ABSTRACT
The main problems in connection with the population of India are: that notwithstanding its great size, there is a steady increase in population by the persistent excess of births over deaths, and the relative quality and quantity of its food supply. The qualitative aspect of the Population problem has scarcely attracted any attention in the country at all. Deliberate limitation of families, spacing of children, and attention to eugenics or race-culture are matters hardly yet in the public consciousness of this country. The movement of population in India, however, is the result of factors which differ essentially from those in Western countries. Race, environment and dietary govern the sex-ratio at birth. It appears, on the whole, that there is a lower proportion of females born in North and North-Western India, where the Aryan and Semitic peoples preponderate than in the South and Central tracts of India, where the Dravidians race element is the strongest.
