§ Mr. SCURRasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of factories and the total number of persons employed in. India for the years 1892 and 1922, respectively?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe figures for 1922 are 5,144 and 1,361,002, respectively. Official figures for 1892 are not available, but in Miss Broughton's book on "Labour and Indian Industries," which was the result of investigations in India, the figures for that year are given at 656 and 316,816, respectively. The two sets of figures are not strictly comparable, as a1538W change in the legal definition of "factory" in 1922 resulted in an increase in the numbers of factories by about 25 per cent., though the number of persons employed was not increased to a corresponding extent.
§ Mr. SCURRasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of cotton factories, the number of looms and spindles, and the number of persons employed in India for the years 1892 and 1922, respectively?
§ Earl WINTERTONFigures for the calendar years are not available. The following are the figures for the financial years 1891–92 and 1921–22:
Cotton Mills in British India. Year. No. of Mills. No. of Looms. No. of Spindles. Averages daily No. of persons employed. 1891–92 127 24,670 3,268,5241 117,922* 1921–22 237 118,902 6,375,5601 313,228 *Figures defective in the details.