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Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941. The censuses were primarily concerned with administration and faced numerous problems in their design and conduct ranging from the absence of house numbering in hamlets to cultural objections on various grounds to ...
Cover of Volume 17 of the 1911 census report (fully digitized file) Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941. The censuses were primarily concerned with administration and faced numerous problems in their design and conduct ranging from the absence of house ...
The British East India Company, too, carried out quantitative exercises in various places and at various times. [3] By 1871–72, when the Raj authorities conducted the first all-India census, the only administrative area of British India that had not already attempted to conduct a region-wide enumeration was Bengal Province. [4] [a]
The 1931 Census of India estimated that there were at least 2,000 Indian students in English and Scottish Universities at the time, from an estimated, and overwhelmingly male population of 9,243 South Asians on the British mainland, of which 7,128 resided in England and Wales, two thousand in Scotland, with a thousand in Northern Ireland, and 1 ...
The first organized census of India was conducted in 1871. It returned a population of 31,220,973 for Madras Presidency. Since then, a census has been conducted once every ten years. The last census of British India held in 1941 returned a population of 49,341,810 for Madras Presidency.
The 1921 census of British India shows 69 million Muslims and 217 million Hindus out of a total population of 316 million. The population of the territory that became the British Raj was 100 million by 1600 and remained nearly stationary until the 19th century.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will conduct its much-delayed national census soon, Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday, after a delay of about three years. Reuters last month reported that ...
Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology.After independence, in pursuance of the government's policy to discourage distinctions between communities based on race, the 1951 Census of India did away with racial classifications.