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POPULATION OF INDIA. SMALL INCREASE IN 10 YEARS.
SOCIAL CHANGES.
The fifth uniform census of India was taken on March 18th, 1941, and the final report of the Commissioner, Me. J. T. Martet, has been issued.
The outstanding result of the census was to show the small advance made in actual population. The people of the Indian Empire were found to number a little under 319,000,000, an advance of 1.3 per cent, as compared with more than 7 per cent in the previous period.
The main cause of, the difference was the great influenza epidemia of 1918-19. At the time the home public was shocked to read that in the course of a few montes some six million people had been swept away by the epidemic. The census has established the fact that the actus! mortality was more than double this total, and that about 4 per cent of the vast population of India perished.
Owing to the complete breakdown of the reporting staff in beavily flicted areas, the registration of vital statistics was in many cases suspended during the of the epidemic. The case progress mortality has been put roughly at kut 10 per cent, and on this basis, the tal number of persons affected Wight 125 millions, or two-fifths of the whole population. The scourge came when the economic resisting power of the people had been greatly weakened by a succes sion of bad seasons Such factors peed to be taken into account in estimating the causes of the unrest which marked the introduction of constitutional reforms.
Qwing in the main to the effect of the war in stimulating industrial develop ment, the proportion of the people living in towns advanced from 9.4 to 10.2 per cent. It should be borne in mind, howi ever, that, apart from the great seaports and some balf-dozen industrial centres inland, the municipal areas do not come up to Western standards of townshipa Bombay and Calcutta have between them a total population of some 23 millions, but even when these and a few other great aggregations are included the average population of "towns" is little more than 14,000, while that of vil- lagen" is 417.
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No section of the report will be studied more closely than that dealing with edu cation. Excluding childred under five years of age from the computation, 82 persons in every thousand of the popula tion are able to write a simple letter in the vernacular and to read the reply. In the case of males the figure is 120, and in that of females it is only 21.
While there is not anything inherent in the Indian tradition that should hamper the development of the educa tion of the male population, the ease is different, except in Burma, in regard to women. It is unquestionable that the women of India owe the growing facilities offered them for learning to read and write to the influence of foreign standards and ideals on the men of the community. The number of literate persons in India rose during the decade from 18.5 to 92.8 millons, or 22 per cent, against an in- "crease in the population of only 1.2 per cent At the age of ten and over there are now 23 females per thousand who can read and write, as compared with 13 ten years earlier.
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EARLY MARRIAGE DECREASE.
A noteworthy social change, also aris ing from foreign influence, is the increase in the numbers of those in the early age categories who are still unmarried in a land where early wedlock, is bound up with religious ideas. Forty years ago only 431 females per 10,000 between the ages of ten and 15 werd unmarried. The propertion in Dow 601; while between the ages of five and ten the advance has been from 874 to 907. These figures re- veal the still widespread observance of infant and child marriage, but there is evidence to show that the age of marriage is rising, especially in the case of males
The proportion of the widowed, and especially of widowers, has increased, in the case of the widowers owing to high mortality of the women, and in the case of widows owing to some extent to the increase in orthodoxy of the Lower Hindu castes and tribes. As Dr. Rabin- dranath Tagore shows in his newly translated novel Gora," the lower castes are often more particular than the "twice born "Brahmins to observe cus toms which seem to give them a place, however humble, on the social ladder.
In the chapter on language attention is drawn to the tendency for the minor languages and dialects to be displaced by stronger and more developed tongues. The aboriginal forms of speech suffer decay wherever they come into contact with the Aryan languages. The necessity of a common medium, of conversation and intercourse outside English-speaking cirules has given rise to a form of bilin- gualism and the consequent displacement of tribal languages. There is a cotamon alement in the main languages of North- ern and Central India which renders their speakers, without any great con- scious change in their language, mutually intelligible to one another, and this comb- mon basis already forms the beginninga of a lingua franca over a large part of the peninsula-Times.
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