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India has how many villages according to the 2011 Census?Read the answer and worked solution →The proportion of urban population in India, 31.16 percent, is low but is:Read the answer and worked solution →Modern India has about how many scheduled languages?Read the answer and worked solution →The scheduled language with the highest share of speakers is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the dense statesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Census yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the population wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Fast or slow growthRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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India has how many villages according to the 2011 Census?

  1. 640,867
  2. 100,000
  3. 1,000,000
  4. 250,000
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Correct answer: A. 640,867

1. Of these 93.2 percent are inhabited. 2. The count is over six lakh. 3. It is 640,867. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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The proportion of urban population in India, 31.16 percent, is low but is:

  1. Highest in the world
  2. Growing much faster
  3. Falling every decade
  4. Static for decades
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Correct answer: B. Growing much faster

1. Cities pull migrants from villages. 2. Economic development speeds this. 3. So urban share is growing much faster. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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Modern India has about how many scheduled languages?

  1. 18
  2. 50
  3. 22
  4. 179
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Correct answer: C. 22

1. Grierson counted 179 languages long ago. 2. The Constitution schedules a smaller set. 3. There are about 22. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition._

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