Population and settlement (India and world)
India: population composition
Concepts to cover
- Rural-urban composition and its state pattern
- Language families of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austric, Sino-Tibetan) and scheduled languages
- Religious composition and regional concentration
- Sex ratio and child sex ratio by state
- Literacy rate patterns; main, marginal and non-workers; sectoral occupational structure
Where to study
India: People and Economy, Class XII, chapter 1: Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 1, Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition, p. 1-14 (book pages 1-14)
- ch. 1, Rural – Urban Composition, p. 8-9 (book pages 8-9)
- ch. 1, Linguistic Composition, p. 9 (book page 9)
- ch. 1, Linguistic Classification, p. 9 (book page 9)
- ch. 1, Religious Composition, p. 9-10 (book pages 9-10)
- ch. 1, sex, p. 8 (book page 8)
- ch. 1, Composition of Working Population, p. 11 (book page 11)
- ch. 1, Occupational Categories, p. 12 (book page 12)
Geography of India · Majid Husain
- ch. 13, Cultural Setting and Population
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 3: Human Development (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 3, sex ratio, p. 3 (book page 15)