3
?The following table indicates the places from which the extraordinarily
mixed population of Bombay is drawn :-
Birth places.
  1872.
1881.
1891.
1901.
1906.
Bombay City
200,613
214,685
205 732
181,834
203,692
Bombay Presidency
355,437
456,586
488,938
477,650
636,974
Other Provinces of India
61,3251
88,355
69 619
10,925
110,037
127,094
101 085

137,156
Asia, other than India
5,757

7,907

6,467

6,304


Europe
4,950

6,023 

7,663

7,707
116,522

Africa
1 275

619 

736

694


Americas
87

114

170

162


Other places  
114,961

17,643 

2,021

570


10. Of the total population only about 21 per cent ., according to the
Census of 1906, are born within the City. Since 1872 there has been a progressive fall in the proportion of Bombay born citizens and a corresponding rise in
the proportion of those belonging to districts in the Presidency.



Districts in
Outside
Year.
Total.
Bombay born.
Bombay
Bombay



Presidency.
Presidency.


Per cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
1872
644,405
31.1
55.1
13.7
1881
773,196
27.7
59.0
13.1
1891
821,764
25.0
59.4
15.4
1901
776,006
23.4
61.5
15.0
1906
977,822
20.8
65.1
14.0
As has already been mentioned, besides those who come from other places
and settle down permanently or for a few years in Bombay, a very large
proportion of the total population is composed of people who come to the City
in search of employment at certain times of the year, and leave again after a
few months to return to their own homes. The floating population of this kind
is probably not less than 150,000 to 200,000 persons. The influx of these people
commences in November and continues throughout the dry weather. The exodus
occurs in May and June. As the Census figures are recorded in February or
March, they include nearly the whole of this temporary floating population.
The following Districts and States in the Bombay Presidency contribute
very largely to the City population :-
District.
1901.
1906.
Ratnágiri
145,835
221,572
Poona
64,791
76,138
Sátára
60,387
61,777
Káthiáwár
45,531
67,803
Cutch
28,179
38,112
Surat
25,097
38,934
Kolába
21,100
29,867
11. The following table shows the population according to race, etc. :-

1872.
1881.
1891.
1901.
1906.
Hindu
408,680
502,851
568,501
508,608
786,154
Jain
15,121
17,218
…
14,248

Mussulman
138,815
158,713
165,247
155,747
168,677
Christians Native
25,119
30,708
29,432
29,645
30,223
European and Eurasian
9,605
11,619
15,878
15,531
18,285
Parsi
44,091
48,597
47,458
46,231
48,824
Others
2,974
3,490
5,248
5,996
5,659