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The only known exceptions are as follows:
*'''1851''' [[Bombay Presidency]] Mofussil Districts - European Residents only. The data from this census is accessible through [https://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=119&s_id=131 FIBIS Search]. This information was originally from Valmay S. Young's British India Family History website ([http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id32.html Census Information]) and further details are available there.
*'''1840''' [[Serampore]] (just north of Calcutta) - this was then [[Danish]] Territory and a complete census was taken of the population, including natives. European & Indo-European names are available through the FIBIS database [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1923&s_id=1032 1840 Serampore Census] transcribed by Sylvia Murphy. Details of names are available without restriction. Full details such as address, occupation, religion etc. are only available to logged-in FIBIS members. Most of the names listed were connected with the Baptist Mission; but there were also about 180 persons described as Indo-[[Portuguese]]; on a religion basis there were 171 Protestants, 209 Roman Catholics and 1 [[Armenian]]. The records, in Danish, have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] (Mormons), with this [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/327406?availability=Family%20History%20Library Library Catalogue entry].
*'''1834''' [[Tranquebar]] - Madras Presidency - again this was Danish Territory at the time and the Danish 'as enumerated' data has been preserved and has been filmed by the [[LDS]], with this [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=327409 Library Catalogue entry]
: See below for 1911 census for overseas military personnel, including India.
*[http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie Census of Ireland 1901/1911] The National Archives of Ireland. Free online records. The 1901 census was taken on 31st March 1901and the 1911 census was taken on 2 April 1911.
*A list of individuals that are recorded on the 1881 UK [England, Scotland, Wales] census as born in India/East Indies can be found on [https://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=127&s_id=132 FIBIS Search]. There are over 22,000 names, transcribed by Valmay S. Young. Please note this is not an Indian census. All the individuals were in the UK in 1881.
*A list of individuals recorded in the 1841-1871 UK [England, Scotland, Wales] census as born in India/East Indies can be found at [http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/census/index.html People born in India and Burma as recorded in the UK Census's 1841-1871] As above, these are individuals resident in the UK at the time of the UK census. The list does not include residents of Scotland for 1841. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130811145802/http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/census/index.html archive.org link]) Jon Johnson's spuddybike.org.uk
*1911 England and Wales Census - [[British Army]] personnel in India, together with their families, appeared for the first time in an England and Wales Census in 1911. The census was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April, 1911. Note however, there are is at least one known instance of a soldier and his family known to be in the British Army in India at the time of the census, whose names do not appear in the census, suggesting the data may not be complete.
