Many of these same ingredients closely reflect garam masala, a spice mix used in north India. You can make your own garam masala by toasting whole spices like cardamom seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, cloves, dried chilies, cinnamon and nutmeg, then grinding them into a powder.
There are 593 districts. Thus, the population of India is divided into various districts within 28 states and seven Union territories. Each district is further divided into various settlements that are either rural or urban. Here we shall analyze the distribution of the population in terms of their rural or urban residence.
Table 4 gives the distribution of the population into rural and urban for the period, 1901-2001. These figures indicate that India continues to be predomiÂ­nantly rural, with 72.2 per cent of its population residing in rural areas. Rural settlements number 5, 80,781 ranging from those that have a population of over 10,000 persons to those with less than even 500 people.