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#REDIRECT [[1961 census of India]]
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| name = 1961 Census of India
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| country = [[India]]
| date =          <!--{{start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}-->
| population = 438,936,918
| percent_change =21.62
| annual_percent_change =8.33
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| most_populous = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| least_populous = [[Sikkim]]
| previous_census = 1951 Census of India
| previous_year = 1951
| next_census = [[1971 Census of India|1971]]
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The '''1961 Census of India''' was the 10th in a series of [[census of India|censuses]] held in [[India]] every decade since [[Census of India prior to independence|1872]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vijayanunni, M.|date=26–29 August 1998|title=Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census|url=http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119080707/http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|archive-date=19 November 2008|access-date=25 March 2021|website=18th Population Census Conference|publisher=Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific|location=Honolulu, Hawaii, USA|format=[[PDF]]}}</ref>
The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people.<ref name="Census1961">{{cite web |author=Mallikarjun, B. | date=5 August 2002 |publisher=M. S. Thirumalai |journal=Languages in India |url=http://www.languageinindia.com/aug2002/indianmothertongues1961aug2002.html |title=Mother Tongues of India According to the 1961 Census | volume= 2 | issn=1930-2940 |accessdate=11 December 2014}}</ref>
==Language data==
The 1961 census recognized 1,652 ''mother tongues'', counting all declarations made by any individual at the time when the census was conducted.<ref name="Census1961"/> However, the declaring individuals often mixed names of languages with those of dialects, sub-dialects and dialect clusters or even castes, professions, religions, localities, regions, countries and nationalities.<ref name="Census1961"/> The list therefore includes "languages" with barely a few individual speakers as well as 530 unclassified "mother tongues" and more than 100 idioms that are non-native to India, including linguistically unspecific [[demonym]]s such as "African", "Canadian" or "Belgian".<ref name="Census1961"/> Modifications were done by bringing in two additional components- place of birth i.e. village or town and duration of stay ( if born elsewhere).
==See also==
*[[Demographics of India]]
== References ==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://censusindia.gov.in/}}
{{Census of India}}
[[Category:1961 in India|Census Of India, 1991]]
[[Category:Censuses in India]]
[[Category:Political history of India]]
[[Category:1961 censuses|India]]
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