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[52] [53] For the first time, a "No religion" category was added in the 2011 census. [54] 2.87 million were classified as people belonging to "No Religion" in India in the 2011 census [55] [56] 0.24% of India's population of 1.21 billion. [57] [58] Given below is the decade-by-decade religious composition of India until the 2011 census.
The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in 2021 before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. [3] The next census is yet to have a confirmed date. [4]
The Census 2011 recorded 11.65 lakh rural houseless people, while in SECC their numbers were only 6.1 lakh. The provisional rural data of SECC 2011 shows Scheduled Castes at 18.46% (or 15.88 crore), Scheduled Tribes at 10.97% (9.27 crore), Others at 68.52%, and 2.04% (or 36.57 lakh) as “No Caste & Tribe” households.
Figures at a glance - Provisional Population Totals, Census of India, 2011 (PDF) (Report). 2011 Retrieved 1 December 2020 . "People in Andhra Pradesh surprised at lowest literacy rate of 64%" .
Bates, Crispin (1995), Race, Caste and Tribe in Central India: The Early Origins of Indian Anthropometry (PDF), Edinburgh Papers In South Asian Studies, ISBN 1-900-79502-7, archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2016
The Indian Census is the largest single source of a variety of statistical information on different characteristics of the people of India.. The first census of India was conducted in the 1872 and attempted to collect data across as much of the country as was feasible.
The detailed data of the census report titled Bihar me jati adharit janganana (caste based census in Bihar) reveals that the Other Backward Class (OBC) population in the State is 27.1286% while, the Extremely Backward Class (EBC) comprises 36.0148%. The Scheduled Caste population in Bihar is at 19.6518% while the Scheduled Tribe population is 1 ...
Jāti is the term traditionally used to describe a cohesive group of people in the Indian subcontinent, like a tribe, community, clan, sub-clan, or a religious sect.Each Jāti typically has an association with an occupation, geography or tribe.