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...

date. Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941. The censuses were...

The 2025 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase. Although...

is also called Crown rule in India, or Direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included...

The 2011 census of India or the 15th Indian census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began...

The 1951 census of India was the ninth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. It was also the first census after independence...

census in British India was conducted in 1872. Since India's independence in 1947, a census has been conducted every 10 years, the first occurring in...

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and...

subcontinent to fall under British control. In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. It had a land...

9 April 2011. Census of the British empire: 1901. Great Britain Census Office. 1906. p. xviii. "Census of India – Index of Old Census Reports". Archived...

of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is...

the British East India Company followed, turning India into a colonial economy but also consolidating its sovereignty. British Crown rule began in 1858...

India and the Crown Settlements, took place in 1881. The Census Act 1920 provides the legal framework for conducting all censuses in Great Britain (Scotland...

Waterfield, Henry; Great Britain India Office Statistics AND Commerce Department (1872). "Memorandum on the census of British India of 1871-72". pp. 50–54...

The British introduced the use of Roman script for Hindustani as well as other languages. Urdu had 70 million speakers in India (per the Census of 2001)...

adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia...

British Indians are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots are from India. Currently, the British Indian population exceeds 1.9 million...

In the United States census, the US Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and...

one princely state (Khairpur), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1901 census data here: 1901 figure taken from census data by combining the total population...

of life in the South Asian subcontinent countries of India and Bangladesh, most notoriously under British rule. Famines in India resulted in millions...

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...

religion to be a fundamental right. According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India follows Hinduism, 14.2% Islam, 2.3% Christianity, 1.7%...

and most practised religion in India. About 80% of the country's population identified as Hindu in the last census. India contains 94% of the global Hindu...

process. In more recent times, the All-India Kashyap Rajput Mahasabha pressure group was established prior to the 1941 census of British India to lobby...

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...

(1981). The Census in British India: New Perspectives. Manohar. ISBN 978-0-8364-0847-8. Barrier, Norman Gerald (1981). The Census in British India: New Perspectives...

first population census in British India was conducted in 1872. Since 1951, a census has been carried out every 10 years. The census in India is carried out...

population of 1,980,602 as per the 2011 Census of India, making it one of the least populated states in India. Nagaland consists of 16 administrative...

elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj...

independence from the British Raj, 4.7 million of West Pakistan's Hindus and Sikhs moved to India as refugees. And in the first census afterward (1951), Hindus...