The report on the Census of India, 1921 – the fifth general census – was prepared by J.T. Marten, the then census commissioner of India. Marten had also prepared the census reports for the Central Provinces and Berar in 1911.The 1921 Census covered the population of the entire ‘Indian Empire’, including the British provinces and the ‘Indian States’. It collected information on birthplace, religion, age, sex, marriage, literacy, language, infirmity, occupation, urban and rural areas, and caste, tribe, race and nationality. This census also assessed the impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic and the First World War (1914-18) on India. The epidemic increased mortality rates in India, and 58,238 of the 1.25 lakh troops in the Indian Army units and labour corps died in the war.
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