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| 1891 Census of India | |
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| General information | |
| Country | British India |
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| Total population | 287,000,000 |
The 1891 Census of India was conducted by the British Raj and covered the lands now part of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma.[1] The Census Commissioner was Jervoise Athelstane Baines, who was later knighted for his work in India. Baines changed the classification from that which had been used in the 1881 census. His obituary in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society describes the changes as being "first the separation of caste from religion and, secondly, the substitution of the population subsisting by an occupation for that exercising it." He wrote the resultant 300-page General Report, which had "a literary flavour and wide scholarship" rather than a mere analysis of the data.[2] The total population reported was about 287,000,000.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baines, Jervoise Athelstane (10 July 1893). General Report on the Census of India, 1891. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ R.H.R.; S. de J. (January 1926). "Obituary: Sir Athelstane Baines, C.S.I.". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. 89 (1). London: Royal Statistical Society: 182–184. JSTOR 2341501.(subscription required)
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