Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Meera is preparing a school project on the state of India’s economy at the time of Independence. Her teacher gives her old census reports and asks her to find out how India’s population and income changed during British rule. Meera finds a census report for every ten years, starting from the late nineteenth century. When she looks for figures of the country’s national income for the same years, she finds very little that she can use.
Meera finds that the census records show a change in the pattern of India’s population growth during the colonial period. Before 1921, India was in which stage of demographic transition?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → The first stage
India was in the first stage of demographic transition before 1921. The second stage began after 1921, so 1921 is the dividing year.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.6 Demographic Condition Various details about the population of British India were first collected through a census in 1881. Though suffering from certain limitations, it revealed the unevenness in India’s population growth. Subsequently, every ten years such census operations were carried out. Before 1921, India was in the first stage of demographic transition. The second stage of transition began after 1921. …” |