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Population&Production in India 1920 - 1932

Volume : 23
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 31 - 37
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Abstract


The increase of 10.5 per cent in the population of India between 1920 anfg 1920 and 1930 has created considerable uneasiness in many quarters.The author of the Census Report.1931,views of with alarm and this is shared by a large number of publicists.Mr.Mr,R.W.Brock.formerly the Editor of Capital.Made the following statement at a meting of the East India Association in 1932:-'So far as the official figures indicate there has certainly not been any increase in India's agricultural and industrial production.in any way proportionate to the increase of her population.and the only possible infeence appears to be that there has been a fall in the average income and therefore the average standard of living.'2this starting statement challenges a statistialbexamination of the problem.

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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