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100 _aBhagat, R.B.
245 _aCensus and the construction of communalism in India
260 _c2001
300 _ap.4352-356
362 _a24 Nov
520 _aThe article highlights the role of the census in the construction of mutually exclusive religious communities and their particular demographic and geographical features in furthering the communal consciousness in colonial India through the policy of divide and rule. The perpetuation of demographic religions continued in independent India's categorisation census exercises where the demographic anxieties are paramount and the planks of social justice ignored. - Reproduced
650 _aCommunalism - India
650 _aIndia - Population
650 _aPopulation censuses
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
909 _a50718
999 _c50718
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