India has been conducting regular decadal censuses since 1881, much before it got independence. However, the census exercises before 1951 were carried under the directions of the British government. How did India prepare for its first post-Independence Census? Pre-Independence deliberations helped here.

The British government had constituted a Health Survey & Development Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Joseph Bhore in 1943 which was tasked with post-War development in the field of health. The Bhore Committee submitted its report in
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