The Home Ministry announced plans to conduct a two-stage count ending March 1, 2027 in a statement Wednesday night. India’s last official census in 2011 counted 1.21 billion people.

The Indian census is said to be the largest peacetime mobilization in the world. Almost 2.7 million people were hired to implement the 2011 census, visiting more than 240 million households.

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

So, it came as a surprise when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration announced that caste would be counted in the upcoming national census for the first time since 1931 – when India ...

India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information minister said, seeking to gain the initiative in a sensitive issue ahead of ...

Now as the nation awaits its next census, its first in 14 years, a long-running debate over the morality and wisdom of counting and categorizing people based on an archaic system has again divided ...

India on Wednesday said it approved a plan to include caste data in the upcoming population census, indicating it is a step closer to an exercise that has been delayed for almost four years.

India will include caste details in its next census By The Associated Press (NPR) NEW DELHI May 2, 2025 7:10 a.m.

India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The Home Ministry announced plans to conduct a two-stage census ending March 1, 2027, in a statement ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.