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Australasia
4,662,000
British North America
5,500,000
Africa (Dutch and British)[2]
1,000,000
India
169,677
West Indies and Bermuda
100,000
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53,040,468
The native population of the empire includes types of the principal black, yellow and brown races, classing with these the high-type races of the East, which may almost be called white. The native population of India, mainly high type, brown, was returned at the census of 1901 as 294,191,379. The population of India is divided into 118 groups on the basis of language. These may, however, be collected into the following principal groups:?
(A) Malayo-Polynesian.
(B) Indo-Chinese:
i. Mon-Khmer.
ii. Tibeto-Burman.
iii. Siamese-Chinese.
(C) Dravido-Mu???:
i. Mu??? (Kolarian).
ii. Dravidian.
(D) Indo-European.
Indo-Aryan sub-family.
(E) Semitic.
(F) Hamitic.
(G) Unclassed, e.g. Gipsy.
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Ceylon, high type, brown and mixed |
3,568,824 |
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Straits Settlements, brown, mixed and Chinese |
570,000 |
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Hong-Kong, Chinese and brown |
306,130 |
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North Borneo, mixed brown and Sarawak |
700,000 |
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5,144,954 |
Of the various races which inhabit these Eastern dependencies the most important are the 2,000,000 Sinhalese and the 954,000 Tamil that make up the greater part of the population of Ceylon. The rest is made up of Arabs, Malays, Chinese (in the Straits Settlements and Hong-Kong), Dyaks, Eurasians and others.
The West Indies, including the continental colonies of British Guiana and Honduras, and seventeen islands or groups of islands, have a total coloured population of about 1,912,655. The colonies of this group which have the largest coloured populations are:?
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Jamaica?Chiefly black, some brown and yellow |
790,000 |
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Trinidad and Tobago?Black and brown |
250,000 |
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British Guiana?Black and brown |
286,000 |
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1,326,000 |
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The populations of the West Indies are very various, being made up largely of imported African negroes. In Jamaica these contribute four-fifths of the population. There are also in the islands a considerable number of imported East Indian coolies and some Chinese. The aboriginal races include American Indians of the mainland and Caribs. With these there has been intermixture of Spanish and Portuguese blood, and many mixed types have appeared. The total European population of this group of colonies amounts to upwards of 80,000, to which 15,000 on account of Bermuda may be added.
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Chiefly black, estimated |
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South |
5,211,329 |
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Central |
2,000,000 |
