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Where communities concentrateRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Population bingoRead the answer and worked solution →During British rule, labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were shipped to Mauritius, Fiji and the Caribbean as:Read the answer and worked solution →The time-bound contract system for colonial plantation labour was known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Portuguese sent labour from Goa, Daman and Diu to work in:Read the answer and worked solution →A steady outflow of Indian semi-skilled and skilled labour to West Asia followed the:Read the answer and worked solution →Doctors, engineers and later software professionals migrating to the USA, Canada and UK form the:Read the answer and worked solution →Migration was first recorded in the Census of India conducted in:Read the answer and worked solution →Place of birth and duration of residence were added to the Census in:Read the answer and worked solution →Reasons for migration were first incorporated in the Census of:Read the answer and worked solution →A person whose place of birth differs from the place of enumeration is a:Read the answer and worked solution →In the 2011 Census, migrants by place of last residence numbered about:Read the answer and worked solution →How many streams of internal migration does the Census identify?Read the answer and worked solution →Short distance rural to rural migration streams are dominated by:Read the answer and worked solution →Most of the 5 million people who migrated into India came from:Read the answer and worked solution →Which state occupied first place in attracting migrants from other states?Read the answer and worked solution →The state with the largest number of net out-migrants is:Read the answer and worked solution →Poverty and population pressure that make people leave a place are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Regular work and higher wages that attract migrants to cities are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The main cause of male migration is work and employment; for females it is:Read the answer and worked solution →Marriage migration of females is reversed in which state?Read the answer and worked solution →A major benefit for the source region of migrants is:Read the answer and worked solution →In 2002 India received how much in remittances from international migrants?Read the answer and worked solution →A negative consequence of unregulated migration to industrial states is the growth of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the pull factorsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the migration streamsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the migration wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Sends or receivesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Where communities concentrate

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Items
  1. Group
    Muslims
    Item
    Kashmir
  2. Group
    Muslims
    Item
    Lakshadweep
  3. Group
    Christians
    Item
    Goa coast
  4. Group
    Christians
    Item
    Kerala coast
  5. Group
    Christians
    Item
    Meghalaya
  6. Group
    Sikhs
    Item
    Punjab
  7. Group
    Sikhs
    Item
    Haryana
  8. Group
    Sikhs
    Item
    Delhi
Groups
  1. Item
    Muslims
  2. Item
    Christians
  3. Item
    Sikhs
Instructions
Drop each place onto the community concentrated there.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1210
    Question
    India's population in 2011, in millions
  2. Answer
    382
    Question
    Persons per sq km in 2011
  3. Answer
    117
    Question
    Persons per sq km in 1951
  4. Answer
    22
    Question
    Scheduled languages, about
  5. Answer
    1881
    Question
    Year of the first complete Census
  6. Answer
    4
    Question
    Language families of the major Indian languages
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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Population bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Count held every 10 years.
    Item
    Census
  2. Clue
    First complete Census.
    Item
    1881
  3. Clue
    Persons per sq km in 2011.
    Item
    382
  4. Clue
    Lowest density, 17 per sq km.
    Item
    Arunachal
  5. Clue
    Highest density, 11,297.
    Item
    Delhi
  6. Clue
    Lowest decadal growth, 9.4.
    Item
    Kerala
  7. Clue
    Aged 15 to 29 under NYP 2014.
    Item
    Youth
  8. Clue
    Scheduled language with most speakers.
    Item
    Hindi
  9. Clue
    Growth from migration, not births.
    Item
    Induced
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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