The current paper is an effort towards highlighting the i) changes in terms of its content and coverage, ii) steps towards modernisation. It will attempt to stress the changes made in the Indian census since its inception with special emphasis on the 2001 census. However, changes in definitions related to different concepts used in the Indian census are not in the scope of this paper.
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