India on Wednesday kicked off a mammoth exercise to count its entire population – all 1.4 billion of them, give or take a few, in a census initially delayed by the pandemic then administrative issues.

The population count, which was delayed by five years, will include caste enumeration for the first time in a century.

India’s 2027 census will shape how wealth and power is distributed and inform policies around castes and women in the world’s most populous nation.

India began the first count of its population in more than a decade at the start of April. The inaugural digital census is ...

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Publicly identifying their faith can lead to consequences for lower-caste Christians and those in religiously hostile states.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed that centuries of foreign invasions and colonial rule in India not only exploited resources and people but also led to the decline in the Hindu ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world's most populous nation has kicked off a census that will take a year to complete [File: RS Iyer/AP] India has begun ...