ABSTRACT
The revival of Dacca as an important centre of administration, education, trade and commerce eventually led to a growth in population and in physical structure. Employers generally preferred these up-country men because of their physical strength and supposed courage as coolies and guards. Many of them were also employed by the government as policemen, barkandazes and peons. The arrival of labourers from Upper India and Bihar, of the English-educated Bengalis, and of traders, artisans and labourers from the rural areas of the district of Dacca gradually raised the Hindu population above the Muslim. The decline and revival of the population of Dacca which have just been traced were matched by a contraction and subsequent expansion of the physical structure of the city. When the population of Dacca began to rise substantially again, mostly by immigration, the newcomers settled down wherever accommodation was available.
