5 INTRODUCTION
  Chapter 1
13 THE POPULATION OF SOUTH ASIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
  Chapter 2
  REGULAR CENSUSES OF THE POPULATION IN INDIA
32 [introduction.]
48 SAMPLE SURVEYS IN INDIA
  Chapter 3
  INDIA’S POPULATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SIZE, DENSITY, DISTRIBUTION
51 THE OVERALL SIZE AND DENSITY OF INDIA’S POPULATION. THE POPULATION AND THE NATURAL RESOURCES
60 THE REGION-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF INDIA’S POPULATION
  Chapter 4
  THE NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION OF INDIA
69 THE NATIONAL COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION
76 RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
  Chapter 5
  THE SEX AND AGE COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION
88 THE SEX COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION
96 THE AGE DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION
  Chapter 6
109 THE TOTAL GROWTH OF THE POPULATION OF INDIA
  Chapter 7
  NATURAL POPULATION GROWTH
136 THE BIRTH-RATE
145 MORTALITY
163 NATURAL POPULATION GROWTH
  Chapter 8
170 MIGRATION AND POPULATION GROWTH
  Chapter 9
195 URBANISATION. THE GROWTH OF THE URBAN POPULATION
  Chapter 10
224 LITERACY AND EDUCATION
  Chapter 11
244 POPULATION AND THE ECONOMY
271 SUPPLEMENT
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