Question

The ‘Year of great divide’ with regard to population growth in India is?
A \[1911\]
B \[1921\]
C \[1947\]
D \[1971\]

Answer 1

Hint:
For approaching such kind of question we need to keep in mind some facts like before year \[1921\] the population growth was scarce before that year and after the year \[1921\] India’s population growth was consistent so it becomes more of a general knowledge question rather than being a mathematical question as we have to remember such fact only.

Complete step by step solution:
In the above question we are asked which is the “Year of great divide” with regard to the population growth India so for such kind of question we have to just remember the fact and nothing else
Year \[1921\] was known as the ‘Year of great divide’ with regard to population growth in India
As the population growth was really low before that time it was either in a deficit or growing at a very minimal rate . The main factors that were involved in this were the epidemics of plague and cholera and famines and \[1918\]flu pandemic of India contributed its part in low population growth in between the years \[1900 - 20's\]. Specially \[1918\] flu pandemic or influenza Epidemic reduced the growth by almost \[30\% \] killing mainly the people of age between \[20 - 40\]
And after the year \[1921\] the population has grown very consistently as between \[1921 - 1951\] the average annual growth of the population was \[1.2\% \] as compared to the \[0.2\% \] during the period \[1900 - 21\]

The correct answer of the question is B \[1921\]

Note:
These kinds of questions are basically dependent upon how much you read general knowledge facts and how much you remember them . As in this we were asked The ‘Year of great divide’ with regard to population growth in India which we have seen is \[1921\] some facts and stats related to this are between the year \[1901 - 11\] the total rise in population was \[5.9\% \] and between the year \[1911 - 1921\], there was a decrease of \[0.39\% \]
And in between the years \[1921 - 1931\] the increase was \[11.1\% \] and in the years \[1931 - 1941\]it was \[14\% \] so after the year \[1921\] there was a regular increase in the population growth.