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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

I. PilOGRESS AND PRESENT POSITION OF THE POPULATION.

The population in the following table is in millions and two decimals,

British Territory.

Year

i Area in sq. nils. 1 Population

Year

Area in sq. nils.

Population

1861 1871 1881

856,000 196-00 860,000 195-84 875,186 199-20

1891 1901 1911

964,993 1,097,901 1.097,82]

221-38 231-60 244-27

Here follow the leading details of the census of Maich 15, 1901 and that of March 10, 1911 : —

British Provinces "

Area in

square miles

(1001)

236,7?.S

Po]>ulation in 1911

i:?,ll.'i,217

Population in 1901

10,490,624

Increase or Decrease 1901-1911

Pop. per

sq. mile

1901

Burma

1,624,593

44

Eastern Bengal ami

Assam i

100,130

34,018,527

30,510,344

3,508.183

202

Bengal

115,810

52,668,209

50,715,704

1.952,475

43S

United Provinces :—

Agra .... 0\i(lh.

83,108 23,960

34,624,040 12,558,004

34,859,109 12,833,168

419 5.37

Total United Pro-

vinces

107,164

47,182,044

47,692,277

510,233

446

Ajmer-Merwara.

2,711

501,395

476,912 20,330,-337

24,483

176

Puni'ab

North-West Frontier

97,200

19,974,956

353381

209

Province. Baluchistan (British)^

16,466 45,804

2,196,933 414,412

2,041,534 382,106

155,399 32,306

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Bombay (Presidency): — Bombay , Sind .... Aden

75,918

47,066

80

16,113,042

3,513,435

46,165

19,672,642

15,304,760

3,210,910

43,974

808,276

302,525

2,191

201

68

549

Total Bombay.

123,064

18,559,6.50

1,112,992

'

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Central Provinces and

Ber^r Coorg .... Madras Andamans and Nice-

100,345

1,582

141,726

13,91 6,. 308

174,076

41,405,404

11,971,452

180,607

38,229,654

1,944,856

5.631

3,175,750

119 115 269

bars.

3,143

26,459

24,649

1,810 12, (■.], 602

8

Total Provinces

1,007,901

244,267,542

231,605,940

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1 Includes Mani]iur and Hill Tippera.

2 Districts and administered territories. .

'■^ Does m)t sliow the new provinces which were establi-shed in 1012, subsequent to the census.