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100	1		_aVithayathil, Trina _eauthor _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025508851 _1http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025508851
245	1	0	_aCounting caste : _bcensus politics, bureaucratic deflection, and Brahmanical power in India / _cTrina Vithayathil.
263			_a2506
264		1	_aCambridge, England ; _aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2025.
300			_axxii, 273 pages. _c 24 cm.
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365			_bRs. 1295.00
490	0		_aSouth Asia in the social sciences ; _v31
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aList of Abbreviations - List of Figures - Preface and acknowledgements - 1. Introduction: The Political Maneuvers of Caste Denial - 2. The Institutional Life of Caste - 3. The Politics of the Count - 4. Survey Making in an Era of Castelessness - 5. The Household Interview - 6. Disappeared Data: The Life and Death of Caste Data - 7. Conclusion: Commensuration in Brahmanical Institutions - Appendices - References - Index.
520			_a"States periodically agree to social justice reforms in response to organized demands for change. Counting Caste examines how and why governments make such concessions but then fail to implement them. Vithayathil unlocks the secrets of bureaucratic deflection-a process whereby political leaders and bureaucrats stall policy changes-through an in-depth examination of a caste survey in India. Political leaders conceded to collect caste-wise data in Census 2011 for the first time in India's post-independence history. Yet, in the year that followed, bureaucrats blocked a caste count in the census and rerouted it to an inexperienced part of the government. This book uncovers the plan to gather caste-wise data in an alternative project with a history of producing poor-quality data. The case of the failed caste count highlights how state institutions evade the documentation of caste power, the continued institutionalization of castelessness-which frames caste as a problem of the oppressed and hides caste privilege and power-and ongoing efforts at resisting caste hierarchy and Hindutva domination"-- Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aCaste-based discrimination _zIndia
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _zIndia
651		0	_aIndia _xCensus
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