Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — India's Growth and Population. [ARTICLE]

India's Growth and Population.

The number of persons to the square mile in India in 1901 (the last census) was 42.390. Of the total of 21)4.361,056 who constituted the population at the last census, more than 200.000,000 were Hindus. The Christians number 2.923.241. There was an amazing pre{*onderanee of widows over widowers in that country. Of Hindus there were 6.000.000 widowers and 19,000,000 widows, and of Mohammedans there were 1.300.000 widowers and 4,500.000 widows, and so ofi with other races. The taxation , per head in India has grown from 75 cents in 1895 to 84 cents in .1905, and the debt lias grown in that time from* $985,000,000 to| $1,155.(*i0.01i0. / -The; •imports rose from $225;000.000 in .1899. to nearly ’ S.32OA#M 1,000 >n 1905. while ,tSe e*j»orts’Tn flie same perTodTucreased from $365,000,000 to nearly $515,000,000. .