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registrar general and census commissioner of india 2021

registrar general and census commissioner of india 2021  @  https://census2021pdf.in/ Caste census issue: After 1872, questions related to religion and caste were asked in every census but after independence caste questions were stopped in the census. This is because after independence, the government believed that India has become a modern democracy and it is not appropriate to count people on the basis of primitive identity like caste. The government also believed that caste and casteism would end if caste was not counted.     Questions related to caste were asked in the year 1941, but due to the Second World War, the figures could not be compiled.     After independence, caste was not counted from 1951 to 2011. Despite not having caste-based census before 2011 census, each census included some questions related to caste, such as information about the population of people belonging to scheduled castes.     The constitution provides for political reservation to the scheduled c