The 1951 Census of India was the ninth in a series of censuses held in

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every decade since

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. It is also the first census after independence and Partition of India. 1951 census was also the first census to be conducted under 1948 Census of India Act. The first census of the Indian Republic began on February 10, 1951. The population of India was counted as 361,088,090 (1000:946 male:female) Total population increased by 42,427,510, 13.31% more than the 318,660,580 people counted during the 1941 census. No census was done for Jammu and Kashmir in 1951 and its figures were interpolated from 1941 and 1961 state census.

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(NRC) was prepared soon after the census. In 1951, at the time of the first population Census, just 18% of Indians were literate while life expectancy was 32 years. Based on 1951 census of displaced persons, 7,226,000 Muslims went to Pakistan (both

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and

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Pakistan ) from India, while 7,249,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan (both

and

Pakistan).

Language demographics

Separate figures for Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi were not issued, due to the fact the returns were intentionally recorded incorrect in states such as

East Punjab East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province betwee ...

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, PEPSU, and Bilaspur.

Religious demographics

Hindus comprised 305 million (84.1%), Sikhs were 6.86 million (1.9%) and Muslims were 35.4 million (9.8%) in the 1951 census. More citations: * * * 1951 Indian census showed that there were 8.3 million Christians. Hindus comprised about 73 per cent of the population of India before partition and just after independence, Independent India in (1947) have roughly around 85 per cent Hindus.

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Census Reports – 1951
South Asia Open Archives, JSTOR.
Census of India, 1951, Volume 1, Part 1-A – Report
Registrar General, India and ex-officio Census Commissioner for India, via archive.org. {{Census of India Political history of India Censuses in India 1951 in India

Language demographics

Religious demographics

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