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LanguageNo. of titles published in 2004% of total titles published in 2004No. of speakers of the language* as per 1991 census% of population speaking the language as per 1991 censusNo. of speakers of the language calculated using the % figures from 1991 census and the population figure from the 2001 censusTitles published per capita per 100,000 people in each language2001 Census population by State

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ABCDE = D * 1,027,015,247F = A*100,000/E

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Hindi21,37025.9%337,272,11441.8%428,989,0424.98

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English18,75222.7%64,602,2998.0%82,170,08522.82

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Tamil7,5259.1%53,006,3686.6%67,420,78611.1663380024TN + Pondy

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Bengali5,5386.7%69,595,7388.6%88,521,4276.2680176197

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Marathi5,4756.6%62,481,6817.7%79,472,7926.8996878627

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Telugu3,4824.2%66,017,6158.2%83,970,2794.1576210007

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Malayalam3,3584.1%30,377,1763.8%38,637,8698.6931841374

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Gujarati3,2133.9%40,673,8145.0%51,734,5486.2150671017

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Urdu2,1722.6%43,406,9325.4%55,210,9043.93

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Kannada1,9982.4%32,753,6764.1%41,660,6284.8052850562

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Punjabi1,2981.6%23,378,7442.9%29,736,3014.3724358999

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Assamese1,2851.6%13,079,6961.6%16,636,5567.7226655528

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Oriya7630.9%28,061,3133.5%35,692,2362.1436804660

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Sanskrit7490.9%49,7360.0%63,2611,183.98

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Sindhi1760.2%2,122,8480.3%2,700,1306.52

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Kashmiri1400.2%56,6930.0%72,110194.15

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Other Languages5,2436.4%5,107,4680.6%6,496,380

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Total82,537100.0%807,441,612100.0%1,027,015,2478.04

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ASource: 60 years of Book Publishing in India p12, published by the Federation of Indian Publishers, 2006 (ISBN: 81-86519-06-8)

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CSource: 1991 Indian Census - http://www.censusindia.net/cendat/language/table4_E.PDF

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*The figure for English speakers is the number of people claiming to know English as their second language

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EIndia 2001 pop 1,027, 015, 247 - source: 2001 Indian census - http://www.censusindia.net/results/resultsmain.html

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2001 Census language data had not yet been released as of September 2007