Assertion: Various details about the population of British India were first collected through a census in 1871.
Reasoning: Though suffering from certain limitations, the first census revealed the unevenness in India’s population growth.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option 4: Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.
Assertion: Various details about the population of British India were first collected through a census in 1871. This is incorrect.Various details about the population of British India were first collected through a census in 1881.
Reasoning: Though suffering from certain limitations, the first census revealed the unevenness in India’s population growth. This is correct.
"Various details about the population of British India were first collected through a census in 1881. Though suffering from certain limitations, it revealed the unevenness in India’s population growth."