India Population Census District Handbook Archive

1951–2011

We are building a complete record of what India's census published about every district. The goal is to collect and digitise every District Census Handbook?The census's book on one district: its tables, maps, and town and village directories. See inside ↓, parse their text and tables into structured data, and produce harmonised data series covering all the historical data that exists for every district in India.

  1. In progress Collect and digitise Crowd-source scans of the District Census Handbooks from every census, 1951–2011.
  2. Planned Parse into structured data Digitise the tables and text: district-level records, plus town and village microdata.
  3. Planned Harmonise across censuses Create consistent data series for every district, linked across censuses through boundary changes.

What's in a District Census Handbook?

  1. Missing 1951
  2. Cover of the 1961 Nagpur handbook 1961
  3. Cover of the 1971 Nagpur handbook 1971
  4. Cover of the 1981 Nagpur handbook 1981
  5. Missing 1991
  6. Cover of the 2001 Nagpur handbook 2001
  7. Cover of the 2011 Nagpur handbook 2011

After each census, the Census of India published a District Census Handbook for every district: the most local statistics in print down to each village and town enumerated. These are from Nagpur, Maharashtra. Our archive is currently missing the books from 1951 and 1991, but we believe these are out there somewhere!

Select a cover to open the book.