A census counts the total population, and under various categories and qualities — rural and urban, Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), economic activity, literacy and education, housing ...

Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

The scope of the work is enormous. The premise is that as recently as 1928, 12 modern nations - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...

Maratha dominions and other Indian states had developed fairly detailed caste enumerations, used to regulate hierarchies and impose differential taxation and privileges.

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan sent a letter to all ... comprised numbers of members from the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) communities.

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After an unprecedented delay of six years, India is finally set to conduct its next Census, the world’s largest population-counting exercise in two phases. The government announced that the process ...

Sociologist Trina Vithayathil, author of Counting Caste, contends that the Census 2027 offers a rare chance to map the intersections of caste, gender, and religion. Yet without institutional ...

The government has formally announced that the 16th Census of India will take place in two phases, with the reference dates set as March 1, 2027, for most of the country and October 1, 2026, for ...

UPSC Geography map-based questions asked in the prelims exam aim to assess the knowledge of candidates about the Indian states and their neighbouring countries, rivers – origin, tributaries ...

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Rahul Gandhi aims to empower India's tribal communities by strengthening their political representation within the Congress ...