MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

RELIGION.

RELIGION has been a full time occupation and the main source of income of some persons in the district. Of such persons, the most numerous are the priests and ministers of religion and religious mendicants. Then there are those engaged in temples, and burial and burning ghats, inmates of monasteries; catechists, readers in churches and those in missionary services are also included. The number occupied in this profession decreased between the years 1911 and 1931. The following table shows the figures at the various censuses after 1911:-

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