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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 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.
The 2021 census is the first census to ever be postponed in India since its beginning under the British in 1872. Even during the Second World War , the census of India was held in 1941 as scheduled, even if the tabulations of the results of the 1941 census were incomplete compared to the detailed reports published after the 1931 census.
India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to plug important data gaps in his third term ...
The first British census of the Punjab was carried out in 1855. This covered only British territory to the exclusion of local princely states, and placed the population at 17.6 million. The first regular census of British India carried out in 1881 recorded a population of 20.8 million people.
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 ...