Kundu, Amiabh
Case system and caste counting in India
- India International Center Quarterly
- 52(2), Autumn 2025: p.1-11
The caste system and collection of case data in India has a complex history. The 1931 census is remembered as the last census which enamored people by their castes along with other socioeconomic chareac4erstics. This is lot hen mentioned or quoted as an ideal which India has failed to maintain in subsequent decades. The demand in the past one and a half decades to bring the caste data within the framework of the population census or collect the data through large scale surveys has other referred to the 1931 census data as the reference point or a landmark., - Reproduced