Vikas Pathak; Abhinavchakraborty · DistrictNews · 2026-08-19
How India plans to count caste this time — and what went wrong previously
The ongoing census will have no predetermined list of castes, and it will be up to the respondent to mention their caste. This could lead to an unwieldy list, as it happened during the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census. How India plans to count caste this time — and what went wrong previously
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