. A complete geography . e three great rivers be-came the seat of early the very earliest times thepeople have been engaged in farm-ing, and at present fully three-fifthsof the population follow that occu-pation. As there are 287,000,000 inhabi-tants in an area of about 1,559,000square miles, it will be seen that thereis an average of 184 persons for everysquare mile; and in parts of the comi-try there are 500 per square mile. Thedensity of population may be betterunderstood by remembering that thereare only twenty persons per squaremile in the United States. There are,in fac
. A complete geography . e three great rivers be-came the seat of early the very earliest times thepeople have been engaged in farm-ing, and at present fully three-fifthsof the population follow that occu-pation. As there are 287,000,000 inhabi-tants in an area of about 1,559,000square miles, it will be seen that thereis an average of 184 persons for everysquare mile; and in parts of the comi-try there are 500 per square mile. Thedensity of population may be betterunderstood by remembering that thereare only twenty persons per squaremile in the United States. There are,in fact, almost as many people inIndia as in North America, South America, and Africa together. Millet, which grows on the dryer lands, and rice, which is raisedon the river lowlands where the land can be flooded, are the staplefoods of the natives. After the dense population is fed, however,little is left for export. Wheat, on the other hand, is raised for ex-port, and India is a vast granary for Great Britain. Much cotton is. Fig. tea plant. INDIA 481 also produced. Some of this is manufactured into coarse fabrics foruse at home and for export to China and Africa; but much is ex-ported as raAv cotton for use in the cotton mills of Great BritainOther agricultural products are tea, sugar-cane, tobacco, opium ob-tained from a species of poppy, indigo of value as a dye, and jutegrown upon the sandy river bars for the sake of its coarse, strono- fibre
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