Silent Transformation: Census rewriting SC, ST narrative

Indians, all of them, across class and caste, traded up over the past decade, a period of rapid and record economic growth—that’s the counter-intuitive message in the latest update to Census 2011. According to the so-called houselisting data released by the census, scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) have, like the rest of the country, and allowing for some variations across regions, demonstrated a visible growth in their material well-being, especially in terms of their access to telecommunication...

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