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After decades of delay, India will include caste in its national census for the first time since 1931—but political challenges lie ahead.

Many of us were Catholic; our grandparents spoke fluent Louisiana Creole, and we ate gumbo for breakfast a time or two. Our heritage was molded out of a three-caste society among other things.

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste discrimination in 1950.

As the name suggests, caste census is a caste-based survey of the country's population aimed to determine the exact number of people of each caste living in India as accurately as humanly possible.

Bihar's Caste Survey The starting point we take, however, is 2022, when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar - who has consistently championed a caste census - ordered a state-wide enumeration.

The years leading up to the government's go-ahead for a pan-India caste census has been marked by a significant shift in the BJP and Congress' stance on the issue of caste-based reservations.

The Caste Census - History, Political Implications Explained The caste-based census was approved by the government on Wednesday triggering a credit war between the ruling and the Opposition.

India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi said today that the Centre's decision to club caste census with next year's population census is a welcome step though taken under pressure.

A caste census surveys caste-wise population data, including distribution, socio-economic status, education levels, and other related demographic details.