For district-level figures from the provincial and state volumes, see the District tables. This page holds the full transcription of Census of India, 1931, Vol. I Part II, Table XV Part I (mother tongue). There is one row for each language or group in each province, state or agency where it was returned. The Source link opens the printed page on the Internet Archive, so you can check any figure against the scan. Figures are shown as printed. Click ! beside a name to read the transcriber’s note on that printed column. A mark beside a figure flags that cell: ! printed inconsistency, ? illegible, Σ calculated. Rows marked Σ are group totals the table does not print, added up from their members.
| Language / group | Province, state or agency | Persons | Males | Females | % of unit | % of India’s speakers | F / 1,000 M | Source |
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Part II: subsidiary languages
Table XV Part II (printed pp. 510–512) gives, for 54 mother tongues, the people who returned a second language and which one. These are partial returns from the provinces named, not complete counts. Rows marked ≠ belong to entries whose printed breakdown does not add up to the printed total. bilingual.csv
| Mother tongue | Second language (as printed) | Persons | % of speakers | Speakers covered | Returned bilingual | Source |
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The printed pages
Table XV Part I runs across 38 printed pages (pp. 472–509; scan leaves 477–514). Each link opens the page on the Internet Archive. The transcription files for each page are in source/transcribed/.