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History of Census in India While heated debates and protests going on in India about new laws on citizenship and population register (2019-20), we bring a list of resources and links on how and when were the first population census were conducted in India, and what they meant for the demographics and social identity of the people. History of Census in India Census of India prior to independence (Wikipedia) LEGAL ASPECTS OF COLONIAL CENSUS POLICY IN INDIA (1872 -1948), Pradeep Kumar Census and caste enumeration: British legacy and contemporary practice in India, RAM B. BHAGAT MEMORANDUM ON THE CENSUS OF BRITISH INDIA OF 1871-72 (London) Census of India Reports from 1871 to 1901 Digitization of Census of India 1872-1941 volumes in IIPS: An announcement, D.D. Mestri, F.Ram Indian Economy on the Eve of Independence, Demographic Condition Statistical abstract relating to British India. From 1840 to 1920 Why does the Census of India focus on mother tongues? How does it make linguistic minorities invisible? CENSUS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNALISM IN INDIA, R.B.Bhagat Census 1931: Why It’s Relevant Now More Than Ever, Shrikanth Krishnamachary The Tribe in the Early Census Reports:Constructing the Nation, Hindu and Outside Hindu The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit, Rakhi Chakraborty Religious Demography of India (CPS) Caste Confusion and Census Enumeration in Colonial India, 1871-1921, KEVIN WALBY and MICHAEL HAAN The Census of India 1881 - 1931 (Samanvaya) Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population, Mytheli Sreenivas Agricultural Census (in India) British Rule and Tribal Revolts in India: The curious case of Bastar, Ajay Verghese Questionaires used in earliest census This list is in progress. Please let us know if you know of some good archive on the Internet which concerns us and we may have missed. Please report if you find any dead links. |