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THE Government of India showed both a commendable wisdom and a grasp of the realities of the situation in publishing an abstract of the main statistics of the census of 1931 while the Third Round Table Conference was still in session in London. The figures which are included in the abstract are of the greatest significance. Indeed, they are vital for an appreciation of the essence of the matters under discussion. By sheer weight of numbers, they bring out the magnitude of the problems involved in the proposed constitutional changes; and by indicating tendencies in the movements of population, they afford guidance in judging the possibility of permanence in an arrangement which aims at the form of democracy, but will depend for its working upon a delicate adjustment of the relations between different sections of the people.
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The Census of India, 1931*. Nature 131, 109–111 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131109a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131109a0