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The 1961 census of India was the tenth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872.

The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people.

Population by state

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. 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. 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 demonyms such as "African", "Canadian" or "Belgian". 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

1. Vijayanunni, M. (26–29 August 1998). "Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census" (PDF). 18th Population Census Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, US: Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
2. ^ Mallikarjun, B. (5 August 2002). "Mother Tongues of India According to the 1961 Census". Languages in India. 2. M. S. Thirumalai. ISSN 1930-2940. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
3. "Census of India 1961 Final Population Totals" (PDF). 1962. pp. 3–6.

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