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100			_aKumar, Niraj _958299
245			_aBackward caste mobilisation and the caste census in Bihar: Some reflections
260			_aSocial Scientist
300			_a53(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2025: p.59-76
520			_a There has been a growing demand since the late twentieth century to enumerate caste, especially the backward castes, in the census conducted by the union government every ten years a practice commonly referred to as a caste census. Emendation of a all casts in a census has never been carried out in post Independence India, the exception being the scheduled castes (SCs) and the scheduled tribes (STs), although he Kallekar commission had recommend it for the 1964 census. – Reproduced
773			_aSocial Scientist
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