Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — India's Big Towns. [ARTICLE]

India's Big Towns.

India has 2,035 towns with an aggregate population of 27,251,176, about one-tenth of the total population. Of these towns twenty-eight have over 100,000 Inhabitants, forty-eight more than 50,000, and 556 more over 10,000. The largest are Bombay, 821,764; Calcutta, 771,144; Madras, 452,518; Hyderabad, 415,080; Lucknow, 273*028; Benares, 210,467; Delhi, 192,579; Mandalay, 188,815; Cawnpore, 188,712; Bangalore, 186,300; Rangoon, 183,324; Lahore, 176,854; Allahabad, 175,246.