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The 1931 census is often considered be the last British-administered census. [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.
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 ...
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.
Herbert Hope Risley. Sir Herbert Hope Risley KCIE CSI FRAI (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency.
Census report of the United Provinces. 1902. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. 3rd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford, from 1909. (Editor) The Cambridge History of India Vol. IV The Mughul period. University Press, Cambridge, 1937. Planned by Wolseley Haig, edited by Richard Burn. The Cambridge History of India Vol. VI. The Indian Empire, 1858–1918.
Panjab Castes is a book based on a census report of the Panjab Province of British India by Sir Denzil Ibbetson, published in 1916. [1] [2] [3] The census of the Panjab Province was carried out by Sir Denzil Ibbetson of the Indian Civil Service in 1881 and his report was published in 1883.
After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the company rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the British Crown. The Government of India Act 1858 created the office of Secretary of State for India in 1858 to oversee the affairs of India, which was advised by a new Council of India ...
The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...