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Population
2022: 1.41 billion people
In 2022 China , he lost the championship in the number of inhabitants, India which at the end of 2022 already had 1.417 billion people.
2021
2019: Population dynamics since 1800
2017
Migration from India and to India
2021: Net outflow over 4 years
2020: World leadership in emigration - 17.9 million people a year
2019:7 thousand millionaires left India
Languages
32 languages with more than 1 million speakers
32 languages on the map of India. At least 1,000,000 people speak each language.
Hindi - 600m
As of 2019, over 600 million people speak Hindi.
Traditional Hindi is the syllabic alphabet of Devanagari.
The number of native English speakers - 125.3 million people or second place in the world
Castes
Banya - traders and financiers
The most influential trade and financial caste in India, belonging to the Vaishya varna.
In India, there is an informal rivalry between the Banya, who dominate North India, and the Chettiars (Chetti), who dominate South India.
In Rajasthan, the banyas belong to the middle castes, second only to the Brahmins and Rajputs in the social hierarchy.
For 2018, the banya is characterized by the surnames Gupta, Agarwal, Lala, Seth, Vaish, Banya, Banik, Mahawar, Sahu and Sahukar.
Marvarian entrepreneurs in 1981 included the richest families in India: Birla, Dalmia, Singhania, Ruia, Poddar, Sahu Jain, Morarka, Bangur, Jaipuria, Bajaj, Goenka and others.
The Banya are mainly Vishnuism and Jainism.
The Banya became famous for funding the construction of numerous temples and wells.
Mahatma Gandhi wrote that "the Gandhi belong to the Bania caste and were apparently originally grocers."