Q. The first complete census in India was held in the year ______:
Answer: 1881
Notes: Census is the basis for reviewing the country’s progress in the past decade, monitoring the ongoing schemes of the government and plan for the future. The first synchronous census was taken under British rule on February 17, 1881, by W.C. Plowden, Census Commissioner of India. Since then, censuses have been undertaken uninterruptedly once every ten?years.