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Editor's note: This is the 12th edition of Thirty-six, The Morning Context’s weekly newsletter on countless ecosystems in flux across India. The Modi government doesn’t want to conduct a caste census next year. In recent weeks, it has tried to convince the Supreme Court that the exercise is neither desirable nor feasible. In 2016, it had said that 98.7% of data on caste and religion, recorded as part of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011, was “error free”. In an affidavit last week, it claimed that the same data was “unusable”. To illustrate, the government cited the stark difference in the number of castes recorded by the 1931 census and the 2011 SECC. The 1931 census had recorded 4,147 castes in India. The SECC, surprisingly, had found 46 lakh. The number of castes could not have shot up by over 45 lakh in 70 years, the Centre argued. This had happened because of the lack of uniformity in data gathering. In many cases, the same caste was recorded under different spellings. Some castes merged, some bifurcated into sub-castes — as …
Editor's note: This is the 12th edition of Thirty-six, The Morning Context’s weekly newsletter on countless ecosystems in flux across India. The Modi government doesn’t want to conduct a caste census next year. In recent weeks, it has tried to convince the Supreme Court that the exercise is neither desirable nor feasible. In 2016, it had said that 98.7% of data on caste and religion, recorded as part of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011, was “error free”. In an affidavit last week, it claimed that the same data was “unusable”. To illustrate, the government cited the stark difference in the number of castes recorded by the 1931 census and the 2011 SECC. The 1931 census had recorded 4,147 castes in India. The SECC, surprisingly, had found 46 lakh. The number of castes could not have shot up by over 45 lakh in 70 years, the Centre argued. This had happened because of the lack of uniformity in data gathering. In many cases, the same caste was recorded under different spellings. Some castes merged, some bifurcated into sub-castes — as …
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
Millions of enumerators working for the country’s first-ever fully digital census are relying on an app so choppy that many have to go back to pen and paper.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
Millions of enumerators working for the country’s first-ever fully digital census are relying on an app so choppy that many have to go back to pen and paper.
