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LONDON, June 3. The Associated Press correspondent at New Delhi points out that a divided India would mean Hindustan would contain 198,000,000 people, Pakistan 85,000,000. and the Princely States 8,000,000. The greatest industrial and agricultural wealth would be contained in Hindustan, including India’s three biggest cities—Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, as well as thq national capital, New Delhi. Pakistan would have in the Punjab the best irrigation system, the rich jute crop in Eastern Bengal, and most of the limited oil resources of Sind and Baluchistan.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 7
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