of industrial workers to rural population has steadily
decreased

Year.

% °f population de-       % of population
pendent on agri-      engaged in industry,
culture.

1891
1911
1921
1931
1941

61.1
66.5
72.2
73.0
74.0

5,5
4.9
4.3
4.2

India is not over-populated. It is over-populated
only in the sense, as Car Saunders puts it, that 'There
are too many people in relation to the whole set of
facts." The British Government's acts of omis-
sion and commission are responsible for the result.
OVER-BURDENED LAND
The rural-urban ratio in population has remained
almost the same.

Census year.
1872
1881
1891
1901
1911
1921
1931

Rural
91.28
90.59
90.54
90.65
90.65
89.70
89.00

Urban.
8,72
9.41
9.46
9.35
9.35
10.30
11.00

These facts show that people prefer to over-bur-
den the land as there is no scope for the industrial
worker.
And the land thus over-burdened is deteriorating
for want of governmental effort to increase the agri-
cultural yield.
The proportion of working population to persons
engaged in industries will also prove the hopelessness
on the situation.
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