The Government of India has now published the Census of
the -entire Empire taken in 1871-72. This census was taken with -extreme care, the officials being aided heartily by the enumerators, and it shows that the entire population of British India is 190,563,048, living on an area of 904,049 square miles ; while the population of India, including Native States, is 238,830,098, and the area 1,450,744. That is, India has nearly seven times the population of France, and seven times her area, which in Europe is 204,000 square miles. In British India there are 140i millions of Hindoos, 401 millions of Mohammedans, and N. millions of others, mostly Buddhists and Joins, the number of British-born inhabitants exclusive of the Army being throughout the entire Empire only 59,000, less than the population of a single large town.
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