The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under Viceroy Lord...

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 2024 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...

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 India SRS Bulletins". Registrar General of India, Govt of India. 2011. "Census India SRS Bulletins". Registrar General of India, Govt of India...

The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 1,028,737...

The 1971 census of India was the 11th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. The population of India was counted as 547,949,809...

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...

The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 838,583,988...

The 1961 census of India was the tenth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. The population of India was counted as 438,936,918...

heritage and independent nature.[citation needed] According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. However, figures...

The 1981 census of India was the 12th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. The population of India was counted as 685,184,692...

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

cities. This list is based on the Census of India using data from the 2001 census of India and the 2011 census of India. The list includes the cities and...

The census in India is conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and is one of the...

and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United...

parts of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of the "Hindi Belt". According to 2001 Census, 53.6%...

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj...

northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh...

declared the right to freedom of religion to be a fundamental right. According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India follows Hinduism, 14.2%...

is India's sixth-largest religion and is practiced throughout India. Per the 2011 census, there are 4,451,753 Jains in the 1.35 billion population of India...

India (2001). Census of India. Retrieved 2007-09-07. "Area and Population". Government of India (2011). Census of India. Retrieved 2011-04-07. "India...

India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and...

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous...

area of 16,579 square kilometres (6,401 sq mi) with a population of 1,980,602 as per the 2011 Census of India, making it one of the smallest states of India...

(1911). Census of India, 1911. Vol. 1., Pt. 2, Tables. Calcutta: Supt. Govt. Print., India, 1913. p. 23. JSTOR saoa.crl.25393779. Census of India 1921....

census. India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of...

extent and scale of child marriages. A 2015–2016 UNICEF report estimated that India's child marriage rate is 27%. The Census of India has counted and reported...

to the 2011 Census of India. The state topped in the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals according to the annual report of NITI Aayog...

5 percent of the world's population. India consists of twenty-eight states and eight union territories. The first official population census of India was conducted...