How To Find My Name In Census List 1951

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A census is a count and description of the population. The percent of people listed varies with the purpose of the census and how careful the enumerator was. India national censuses started in 1871 and continue every x years.

The Indian census had ii immediate precursors: On the one paw, the regional gazetteers, censuses, and regional surveys in India; and on the other hand, the British decennial censuses kickoff with the 1801 census. Both of these historical antecedents of the Indian Census have their foundation in the "statistical movement" that gathered nifty momentum in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although this movement (at least as it led to the accumulation of social statistics) had the administrative purpose of more efficiently matching country resources to social needs, in the colonial context its manifestation in the early Indian censuses cannot be separated from Britain'due south colonization of India.

The gathering of statistical information inevitably requires a process of nomenclature. With the early on Indian censuses, the process of classifying social institutions and structures led to the cosmos of an authoritative representation of Indian gild. That the Indian censuses were a product of the colonial meet becomes even more apparent in the proliferation of ethnographic essays in the early Indian Censuses.

The early Indian censuses present non merely statistical accounts of early modern India, but also documentation of the British encounter with its colonized subjects. These censuses are documentation of the colonizer's attempts to come up to an understanding of its colonial subjects and integrate India (at least from an authoritative perspective) inside the British Empire.

Follow these steps to find film numbers in the FamilySearch Catalog for Bharat censuses.

Get to www.familysearch.org.
Click the Search tab.
Click Itemize.
Click Place Name.
Type the name of a parish or boondocks, and click Search.
Click the locality that you want.
Scroll down the list of topics, and click Census.
Click View Film Notes to see the motion-picture show numbers for each census twelvemonth.

A census may list only selected persons (such as males betwixt the ages of sixteen and 45) or list the whole population. Censuses provide information when other records are missing. The percentage of people listed varies with the purpose of the census and how careful the enumerator was. Various types of censuses taken by different regime for their own purposes, include: