128 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES
V. Principal Towns. The urban population of India in 1901 was as follows :-
Towns with
No.
Population
Over 100,000
50,000—100,000 .... 20,000— 50,000 .... 10,000— 20,000 .... 5,000— 10,000 .... Under 5,000 . . . .
31 52 167 471 857 570
2,148
6,605,837 3,414,188 4,940,251 6,457,339 5,945,905 1,880,701
Total
29,244,221
The population (1911) of the principal towns of India was as follows :-
Towns Population
Calcutta ( with
suburbs) .1,222,313
Bombay .
Madras .
Hyderabad
Rangoon
Lucknow
Delhi .
Lahore .
Ahmedabad
Benares .
Bangalore
Agra
Cawnpore
Allahabad
Poona
Amritsar
Karachi .
Mandalay
Jaipur
Patna
Madura .
Bareilly .
Srinagar .
Trichinopoly
979,445 518,660 500.623 293,316 259,798 232,837 228,687 215,835 203,804 189,485 185,449 178,557 171,697 158,856 152,756 151,903 138,299 137,098 136,153 134,130 129,462 126,344 122,028
Towns
Meerut .
Surat
Dacca
Nagpur .
Jubbulpore
Baroda .
Multan .
Peshawar
Rawalpindi
Ajmer
IMoraddbad
Urnballa.
Calicut .
Bhagalpur
Rainpur .
Shahjahtinpur
Mysore .
Aligarh(Koil)
Sholapur
Salem
Bhopal .
Fyzabad
Gaya
Lashkar .
Mirzapur
Population 116,227 114,863 108,551 101,415 100,651 99,345 99,243 97,935 86,483 86,222 81,168 80,131 78,417 74,349 74,316 71,778 71,806 64,825 61,345 59,153 56,204 54,655 49,921 46,952 32,446
Towns Population
Jullundur (1901) 67,735
Farukliabad
67,338
Imphal .
67,093
Saharanpur
66,254
Darbhanga
66,244
Gorakhpur
64,148
Jodhpur .
60,437
Hubli .
60,214
Muttra .
60,042
Kumbakonam,,
59,673
Moulmein
58,446
Bellary .
58,247
Sialkot .
57,956
Trivandrum
57,882
Taujore .
57,870
Negapatani
57,190
Alwar
56,771
Jhansi .
55,724
Kolhapur
54,373
Navanagai
53,844
Patiala .
53,545
Coimbatore
53,080
Bikaner ,
53,075
Cuddalore
52,216
Cuttack .
51,364
