British Imperial period:

Province	Area(km.²)	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1941
Ajmer-Merwara	7,021	542,358	477,000	501,395	495,271	560,567	583,693
Andamans and Nicobars	8,140	16,000	25,000	26,459	27,086	29,463	33,768
Assam	126,920	5,476,833	5,842,000	6,714,000	7,606,230	8,784,943	10,204,733
Baluchistan	140,450		382,000	414,412	420,648	463,492	501,631
Bengal	392,495	71,346,987	42,141,000	52,668,269	46,695,536	49,997,376	21,837,295
Bihar	180,639				34,002,189	37,590,356	36,340,151
Orissa	83,392						8,728,544
Bombay	324,122	18,901,123	18,530,000	19,672,642	19,348,219	21,102,126	25,384,848
Burma	444,002	7,605,560	N/A	12,115,217	13,212,192	14,652,272
Central Provinces	224,037	10,784,294	11,971,000	13,916,308	13,912,760	15,472,628	16,813,584
Coorg	4,100	173,055	181,000	174,976	163,838	163,089	168,726
Delhi	1,536				488,188	636,827	917,939
Madras	365,678	35,630,440	38,230,000	41,405,404	42,318,985	46,731,850	49,341,810
N.W. Frontier Prov.	34,755		2,042,000	2196,933	2,251,340	2,423,380	3,038,067
Punjab	286,626	20,866,847	19,942,000	19,974,956	20,685,024	23,580,520	28,418,819
United Provinces	278,431	46,905,085	47,313,000	47,182,044	45,375,787	48,423,264	55,020,617
Major native states
Baroda	21,305	2,415,000	1,953,000	2,033,000	2,126,522	2,442,924	2,855,010
Bhopal	18,000	952,486	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	785,322
Cochin	3,528	722,906	812,000	918,000	979,000	1,205,000	1,422,875
Travancore	17,431	2,557,736	2,952,000	3,429,000	4,006,000	5,096,000	6,070,018
Gwalior	66,964	3,378,774	3,066,000	3,228,000	3,195,475	3,520,708	4,006,159
Hyderabad	214,187	11,537,040	11,141,000	13,375,000	12,471,770	14,395,493	16,338,534
Kashmir	209,530	2,543,952	2,906,000	3,158,000	3,699,065	3,645,339	4,021,616
Manipur	22,326	N/A	284,000	346,000	384,000	626,000	512,069
Mysore	72,354	4,943,604	5,539,000	5,806,000	5,859,952	6,554,573	7,329,140
Rajputana	337,393	12,016,102	9,853,000	10,530,000	13,308,781	11,223,708	13,670,208
Totals		287,223,431	294,360,356	315,132,527	318,885,980	351,399,888	388,997,955

Notes: Areas listed are as of about 1900, except for states that were created later. Columns do not add up to the totals shown, because many native states are omitted. All Indian censuses were as of March 1.

Republic period:

Division	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	30,963	63,548	115,133	188,741	280,661	356,152
Andhra Pradesh	31,260,000	35,983,447	43,502,708	53,549,763	66,508,008	76,210,007
Arunachal Pradesh		336,558	467,511	631,839	864,558	1,097,968
Assam	9,603,707	11,872,772	14,625,152	19,896,843	22,414,322	26,655,528
Bihar	38,779,562	46,455,610	56,353,369	69,914,734	86,374,465	82,998,509
Chandigarh			257,251	451,610	642,015	900,635
Chhattishgarh						20,833,803
Dadra and Nagar Haveli		57,963	74,170	103,676	138,477	220,490
Daman and Diu					101,586	158,204
Delhi	1,744,072	2,658,612	4,065,698	6,220,406	9,420,644	13,850,507
Goa		626,667	857,771	1,086,730	1,169,793	1,347,668
Gujarat		20,633,350	26,697,475	34,085,799	41,309,582	50,671,017
Haryana			10,036,808	12,922,618	16,463,648	21,144,564
Himachal Pradesh	1,134,885	1,351,144	3,460,434	4,280,818	5,170,877	6,077,900
Jammu and Kashmir	4,370,000	3,560,976	4,616,632	5,987,389	7,718,700	10,143,700
Jharkhand						26,945,829
Karnataka	19,401,193	23,586,772	29,299,014	37,135,714	44,977,201	52,850,562
Kerala	15,000,000	16,903,715	21,347,375	25,453,680	29,098,518	31,841,374
Lakshadweep	21,195	24,108	31,810	40,249	51,707	60,650
Madhya Pradesh	26,071,657	32,372,408	41,654,119	52,178,844	66,181,170	60,348,023
Maharashtra	48,300,000	39,553,718	50,412,235	62,784,171	78,937,187	96,878,627
Manipur	577,635	780,037	1,072,753	1,420,953	1,837,149	2,166,788
Meghalaya			1,011,699	1,335,819	1,774,778	2,318,822
Mizoram			332,390	439,757	689,756	888,573
Nagaland		369,200	516,449	774,930	1,209,546	1,990,036
Orissa	14,645,946	17,548,846	21,944,615	26,370,271	31,659,736	36,804,660
Puducherry	317,163	369,079	471,707	604,471	807,785	974,345
Punjab	16,134,890	20,306,812	13,551,060	16,788,915	20,281,969	24,358,999
Rajasthan	15,970,000	20,155,602	25,765,806	34,261,862	44,005,990	56,507,188
Sikkim	137,158	162,189	209,845	316,385	406,457	540,851
Tamil Nadu	29,970,000	33,686,953	41,199,168	48,408,007	55,858,946	62,405,679
Tripura	639,029	1,142,005	1,556,342	2,053,058	2,757,205	3,199,203
Uttarakhand						8,489,349
Uttar Pradesh	63,215,742	73,746,401	88,341,144	110,862,013	139,112,287	166,197,921
West Bengal	26,300,000	34,926,279	44,312,011	54,580,647	68,077,965	80,176,197
Totals	363,612,773	439,234,771	548,159,654	685,130,712	846,302,688	1,028,610,328