TEEMING MILLIONS
INDIA’S LATEST CENSUS BIG PERCENTAGE ILLITERATE. CALCUTTA, September 21. (Received Sept. 21, at 11.15 p.m.) India’s census returns have just beeu published and give the population as 352,837,778, or nearly one-fifth of the inhabitants of the entire world. The literate portion of the population is only 8 per cent., while the blind exceed 000,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 7
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