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Q. During the rule of which of the following Governor-general the Census of India was started?
Answer: Lord Curzon
Notes: The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. The first complete census was taken in 1881. The Census of 1881 was undertaken on 17th February 1881 by W.C. Plowden under the viceroyship of Lord Mayo.

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