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The face of changing India is increasingly evident while analysing census data. The figures throw light on a nation tilting towards more nuclear families — a couple with two children is now the household size norm, compared to the sizeable joint families that dotted the landscape in earlier decades. If 56 per cent of urban households have shrunk to four members or less, and if India is urbanising as rapidly as believed, clearly there are signs that our demographics are changing irrevocably.