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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.
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

1. Excluding Aden, area 75 square miles, population 44,079.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A rough enumeration of the inhabitants of British Balúchistán, excluding Quetta, returned a population of 145,417.