General report on the Census of India 1891 & Memorandum on the census of 1871-72
a snapshot of Imperial India
by Jervoise Athelstane Baines
The General Report on the Census of India for 1891 is an account of India at the height of British power in South Asia. It contains data on Indian; geography, politics, population, occupations, ethnography, language, race, caste, tribe, literacy, infirmities and sex and age distribution. The Memorandum on the Census of British India of 1871-72 is a short document, around 40 pages of text, which summarises the findings of the first attempt at a census of India made during the British Raj.
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General report on the Census of India 1891 & Memorandum on the census of 1871-72: a snapshot of Imperial India
2001, La Trobe University
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"The General Report on the 1891 census was written by Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines (1847-1925) and originally published as the General report on the Census of India, 1891. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1893".
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This work was carried out under an Australian Research Council funded project entitled: 'Internationalising South Asian Scholarly Data'.
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