The Population Problem in India

are likely to follow from an excessive increase of population. This report is one which ought to be read by every educated person in India, as it appears to contain a lesson for this country. Here are some of the facts. Within forty years (1800 to 1840) the population of Ireland more than doubled itself, and became more than eight millions. At least half the people depended on the potato for subsistence. Stephen Gwynn thus describes the state of affairs which existed about