Show depopulation OF INDIA famine and cholera aping out the people ery fast the depopulate on of india through famine and cholera is ahsu ning alarming proportions the latest advices fram t mia say the census returns of the central pi evinces show a decrease of over a mill on s nee 1891 when un der normal cond t oos an increase of a m alion and a half m have been expected it is esti bated that five millions have d ed in india since 1896 from causes directly due to the famine in western ind a things are even worse the Odey poor state returns eho v a decrease of 84 or 45 per cent of the pop ilat on the state of shows a decrease of the d strict of banda sl owe a decrease of 10 and so on in bombay city the population diminished by 50 the local ties wh ch escaped the plague sho v a satisfactory though un compensating increase H or instance madras which gained 8 per cent since 1801 |