We need well-designed and nationally-accepted tools to measure social inequality
Several states in India have collected detailed caste and sub-caste data over the past few years. There are three key reasons behind the reluctance to conduct a nation-wide caste census: fear of legitimizing caste, vested interests, and concerns related to data integrity. In a comprehensive caste count, demands to club different caste names in one group or split one name into separate entities could overwhelm the census office, the former census official B.K. In addition to the statutory census data, non-statutory surveys of villages and weddings were conducted to collect caste details, wrote Burman, a noted anthropologist who headed this initiative. The census office roped in independent scholars to conduct village-level case studies that documented changing profiles of caste relations and caste mobility in rural India.
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