WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES APPENDIX XII COMMUNAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION BY MINORITIES IN THE PROVINCES OF BRITISH INDIA

WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES

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Appendices
Appendix XII : Communal Distribution of Population by Minorities in the Provinces of British India

APPENDIX XII

COMMUNAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION BY MINORITIES IN THE PROVINCES OF BRITISH INDIA

		Muslims		Scheduled Castes		Indian Christians		Sikhs
Province	Total
	Population	Population	%	Population	%	Population	%	Population	%
Ajmere-Merwara	583,693	89,899	15.4	Nil	—	3,895	.8	867	.15
Andaman Nicobar	33,768	8,005	23.7	Nil	—	779	2.3	744	2.2
Assam	10,204,733	3,442,479	33.7	676,291	6.6	37,750	.4	3,464	.03
British Baluchistan	.501,631	438,930	87.5	5,102	1.0	2,633	.5	11,918	2.3
Bengal	60,306,525	33,005,434	54.7	7,878,970	13.0	110,923	.2	16,281	.03
Bihar*	36,340,151	4,716,314	12.9	4,840,379	13.3	24,693	.07	13,213	.04
Bombay	20,849,840	1,820,368	9.2	1,855,148	8.9	338,812	1.6	8,011	.04
Central Province & Berer*.	16,813,584	783,697	4.7	3,051,413	18.1	48,260	.3	14,996	.09
Coorg	168,726	14,780	8.8	25,740	15.3	3,309	2.0	Nil	—
Delhi	917,9.39	304,971	33.2	121,693	13.3	10,494	1.1	16,157	1.8
Madras	49,341,810	3,896,452	7.9	8,068,492	16.4	2,001,082	4.06	418	.001
N.W.F.P.	3,038,067	2,788,797	91.8	Nil		5.426	.2	57,989	1.9
Orissa	8,728,544	146,301	1.7	1,238,171	14.2	26,584	.3	232	.003
Punjab	28,418,819	16,217,242	57.0	1,248,635	4.4	486,038	1.7	3,757,401	13.2
Pant Piploda	5,267	251	4.8	918	17.4	216	4.1	Nil	—
Sind	4,229,221	3,054,635	72.2	191,634	4.5	13,232	.3	31,011	.7
United Provinces*	55,020,617	8,416,308	15.3	11,717,158	21.3	131,327	.2	232,445	.4
Total	295,502,935	79,344,863	26.9	40,919,744	13.9	3,245,453	1	4,155,147	1
*Bihar	28,823,802	4,168,470	14.4	3,919,619	13.6	12,651	.04	3,204	.01
Chota Nagpur	7,516,349	547,844	7.3	420,760	5.6	12,042	.2	10,009	.1
*C.P.	13,208,718	448,528	3.4	2,359,836	17.9	42,135	.3	12,766	.1
Berar	3,604,866	335,169	9.3	691,577	19.2	6,125	.2	2,230	.05
Agra	40,906,147	6,231,062	15.2	8,018,803	19.6	120,549	.3	226,096	.5
Oudh	14,114,470	2,185,246	15.5	3,698,355	26.2	10,778	.08	6,349	.05

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