According to the general census of 1891 [68] the number of Parsis in India rose to 89,904; that is, an increase of 491 over that of the 17th of February, 1881, which gave a total of 85,397. On the 26th of February, 1891, the entire population of the Bombay Presidency, including the Native States and Aden, formed a total of 26,960,421 inhabitants, [69] of whom 76,774 were Parsis (39,285 males and 37,489 females). The surplus is divided between Madras, Bengal, and the districts of the Gaekwar of Baroda, where is to be seen among other flourishing settlements the ancient community of Naosari. To this number must be added the Parsis of China, and of some foreign localities, and the Iranians, 9,269 in number. The exact number of Zoroastrians scattered over the globe we thus find to be a hundred thousand at the most! We refer to the Zoroastrian Calendar for all information concerning statistics, and in a special chapter (pp. 119 et seq.) we find a detailed list of the population of the city and the Presidency of Bombay. [70] We take from it the following table (see next page), which gives the assessment of the population in the different centres. Occupying the first rank we find Bombay with its 47,458 Parsis, and Surat with 12,757; then Broach, Thana, Poona, Karachi, down to the least of the localities, some of which stand for only a simple unit. -----------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+--------- | | | Widowers and | Names of Towns | Not Married. | Married.[2] | Widows. | Total. and Districts. |-------+-------|-------+-------|-------+-------+ | M. | W. | M. | W. | M. | W. | -----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------- Bombay | 14091| 10153| 9804| 9258| 810| 3342| 47458 Ahmedabad | 230| 175| 203| 175| 12| 40| 835 Kheda | 49| 31| 39| 27| ...| 7| 153 Panch-Mahal | 43| 15| 40| 13| 3| 3| 108 Bharooch | 754| 623| 702| 865| 70| 259| 3273 Surat | 2990| 2535| 2597| 3212| 266| 1157| 12757 Thana | 1001| 802| 845| 860| 78| 334| 3920 Colaba | 39| 29| 51| 32| 7| 9| 167 Ratnagiri | 6| 3| 4| 2| ...| ...| 15 Kanara | 1| ...| 8| ...| 1| ...| 10 Khandeish | 119| 73| 199| 99| 10| 8| 508 Nasik | 127| 77| 108| 75| 6| 14| 407 Ahmednagar | 51| 45| 41| 37| 5| 10| 188 Poona | 622| 476| 402| 386| 42| 98| 2026 Sohlapore | 67| 59| 54| 41| 3| 8| 232 Satara | 32| 40| 29| 24| 1| 8| 134