Did you know that in 1901, Delhi was just the seventh most populous city in India? Or that its population did not surpass Chennai’s until some point in the 1950s? Did you know that Bangalore, the fifth most populous city today, was ranked 14th in 1901? Or that Ghaziabad, Delhi’s satellite city which by 2011 was the 14th most populous city in the country, was a village of just 14,600 in 1901?

These and other insights can be found in a dataset released yesterday by the Census of India, which shows the population of thousands of Indian cities since 1901.

India’s 15 most populous cities, 1901-2011