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
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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.
