How stamps and postcards helped India count its people

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How stamps and postcards helped India count its people

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Census: How stamps and postcards helped India count its people

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India's post office turned stamps, postcards and letters into tools for counting a nation after independence in 1947.

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