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  "period": "August 2026",
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  "latest": {
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    "name": "Securities and Exchange Board of India",
    "url": "https://www.sebi.gov.in/reports-and-statistics/publications/monthly-bulletin.html"
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  "notes": [
    "The table retains the source’s published periods. Missing observations are not zero and have not been interpolated.",
    "Accounts are not unique investors. Active-account definitions follow the source.",
    "Combined NSDL and CDSL investor accounts. An account is not the same as an individual investor, and one person may hold more than one account."
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    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"
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  "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.",
  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Demat accounts, August 2026, https://data.indiadispatch.com/capital-markets/demat-accounts. Source: Securities and Exchange Board of India.",
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            "146.54 million"
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            "82.01 million",
            "38.82 million",
            "149.32 million"
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            "80.42 million",
            "39.16 million",
            "151.24 million"
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            "79.52 million",
            "39.45 million",
            "152.98 million"
          ]
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            "78.67 million",
            "39.75 million",
            "154.7 million"
          ]
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            "77.86 million",
            "40 million",
            "156.55 million"
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            "76.73 million",
            "40.49 million",
            "158.65 million"
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            "202.12 million",
            "75.29 million",
            "41 million",
            "161.11 million"
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            "204.6 million",
            "73.12 million",
            "41.43 million",
            "163.17 million"
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            "71.57 million",
            "42.74 million",
            "170.02 million"
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            "70.57 million",
            "43.19 million",
            "172.75 million"
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            "72.38 million",
            "43.65 million",
            "175.9 million"
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            "72.33 million",
            "44.08 million",
            "178.28 million"
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            "224.51 million",
            "73.45 million",
            "44.39 million",
            "180.12 million"
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            "226.8 million",
            "76.52 million",
            "44.75 million",
            "182.05 million"
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            "228.93 million",
            "74.51 million",
            "45.1 million",
            "183.83 million"
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            "231.55 million",
            "75.35 million",
            "45.63 million",
            "185.92 million"
          ]
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            "234.43 million",
            "78.22 million",
            "46.17 million",
            "188.26 million"
          ]
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            "237.7 million",
            "79.75 million",
            "46.7 million",
            "191 million"
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