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Deepika Deepika

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Social Science
2 years ago

Explain how the conversion of Census data into convenient statistical data by the Britisher in India riddled. with ambiguities in the late nineteenth century.

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Abhishek Mishra

2 years ago

The conversion of census data into convenient statistical data by the British in India riddled with ambiguities because of the overlapping identities, the people gave wrong information during surveys. They were suspicious of the census which would impose new taxes. They even feared of being low status. Moreover, the figures of mortality and disease were difficult to collect as all the deaths were not registered and illness were neither reported nor treated by licensed doctors.

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