PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census							PART A: Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages- India/ States/ Union Territories - 2001 Census
India/State/Union Territory#	1 ASSAMESE			2 BENGALI			India/State/Union Territory#	3 BODO			4 DOGRI			India/State/Union Territory#	5 GUJARATI			6 HINDI			India/State/Union Territory#	7 KANNADA			8 KASHMIRI			India/State/Union Territory#	9 KONKANI			10 MAITHILI			India/State/Union Territory#	11 MALAYALAM			12 MANIPURI			India/State/Union Territory#	13 MARATHI			14 NEPALI			India/State/Union Territory#	15 ORIYA			16 PUNJABI			India/State/Union Territory#	17 SANSKRIT			18 SANTALI			India/State/Union Territory#	19 SINDHI			20 TAMIL			India/State/Union Territory#	21 TELUGU			22 URDU
	Person	Males	Females	Person	Males	Females		Person	Males	Females	Person	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females		Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	1	8	9	10	11	12	13	1	14	15	16	17	18	19	1	20	21	22	23	24	25	1	26	27	28	29	30	31	1	32	33	34	35	36	37	1	38	39	40	41	42	43	1	44	45	46	47	48	49	1	50	51	52	53	54	55	1	56	57	58	59	60	61	1	62	63	64	65	66	67
India*	13,168,484	6,787,493	6,380,991	83,369,769	42,889,519	40,480,250	India*	1,350,478	683,191	667,287	2,282,589	1,204,275	1,078,314	India*	46,091,617	23,808,890	22,282,727	422,048,642	222,354,471	199,694,171	India*	37,924,011	19,301,286	18,622,725	5,527,698	2,860,097	2,667,601	India*	2,489,015	1,225,046	1,263,969	12,179,122	6,364,481	5,814,641	India*	33,066,392	16,117,179	16,949,213	1,466,705	734,604	732,101	India*	71,936,894	36,879,814	35,057,080	2,871,749	1,534,746	1,337,003	India*	33,017,446	16,858,455	16,158,991	29,102,477	15,316,258	13,786,219	India*	14,135	8,189	5,946	6,469,600	3,273,651	3,195,949	India*	2535485	1292699	1242786	60793814	30648376	30145438	India*	74002856	37403343	36599513	51536111	26837143	24698968
Jammu & Kashmir	6,070	5,655	415	14,416	12,017	2,399	Jammu & Kashmir	296	276	20	2,205,560	1,154,331	1,051,229	Jammu & Kashmir	3,936	3,144	792	1,870,264	1,031,257	839,007	Jammu & Kashmir	4,418	3,747	671	5,425,733	2,804,306	2,621,427	Jammu & Kashmir	90	52	38	575	417	158	Jammu & Kashmir	10,063	8,701	1,362	977	902	75	Jammu & Kashmir	14,432	10,819	3,613	8,199	5,787	2,412	Jammu & Kashmir	9,087	7,587	1,500	190,675	106,656	84,019	Jammu & Kashmir	19	17	2	267	201	66	Jammu & Kashmir	436	234	202	9,494	8,452	1,042	Jammu & Kashmir	7,509	6,119	1,390	13,251	8,293	4,958
Himachal Pradesh	447	338	109	4,772	3,158	1,614	Himachal Pradesh	16	14	2	18,777	9,861	8,916	Himachal Pradesh	2,779	1,455	1,324	5,409,758	2,736,486	2,673,272	Himachal Pradesh	390	259	131	50,192	26,695	23,497	Himachal Pradesh	25	15	10	2,015	1,588	427	Himachal Pradesh	1,231	786	445	68	45	23	Himachal Pradesh	1,679	1,032	647	70,272	42,346	27,926	Himachal Pradesh	3,990	3,229	761	364,175	184,163	180,012	Himachal Pradesh	236	180	56	236	222	14	Himachal Pradesh	75	40	35	1,066	728	338	Himachal Pradesh	1,176	751	425	4,787	3,146	1,641
Punjab	2,980	2,093	887	20,655	13,802	6,853	Punjab	104	85	19	18,034	10,811	7,223	Punjab	7,040	4,004	3,036	1,851,128	1,116,146	734,982	Punjab	4,001	2,869	1,132	2,411	1,717	694	Punjab	76	45	31	3,277	2,323	954	Punjab	10,669	7,279	3,390	504	359	145	Punjab	12,117	8,309	3,808	19,778	13,328	6,450	Punjab	10,345	7,024	3,321	22,334,369	11,756,744	10,577,625	Punjab	108	65	43	71	55	16	Punjab	462	245	217	12,339	8,538	3,801	Punjab	7,296	4,966	2,330	27,660	16,971	10,689
Chandigarh#	273	195	78	5,491	3,236	2,255	Chandigarh#	12	8	4	923	542	381	Chandigarh#	3,461	1,940	1,521	608,218	350,636	257,582	Chandigarh#	479	282	197	1,677	961	716	Chandigarh#	74	39	35	1,248	955	293	Chandigarh#	2,356	1,375	981	363	236	127	Chandigarh#	1,308	789	519	5,390	3,516	1,874	Chandigarh#	1,508	971	537	251,224	131,729	119,495	Chandigarh#	22	21	1	21	11	10	Chandigarh#	118	55	63	5,716	3,042	2,674	Chandigarh#	1,380	816	564	7,254	4,428	2,826
Uttaranchal	854	625	229	123,190	64,467	58,723	Uttaranchal	20	16	4	4,705	2,789	1,916	Uttaranchal	2,773	1,590	1,183	7,466,413	3,774,497	3,691,916	Uttaranchal	626	455	171	4,175	2,261	1,914	Uttaranchal	53	29	24	1,646	1,036	610	Uttaranchal	2,870	1,752	1,118	270	211	59	Uttaranchal	2,769	1,806	963	91,047	54,655	36,392	Uttaranchal	3,488	2,347	1,141	247,084	129,666	117,418	Uttaranchal	420	255	165	380	351	29	Uttaranchal	5,266	2,728	2,538	2,215	1,490	725	Uttaranchal	1,882	1,209	673	497,081	265,152	231,929
Haryana	2,048	1,368	680	39,199	24,034	15,165	Haryana	29	22	7	2,613	1,629	984	Haryana	5,734	3,110	2,624	18,460,843	9,937,098	8,523,745	Haryana	2,062	1,334	728	3,717	2,050	1,667	Haryana	206	97	109	11,799	8,367	3,432	Haryana	13,989	7,953	6,036	329	222	107	Haryana	8,794	5,290	3,504	20,362	13,899	6,463	Haryana	10,932	7,280	3,652	2,234,626	1,173,342	1,061,284	Haryana	204	148	56	178	146	32	Haryana	5,510	2,845	2,665	10,207	6,203	4,004	Haryana	6,248	3,911	2,337	260,687	140,038	120,649
Delhi#	6,329	3,873	2,456	208,414	115,111	93,303	Delhi#	222	154	68	6,974	4,192	2,782	Delhi#	45,145	23,324	21,821	11,210,843	6,186,251	5,024,592	Delhi#	10,525	5,554	4,971	21,325	11,204	10,121	Delhi#	1,767	847	920	85,331	54,589	30,742	Delhi#	92,009	45,954	46,055	2,020	1,210	810	Delhi#	26,472	14,416	12,056	44,367	27,997	16,370	Delhi#	29,178	18,349	10,829	988,980	509,052	479,928	Delhi#	288	193	95	364	225	139	Delhi#	42,841	21,576	21,265	92,426	47,939	44,487	Delhi#	28,067	14,902	13,165	874,333	483,117	391,216
Rajasthan	2,261	1,651	610	54,172	32,603	21,569	Rajasthan	62	44	18	3,986	3,043	943	Rajasthan	57,048	27,425	29,623	51,407,216	26,798,769	24,608,447	Rajasthan	3,243	2,237	1,006	1,554	900	654	Rajasthan	716	385	331	7,447	4,691	2,756	Rajasthan	33,975	18,125	15,850	404	272	132	Rajasthan	19,361	11,544	7,817	10,569	7,225	3,344	Rajasthan	13,347	8,080	5,267	1,141,200	601,253	539,947	Rajasthan	989	587	402	247	186	61	Rajasthan	380,430	196,734	183,696	11,852	7,751	4,101	Rajasthan	8,467	5,331	3,136	662,983	342,981	320,002
Uttar Pradesh	7,922	4,390	3,532	181,634	93,972	87,662	Uttar Pradesh	58	37	21	4,464	3,796	668	Uttar Pradesh	8,169	4,376	3,793	151,770,131	79,998,968	71,771,163	Uttar Pradesh	2,799	1,674	1,125	3,153	1,773	1,380	Uttar Pradesh	323	185	138	7,224	4,335	2,889	Uttar Pradesh	19,683	10,110	9,573	532	397	135	Uttar Pradesh	13,074	7,682	5,392	263,982	145,106	118,876	Uttar Pradesh	15,052	8,671	6,381	523,094	276,412	246,682	Uttar Pradesh	7,048	3,856	3,192	491	248	243	Uttar Pradesh	34,330	17,425	16,905	13,665	8,128	5,537	Uttar Pradesh	7,645	4,549	3,096	13,272,080	6,947,596	6,324,484
Bihar	619	321	298	443,426	228,257	215,169	Bihar	16	9	7	173	128	45	Bihar	3,429	1,807	1,622	60,635,284	31,644,533	28,990,751	Bihar	426	263	163	930	521	409	Bihar	78	46	32	11,830,868	6,152,573	5,678,295	Bihar	2,674	1,126	1,548	77	53	24	Bihar	14,002	7,406	6,596	18,763	9,861	8,902	Bihar	6,010	3,250	2,760	13,600	7,253	6,347	Bihar	754	413	341	386,248	199,191	187,057	Bihar	3,251	1,666	1,585	1,453	816	637	Bihar	1,378	781	597	9,457,548	4,891,011	4,566,537
Sikkim	545	455	90	6,320	4,640	1,680	Sikkim	53	43	10	215	183	32	Sikkim	132	90	42	36,072	24,061	12,011	Sikkim	146	130	16	36	24	12	Sikkim	17	12	5	543	333	210	Sikkim	1,021	784	237	223	163	60	Sikkim	521	434	87	338,606	174,068	164,538	Sikkim	515	388	127	1,364	1,216	148	Sikkim	3	3	0	80	38	42	Sikkim	4	3	1	484	424	60	Sikkim	340	265	75	2,930	2,118	812
Arunachal Pradesh	51,551	28,918	22,633	97,149	52,811	44,338	Arunachal Pradesh	6,515	3,337	3,178	900	828	72	Arunachal Pradesh	432	282	150	81,186	53,080	28,106	Arunachal Pradesh	465	390	75	92	84	8	Arunachal Pradesh	25	15	10	2,836	1,748	1,088	Arunachal Pradesh	5,583	3,731	1,852	2,082	1,300	782	Arunachal Pradesh	1,902	1,688	214	94,919	52,276	42,643	Arunachal Pradesh	7,847	4,768	3,079	2,980	2,224	756	Arunachal Pradesh	1	1	0	2,042	1,486	556	Arunachal Pradesh	69	45	24	1,595	1,280	315	Arunachal Pradesh	1,573	1,050	523	1,258	883	375
Nagaland	16,813	10,328	6,485	58,890	34,437	24,453	Nagaland	4,874	2,516	2,358	626	535	91	Nagaland	558	379	179	56,981	40,248	16,733	Nagaland	332	279	53	71	51	20	Nagaland	74	40	34	723	502	221	Nagaland	3,901	2,752	1,149	6,927	4,096	2,831	Nagaland	1,533	1,351	182	34,222	19,347	14,875	Nagaland	3,952	2,454	1,498	1,362	1,017	345	Nagaland	5	5	0	138	89	49	Nagaland	75	44	31	1,441	1,088	353	Nagaland	1,286	865	421	759	562	197
Manipur *	1,456	1,174	282	27,100	14,610	12,490	Manipur *	90	76	14	696	674	22	Manipur *	301	193	108	24,720	18,546	6,174	Manipur *	243	212	31	79	75	4	Manipur *	14	9	5	433	260	173	Manipur *	1,231	989	242	1,266,098	630,088	636,010	Manipur *	472	413	59	45,998	24,539	21,459	Manipur *	854	726	128	1,438	1,070	368	Manipur *	-	-	-	153	87	66	Manipur *	7	4	3	2,279	1,381	898	Manipur *	699	617	82	483	470	13
Mizoram	979	761	218	80,389	45,075	35,314	Mizoram	145	95	50	275	245	30	Mizoram	45	35	10	10,530	8,694	1,836	Mizoram	142	128	14	5	5	0	Mizoram	43	11	32	92	64	28	Mizoram	1,322	1,030	292	1,825	1,309	516	Mizoram	174	131	43	8,948	5,429	3,519	Mizoram	346	285	61	479	418	61	Mizoram	6	6	0	4,677	4,433	244	Mizoram	2	1	1	431	351	80	Mizoram	228	178	50	98	84	14
Tripura	1,209	935	274	2,147,994	1,097,900	1,050,094	Tripura	92	72	20	595	553	42	Tripura	1,168	696	472	53,691	33,962	19,729	Tripura	567	496	71	139	133	6	Tripura	146	76	70	238	167	71	Tripura	1,747	1,438	309	20,716	10,551	10,165	Tripura	998	827	171	3,377	2,086	1,291	Tripura	23,899	12,509	11,390	1,637	1,488	149	Tripura	-	-	-	2,625	1,397	1,228	Tripura	5	4	1	1,312	1,172	140	Tripura	3,812	2,328	1,484	313	253	60
Meghalaya	36,576	20,057	16,519	185,692	97,378	88,314	Meghalaya	3,470	1,869	1,601	370	294	76	Meghalaya	310	223	87	50,055	31,950	18,105	Meghalaya	301	237	64	84	69	15	Meghalaya	66	40	26	524	356	168	Meghalaya	2,000	1,255	745	3,522	2,211	1,311	Meghalaya	38,638	19,437	19,201	52,155	28,385	23,770	Meghalaya	1,243	779	464	4,753	2,729	2,024	Meghalaya	1	1	0	357	217	140	Meghalaya	194	102	92	834	586	248	Meghalaya	560	336	224	2,531	1,509	1,022
Assam	13,010,478	6,691,321	6,319,157	7,343,338	3,790,950	3,552,388	Assam	1,296,162	655,032	641,130	2,234	2,060	174	Assam	6,911	3,794	3,117	1,569,662	871,072	698,590	Assam	2,059	1,606	453	358	320	38	Assam	156	87	69	4,346	2,942	1,404	Assam	8,141	5,493	2,648	154,059	77,350	76,709	Assam	6,303	4,620	1,683	564,790	293,122	271,668	Assam	231,474	118,558	112,916	30,763	18,185	12,578	Assam	51	29	22	242,886	126,129	116,757	Assam	910	472	438	5,672	4,289	1,383	Assam	27,463	15,020	12,443	4,715	2,821	1,894
West Bengal	7,835	4,904	2,931	68,369,255	35,075,010	33,294,245	West Bengal	37,654	19,076	18,578	2,006	1,600	406	West Bengal	46,926	24,233	22,693	5,747,099	3,216,095	2,531,004	West Bengal	2,755	1,881	874	1,084	824	260	West Bengal	960	471	489	22,064	13,016	9,048	West Bengal	17,043	9,794	7,249	1,075	713	362	West Bengal	15,176	9,259	5,917	1,022,725	514,596	508,129	West Bengal	186,391	112,124	74,267	67,952	37,805	30,147	West Bengal	138	81	57	2,247,113	1,130,405	1,116,708	West Bengal	5,749	2,840	2,909	20,238	11,390	8,848	West Bengal	208,769	115,671	93,098	1,653,739	914,087	739,652
Jharkhand	874	643	231	2,607,601	1,343,970	1,263,631	Jharkhand	70	49	21	702	531	171	Jharkhand	17,926	9,233	8,693	15,510,587	8,048,403	7,462,184	Jharkhand	1,022	592	430	255	165	90	Jharkhand	310	139	171	141,184	77,275	63,909	Jharkhand	8,783	4,476	4,307	191	151	40	Jharkhand	14,513	7,823	6,690	17,326	9,558	7,768	Jharkhand	467,874	237,130	230,744	86,596	46,832	39,764	Jharkhand	210	118	92	2,879,576	1,454,397	1,425,179	Jharkhand	2,074	1,051	1,023	12,913	6,890	6,023	Jharkhand	35,957	18,525	17,432	2,324,411	1,206,458	1,117,953
Orissa	479	294	185	490,857	247,991	242,866	Orissa	65	31	34	62	36	26	Orissa	15,820	8,212	7,608	1,043,243	538,002	505,241	Orissa	946	534	412	114	62	52	Orissa	3,280	1,636	1,644	2,016	1,146	870	Orissa	10,440	5,668	4,772	109	59	50	Orissa	8,863	4,695	4,168	9,927	5,850	4,077	Orissa	30,563,507	15,522,848	15,040,659	21,574	11,530	10,044	Orissa	128	79	49	699,270	352,805	346,465	Orissa	2,568	1,364	1,204	8,709	4,796	3,913	Orissa	712,614	354,606	358,008	611,509	311,692	299,817
Chhattisgarh	176	94	82	208,669	107,672	100,997	Chhattisgarh	6	3	3	132	76	56	Chhattisgarh	38,916	19,901	19,015	17,210,481	8,662,802	8,547,679	Chhattisgarh	1,435	778	657	131	74	57	Chhattisgarh	182	89	93	6,293	3,515	2,778	Chhattisgarh	26,319	13,530	12,789	61	31	30	Chhattisgarh	140,623	70,259	70,364	3,424	1,995	1,429	Chhattisgarh	819,098	408,253	410,845	67,293	35,111	32,182	Chhattisgarh	128	68	60	829	408	421	Chhattisgarh	89,325	45,766	43,559	13,241	7,037	6,204	Chhattisgarh	148,131	75,689	72,442	88,008	46,670	41,338
Madhya Pradesh	1,240	887	353	105,399	55,891	49,508	Madhya Pradesh	48	31	17	3,410	2,627	783	Madhya Pradesh	198,140	100,497	97,643	52,658,687	27,542,145	25,116,542	Madhya Pradesh	6,526	3,646	2,880	1,116	615	501	Madhya Pradesh	988	502	486	2,687	1,567	1,120	Madhya Pradesh	48,515	24,603	23,912	426	278	148	Madhya Pradesh	1,266,038	639,857	626,181	10,923	6,778	4,145	Madhya Pradesh	20,965	12,375	8,590	148,999	78,178	70,821	Madhya Pradesh	381	219	162	309	195	114	Madhya Pradesh	259,226	132,992	126,234	24,848	13,696	11,152	Madhya Pradesh	26,602	14,355	12,247	1,186,364	615,019	571,345
Gujarat	1,576	1,105	471	40,780	25,675	15,105	Gujarat	50	36	14	793	530	263	Gujarat	42,768,386	22,109,396	20,658,990	2,388,814	1,412,658	976,156	Gujarat	15,684	8,614	7,070	992	516	476	Gujarat	190,557	95,325	95,232	3,550	2,369	1,181	Gujarat	67,838	37,063	30,775	243	148	95	Gujarat	764,002	404,426	359,576	17,123	11,336	5,787	Gujarat	122,421	98,078	24,343	55,810	30,213	25,597	Gujarat	140	85	55	49	36	13	Gujarat	958,787	488,638	470,149	37,092	20,751	16,341	Gujarat	68,743	37,097	31,646	550,630	287,723	262,907
Daman & Diu#	265	258	7	1,810	1,560	250	Daman & Diu#	5	5	0	13	7	6	Daman & Diu#	107,090	53,374	53,716	30,754	24,908	5,846	Daman & Diu#	389	248	141	9	6	3	Daman & Diu#	229	135	94	375	310	65	Daman & Diu#	1,166	810	356	15	15	0	Daman & Diu#	6,763	4,576	2,187	1,407	1,223	184	Daman & Diu#	2,072	1,837	235	304	193	111	Daman & Diu#	10	10	0	65	59