Census 2027: raise its credibility through a consensus on how castes are best enumerated
That said, there does not appear to be any clarity on how this data will be collected. Unlike other characteristics of population such as age, gender, religion, education and so on, which use standard definitions and categories, the collection of caste data is complicated. To be sure, data on castes was collected in Censuses before independence, the last being in 1931.
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