Counting caste : census politics, bureaucratic deflection, and brahmanical power in India / Trina Vithayathil.

By:

Vithayathil, Trina [author]

Language: English Publication details: UK : Cambridge, 2025.ISBN:

9781009414111

Subject(s):

Socio-Economic and Caste Census

Summary: States periodically agree to social justice reforms in response to organized demands for change. Counting Caste examines how and why governments make such concessions but then fail to implement them. Vithayathil unlocks the secrets of bureaucratic deflection―a process whereby political leaders and bureaucrats stall policy changes―through an in-depth examination of a caste survey in India. Political leaders conceded to collect caste-wise data in Census 2011 for the first time in India's post-independence history.

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States periodically agree to social justice reforms in response to organized demands for change. Counting Caste examines how and why governments make such concessions but then fail to implement them. Vithayathil unlocks the secrets of bureaucratic deflection―a process whereby political leaders and bureaucrats stall policy changes―through an in-depth examination of a caste survey in India. Political leaders conceded to collect caste-wise data in Census 2011 for the first time in India's post-independence history.

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