CHAPTER XII 



Population question Table showing population and its increase 

 every ten years Early marriage and tendency to rapid in- 

 crease Tendency checked by fevers and other diseases 

 Agricultural population cannot increase so rapidly as a manu- 

 facturing population The leaders and teachers must impress 

 on the people the need of reducing rate of increase The alter- 

 native is disease, misery, and famine Room in India for 

 increase of numbers, but the increase must not exceed about 

 one million a year Strong comments Table VIII. 



WE have now to consider what is called the popula- 

 tion question. The population of India has been 

 increasing rapidly in the last fifty years. The 

 following Table VIII has been prepared from the 

 Imperial Gazetteer of India, published 1909, vol. i, 

 page 459, and from the Statistical Abstract Relating 

 to British India, published in 1921 (c.m.d. 1425), and 

 from the Supplement to the Gazette of India, April 9, 

 1921, giving the census taken March 18, 1921. 



Table No. VIII shows that the population of 

 India, including the Native States, according to 

 the census returns, was in 1872 about 206,000,000 

 (it is thought that the census, and particularly that 

 of the Native States, was incomplete), in 1881 about 

 254,000,000, in 1891 about 287,000,000, in 1901 

 about 294,000,000, for 1911 about 315,000.000, and 



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