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Caste Census: Understanding Inequalities

The document discusses the importance of conducting a caste census in India to better understand societal structures and address inequalities, despite resistance due to concerns about exacerbating caste discrimination. It highlights the historical context of census data collection and its potential benefits for policy-making. The conclusion emphasizes the urgency of addressing caste issues in contemporary society to avoid negative sociopolitical and economic consequences.

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Caste Census: Understanding Inequalities

The document discusses the importance of conducting a caste census in India to better understand societal structures and address inequalities, despite resistance due to concerns about exacerbating caste discrimination. It highlights the historical context of census data collection and its potential benefits for policy-making. The conclusion emphasizes the urgency of addressing caste issues in contemporary society to avoid negative sociopolitical and economic consequences.

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Caste census in

Bihar

PRESENTED BY
MRINAL RAJ
CUSB2313125066
Introduction

 the Census of India, one of the largest exercises of its kind, enumerates and
collects demographic and socio-economic information on the Indian
[Link], the critiques of the exercise of the census consider it as
both a data collection effort and a technique of governance, but not quite useful
enough for a detailed and comprehensive understanding of a complex society.
They suggest regular conduct of Caste Census in order to understand the societal
structure [Link] is indeed strange that while caste plays such a dominant
role in our social, economic and political life, no credible and comprehensive
caste data exists for more than half the population of our country. But the
conduct of the Caste census itself has garnered resistance from within the
society/critics that it may accentuate caste-based discrimination and violence.
What Is census?

 The origin of the Census in India goes back to the colonial exercise of
[Link] has evolved and been used by the government, policymakers,
academics, and others to capture the Indian population, access resources,
map social change, delimitation exercise, [Link], as early as the
1940s, W.W.M. Yeatts, Census Commissioner for India for the 1941 Census,
had pointed out that “the census is a large, immensely powerful, but blunt
instrument unsuited for specialized inquiry.”
First caste census as SECC

 SECC was conducted for the first time in [Link] is meant to canvass
every Indian family, both in rural and urban India, and ask about their-
Economic status, so as to allow Central and State authorities to come up
with a range of indicators of deprivation, permutations, and combinations of
which could be used by each authority to define a poor or deprived person .
It is also meant to ask every person their specific caste name to allow the
government to re-evaluate which caste groups were economically worst off
and which were better off . SECC has the potential to allow for a mapping of
inequalities at a broader level.
Benefit in
Policy Making

Reveal
To Burst the Privileged
Myths Section of
Society

Significance of
caste census

Reduce
Constitutional Inclusion and
Mandate Exclusion
Errors

To Address
Prevalent
Inequalities
Associated Problems with Caste
Census
Repercussion Caste Is
s of Caste Context-
Census specific

Lack of Trust
Other Issues
& Clarity
Conclusion

 A caste census may not sit well with the goal of a casteless
society, but it may serve as a means of addressing inequities in
[Link] every passing day and increasing social awareness,
the urgency to do away with the caste system is being sharply
felt. Dr. BR Ambedkar stated that if India had to attain a place of
pride among the comity of nations, caste would have to be
annihilated [Link] 21st century is the right time to solve India’s
caste question, which would otherwise extract a heavy price, not
just sociologically, but also politically and economically, and
make us fall behind in the development index.

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