State and district level population data from the 1971 Census, including rural/urban breakdown and SC/ST populations.
Format
A tibble with 370 rows and 21 columns:
- year
Census year (1971)
- geography
Geographic level: "state" or "district"
- state
Name of the state
- state_name_harmonized
Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
- name
Name of the state or district
- area_km2
Area in square kilometers
- population_total
Total population
- population_rural
Rural population
- population_urban
Urban population
- males_total
Total male population
- males_rural
Rural male population
- males_urban
Urban male population
- females_total
Total female population
- females_rural
Rural female population
- females_urban
Urban female population
- sc_population_total
Total Scheduled Caste population
- sc_population_rural
Rural Scheduled Caste population
- sc_population_urban
Urban Scheduled Caste population
- st_population_total
Total Scheduled Tribe population
- st_population_rural
Rural Scheduled Tribe population
- st_population_urban
Urban Scheduled Tribe population
Source
Jolad, Shivakumar and Singh, Madhav (2026). "Indian Census Data Collection, 1901-2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets." Harvard Dataverse. doi:10.7910/DVN/ON8CP8 .