What have the Bihar caste survey and Telangana’s 2025 caste survey revealed? How is a social management approach different from top-down welfare models? Would a caste census deepen social divide and undermine national unity? What about democratic accountability?
Final methodology to enumerate caste as part of Census 2027 will be prepared based on the feedback received during the test exercise; the open column methodology had resulted in the 2011 caste survey returning over 46 lakh different ‘caste names’