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THE PEOPLE.
1891 (exclusive of Aden and the Andaman Islands) was in round figures 288 millions.
Name of Province. (Exclusive of the Native States attached to it.) | Area in square miles. | Total Population, 1891. | Number of Persons per square mile. | |||
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1. Government of Madras | 141,189 | 35,630,440 | 252 | |||
2. Government of Bombay[1]: | ||||||
Bombay | 77,275 | 125,127 | 15,985,270 | 18,857,044 | 206 | 150 |
Sind | 47,852 | 2,871,774 | 60 | |||
3. Lieut.-Governorship of Bengal | 151,543 | 71,346,987 | 460 | |||
4. Lieut.-Governorship of the Punjab | 110,667 | 20,866,847 | 188 | |||
5. Lieut.-Governorship of the North-Western Provinces and | 83,286 | 107,503 | 34,254,254 | 46,905,085 | 411 | 436 |
6. Chief Commissionership of Oudh | 24,217 | 12,650,831 | 522 | |||
7. Chief Commissionership of the Central Provinces | 86,501 | 10,784,294 | 124 | |||
8. Chief Commissionership of Burma[2]: | ||||||
Upper Burma | 80,473 | 168,448 | 2,946,933 | 7,605,560 | 35 | 45 |
Lower Burma | 87,975 | 4,658,627 | 52 | |||
9. Chief Commissionership of Assam | 49,004 | 5,476,833 | 111 | |||
10. Commissionership of Berar[3] | 17,718 | 2,897,491 | 163 | |||
11. Commissionership of Ajmere-Merwárá | 2,711 | 542,358 | 200 | |||
12. Commissionership of Coorg | 1,583 | 173,055 | 109 | |||
Quetta[4] | 27,270 | |||||
Total for British India | 961,994 | 221,113,264 | 229 |
- ↑ Excluding Aden, area 75 square miles, population 44,079.
- ↑ In Burma some returns were destroyed, and on the frontier there was only a rough enumeration; under these two heads there should be added an approximate population of 116,493.
- ↑ Berar consists of the six 'Assigned Districts.' They were made over to British administration by the Nizám of Haidarábád for the support of the Haidarábád Contingent, which he was bound by treaty to maintain, and in discharge of other obligations.
- ↑ A rough enumeration of the inhabitants of British Balúchistán, excluding Quetta, returned a population of 145,417.