Introduction to the electronic edition of the Census of India

The Tranquebar Initiative at the National Museum of Denmark, and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen are organizing an introduction course to The Census of India.

The Census is accessible in electronic form on CD or via the internet, but only few non-Indian scholars utilize those facilities due to the complicity of the Census tables which work in Excel format. The course will be held in Copenhagen on Wednesday 19 November 2008, 10.00-15.00. It will include a short introduction to the form and tables of the Census of India, and demonstrate how to use the electronic version of the Census. The materials will be demonstrated on data from Tamil Nadu (and Tarangambadi gram), but please note which geographical areas in India and what kind of information you are interested in in your application to the course, which will be limited to 12 participants. Invited lecturer is visiting professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies Amit Prakash. His home university is Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.