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Lakshadweep (Malayalam: [lɐkʂɐd̪βʷiːbɨ̆]) is a union territory of India.It is an archipelago of 36 islands [a] divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel.
Under the Mughal Empire, India experienced a high economic and demographic upsurge, [38] due to Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production. [39] 15% of the population lived in urban centres, higher than the percentage of the population in 19th-century British India [40] and contemporary Europe [40] up until the 19th ...
During the decade of 2001–2011, India's annual population growth rate has slowed down from 2.15 percent to 1.76 percent. [7] Based on decennial census data, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has the fastest growth rate of 55.1 percent, followed by Meghalaya (27.8 percent) and Arunachal Pradesh (25.9 percent).
As of the 2011 India census, [3] the island of Amini had a population of 7,657. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Amini has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%, with 55% of the males and 45% of females literate. 15% of the ...
Mahl people refers to an ethnic group of India (i.e., people of Minicoy and migrant communities from Minicoy islands). They speak the Mahl dialect of Divehi which is a member of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages. [1] All Mahls are native to Minicoy Island in the Union territory of Lakshadweep.
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area (635,780 km 2 or 245,480 sq mi) and 20% of India's population.
India announced plans for a new naval base off the country’s south-west coast and close to Maldives, as tensions are running high between Delhi and the island nation. ... India’s Lakshadweep ...
The 1971 census of India was the 11th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872 ... Lakshadweep: 31,810 Pondicherry: 471,707 ... Demographics of ...