The Indian Census by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

The Indian Census

By Editor

The Indian Census.—Our India correspondent refers to the census about to be taken in India when he wrote. Our last London Times gives the result. The total population is declared at 315,000,000, an increase of 20,500,000 in the last decade. The Times tells us that "the pressure of population is still far less than in England. Two thirds of the people of India live within a quarter of its area. There are vast unoccupied lands which have still to be populated. The waste areas of Assam have become a byword. Branch railways are constantly opening up new territory, irrigation is always bringing derelict land under cultivation. . . . The problem of the Indian population is to distribute the people more evenly. . . . The result of the Indian census makes it additionally clear that when King George is crowned in Westminster Abbey next June he will be crowned as monarch of one fourth of the entire human race."