The population count, which was delayed by five years, will include caste enumeration for the first time in a century.

The census is an important national event as it counts everyone in the country at a particular time. The first known census ...

New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the ...

Imagine trying to govern a nation of over a billion people without knowing how many people are there, where they live, what languages they speak, or how many children are going to school. That is ...