Trend, pattern and analysis of internal labour migration in colonial India to post colonial India

The paper analyses the trend, pattern and description ofinternal migration from census 1891 to census 1931 in British India in colonial period and census 1961 to census 2011 in postcolonial India. The research studies the process, determinants and pattern ofinternal migration in colonial British India to post-colonial India after independence. The paper gives a frame work of study regarding to establish linkages between colonial migration and post-colonial migration in India. The methodology of the paper is based on retrospective to prospective approach of study because study frame work is focused on the analyses of history ofmigration with recent pattern of internal migration in present scenario. The findings of the study show that causes of migration were led by transformation in the agricultural based economy of the British colonial India. There were similarities, differences and linkages between colonial based internal migration and pattern of internal migration in post-colonial India but pattern of internal migration was led by same set of economic conditions from colonial British India to post-colonial India.