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[11] [b] The report of the 1881 census comprised three volumes; [2] that of 1931 comprised 28. [12] British India ceased to exist in 1947, when Partition occurred. Throughout the British Raj, and onwards until 1961 in the Republic of India, responsibility for census operations lay with temporary administrative structures, which were established ...
Report by J.C. Malony...The section dealing with industries and industrial occupations in the presidency by Alfred Chatterton. II. Imperial and provincial tables by J.C. Molony.
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 ...
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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.
He is notable for the formal identification of the centuries old established caste system of the entire Hindu population of British India in the 1901 census, of which he was in charge. As an exponent of scientific racism , he used anthropometric data to divide Indians into seven races.
The 1951 census of India was the ninth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. [1] It was also the first census after independence and Partition of India. [2] 1951 census was also the first census to be conducted under 1948 Census of India Act. The first census of the Indian Republic began on February 10, 1951. [3]
The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.