Census classes on faith are mutually unique – is that this an issue? Can EWS quotas be applied with out realizing related numbers? What’ll the drive towards ‘illegals’ do to inner migration? Ought to govt statistical authorities be answerable to Parliament?

These and different questions, lots of them making present headlines, are the forte of inhabitants scientist and demographer Ram B Bhagat , creator of Inhabitants & the Political Creativeness: Census, Register & Citizenship in India. He’s former professor, Worldwide Institute for Inhabitants Sciences. Excerpts of a wide-ranging dialog with Nandita Sengupta :

​● Census work has begun. First ideas?
Colonial India used Census as an instrument of governance, not for growth. Earlier than that, there was no consciousness of minority or majority amongst India’s many peoples. Census requested about faith. With it entered a consciousness amongst Indians of numbers. It was the colonial means of taking a look at individuals.

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