Comments on the results of the Indian Census of 1991 for the state of Maharashtra as published in Paper I from the Directorate of Census Operations, Maharashtra, on the state's growth, density, sex ratio and literacy by district, are presented. Maharashtra grew at 25.4% in the last decade from 62.8 to 78.7 million, almost doubling in the last 3 decades. The previous doubling required 6 decades. 3 of the 30 districts, Greater Bombay, Pune and Thane accounted for 26.1% of the population. Density ranged from 55 persons/square km in Gadchiroli to 16,432 in Bombay. Population size had been projected at 75.3 million. The greatest discrepancies were for Greater Bombay and its neighbor Thane. The author believes that Bombay's population was undercounted because its growth rate slowed too much in a decade, despite high land prices and the government policy of industrializing neighboring areas. The sex ratio for Maharashtra was 930 in 1971, 937 in 1981, and 936 in 1991, compared to a prediction of 939. Much of the variation in sex ratio among the districts of the state can be accounted for by male migration. Maharashtra's literacy rates for persons over 6 years of age were 74.8% of males and 50.5% of females, compared to national averages of 63.9% and 39.4%, respectively. The districts with higher overall literacy recorded proportionally higher female literacy. Maharashtra's demographic performance, as the 3rd most populous state in India, compares unfavorably in every category with the top 2 states in development, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.