For the lay reader, the Census is a drab subject, replete with massive
statistics. However, India has proud history of conducting an uninterrupted
decennial census ever since 1881. With the increasing entry of professional
demographers in the census arena and the unfortunate development of equating
demography with family planning census analysis tends to get overshadowed by
demographers. The present volume, which is mainly based on the results of 2001
Census, covers wide spectrum of themes relating to the census. This also was a
very provocative to us for bringing out book so hastily lies in our inability to
cope with requests for exclusive interviews and popular articles