Why was the conducting census so important to the British
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The colonial government in India also introduced census operations. ... The census was conducted to records information about castes, religions and occupation of people. Therefore, all these information collected from survey or census were kept in mind by the British official while preparing the rate of revenues.
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it was important because
- British rule believed that the knowledge of a country is necessary to administer that country
- it was also performed to map the whole country in 19th century
- revenue surveys were done in villages to study the soil quality,landscape vegetation.,etc
- census assessments were also held every 10 years from the end of 19th century
it is also revealed that details of the number of people in all states of India and also their religion ,caste and profession
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