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{{Infobox census
| name = 1961 census of India
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| country = [[India]]
| date = 
| population = 438,936,918
| percent_change = 21.62
| annual_percent_change = 8.33
| region_type = 
| most_populous = [[Uttar Pradesh]] (70,144,160)
| least_populous = [[Sikkim]] (162,863)
| previous_census = 1951 census of India
| previous_year = 1951
| next_year = 1971
| next_census = 1971 census of India
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The '''1961 census of India''' was the tenth in a series of [[census of India|censuses]] held in [[India]] every decade since [[Census of India prior to independence|1872]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vijayanunni, M.|date=26–29 August 1998|title=Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census|url=http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119080707/http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|archive-date=19 November 2008|access-date=25 March 2021|website=18th Population Census Conference|publisher=Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific|location=Honolulu, Hawaii, US}}</ref>

The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people.<ref name="Census1961">{{cite journal |author=Mallikarjun, B. | date=5 August 2002 |publisher=M. S. Thirumalai |journal=Languages in India |url=http://www.languageinindia.com/aug2002/indianmothertongues1961aug2002.html |title=Mother Tongues of India According to the 1961 Census | volume= 2 | issn=1930-2940 |accessdate=11 December 2014}}</ref>

==Population by state==
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsable"
|+ Population of Indian states and union territories in 1961 <ref>{{cite web|title=Census of India 1961 Final Population Totals|url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/430/1/21535.pdf |year=1962 |pages=3–6}}</ref>
|-
|- align=center
!State/Union Territory
!Population
|-
|[[Andhra Pradesh]]
|35.99 million
|-
|[[Assam]]
|11.87 million
|-
|[[Bihar]]
|46.45 million
|-
|[[Gujarat]]
|20.63 million
|-
|[[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|3.56 million
|-
|[[Kerala]]
|16.9 million
|-
|[[Madhya Pradesh]]
|32.37 million
|-
|[[Madras State|Madras]]
|33.68 million
|-
|[[Maharashtra]]
|41.64 million
|-
|[[Maharashtra]]
|39.55 million
|-
|[[Mysore State|Mysore]]
|23.58 million
|-
|[[Orissa]]
|17.54 million
|-
|[[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
|20.3 million
|-
|[[Rajasthan]]
|21.15 million
|-
|[[Uttar Pradesh]]
|73.74 million
|-
|[[West Bengal]]
|34.92 million
|-
|[[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]
|63,548
|-
|[[Delhi]]
|2.65 million
|-
|[[Himachal Pradesh]]
|1.35 million
|-
|[[Lakshadweep]]
| 24,108
|-
|[[Manipur]]
|780,037
|-
|[[Tripura]]
|1.14 million
|-
|[[Dadra and Nagar Haveli]]
|57,963
|-
|[[Goa, Daman and Diu]]
|626,978
|-
|[[North-East Frontier Agency]]
|336,558
|-
|[[Nagaland]]
|369,200
|-
|[[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]]
|369,079
|-
|[[Sikkim]]
|162,189
|}

==Language data==
The 1961 census recognized 1,652 ''mother tongues'', counting all declarations made by any individual at the time when the census was conducted.<ref name="Census1961"/> However, the declaring individuals often mixed names of languages with those of dialects, sub-dialects and dialect clusters or even castes, professions, religions, localities, regions, countries and nationalities.<ref name="Census1961"/> The list therefore includes "languages" with barely a few individual speakers as well as 530 unclassified "mother tongues" and more than 100 idioms that are non-native to India, including linguistically unspecific [[demonym]]s such as "African", "Canadian" or "Belgian".<ref name="Census1961"/> Modifications were done by bringing in two additional components- place of birth i.e. village or town and duration of stay (if born elsewhere).

==See also==
*[[Demographics of India]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Census of India}}

[[Category:1961 in India|Census Of India, 1991]]
[[Category:Censuses in India]]
[[Category:Political history of India]]
[[Category:1961 censuses|India]]

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