The
initiative by the Ministry of Rural Development and the Government of
India to collect data on the caste groups in India was a highly
debated and criticised development issue in the recent years. It was
widely seen as an organized effort to categorize and stratify the
social universe of the country and to crystallize the imagined
communities of the different castes. While the government hopes to
collect reliable and timely data through this mammoth exercise,
doubts remain regarding its feasibility and effectiveness. In this
regard we wish to discuss the following aspects of the socio-economic
caste census:
1. History
of Caste Census
2. Rationale
for the Socio-Economic Caste Census
3.
Process of Enumeration
4.
Response of Different Caste Groups and communities
5.
Implications of the Socio-Economic Caste Census
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