India, April 6 -- India's long-delayed census is finally back on track, with house-listing operations beginning this month. The data collected during this phase will be used to plan the population enu... Read More
India, March 23 -- In the late 19th century, the British biologist Francis Galton came up with a new field of population studies called eugenics (literally meaning "good birth"). Drawing on the work o... Read More
India, March 9 -- The first estimates of independent India's national income were prepared by a stellar team led by the national accounting pioneer Moni Mukherjee. Their work was supervised by a commi... Read More
India, Feb. 23 -- India's founding fathers famously disagreed on many policy issues. But most of them agreed on the need to build a strong centralised State. Fearful of fissiparous tendencies in a div... Read More
India, Jan. 26 -- In the early years of India's Independence, the country's most important policy documents were the five-year development plans published by the Planning Commission. As the Commission... Read More