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| | #REDIRECT [[1961 census of India]] |
| {{Infobox census
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| | name = 1961 Census of India
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| | country = [[India]]
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| | date = <!--{{start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}-->
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| | population = 438,936,918
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| | percent_change =21.62
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| | annual_percent_change =8.33
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| | region_type = <!--state, department, region, ...-->
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| | most_populous = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
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| | least_populous = [[Sikkim]]
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| | previous_census = 1951 Census of India
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| | previous_year = 1951
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| | 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>
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| 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>
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| ==Population by state==
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| {| class="wikitable sortable collapsable"
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| |+ Population of Indian states and union territories in 1961 <ref>{{cite web|title=Census of India 1961 Final Population Totals|url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/430/1/21535.pdf |year=1962 |pages=3-6}}</ref>
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| !State/Union Territory
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| !Population
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| |[[Andhra Pradesh]]
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| |35.98 million
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| |[[Assam]]
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| |11.87 million
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| |[[Bihar]]
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| |46.45 million
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| |[[Gujarat]]
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| |20.63 million
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| |[[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
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| |3.56 million
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| |[[Kerala]]
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| |16.9 million
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| |[[Madhya Pradesh]]
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| |32.37 million
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| |[[Madras]]
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| |33.68 million
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| |[[Maharashtra]]
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| |41.64 million
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| |[[Maharashtra]]
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| |39.55 million
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| |[[Mysore state|Mysore]]
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| |23.58 million
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| |[[Orissa]]
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| |17.54 million
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| |[[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
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| |20.3 million
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| |[[Rajasthan]]
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| |21.15 million
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| |[[Uttar Pradesh]]
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| |73.74 million
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| |[[West Bengal]]
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| |34.92 million
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| |[[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]
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| |63,548
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| |[[Delhi]]
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| |2.65 million
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| |[[Himachal Pradesh]]
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| |1.35 million
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| |[[Lakshadweep]]
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| | 24,108
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| |[[Manipur]]
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| |780,037
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| |[[Tripura]]
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| |1.14 million
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| |[[Dadra and Nagar Haveli]]
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| |57,963
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| |[[Goa]], [[Daman & Diu]]
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| |626,978
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| |[[North East Frontier Agency]]
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| |336,558
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| |[[Nagaland]]
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| |369,200
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| |[[Pondicherry]]
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| |369,079
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| |[[Sikkim]]
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| |162,189
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| ==Language data==
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| 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).
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Demographics of India]]
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| == References ==
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| ==External links==
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| *{{official website|http://censusindia.gov.in/}}
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