years, the
increase rate of population growth in both villages has gone up to 80% and
it is suspected that it will take only 4-5 years to double the percentages
(Table 3).
To have a clear picture of population growth in Dhononjoypara and
Gopalhati, a demographic view of the villages since 1951 to present time
