India’s population doubled between 1947 and the 1981 census, and by the 2001 census it had surpassed one billion. The increase between 1991 and 2001 alone—more than 182 million—was greater than the total present-day population of all but the world’s most-populous countries, and that ...
IS CASTE A BRITISH CONSTRUCT? Under British rule, the caste system, which had previously been more fluid, was made more rigid with use of the census, which classified the entire nation into categories and schedules, said Ananya Chakravarti, associate professor of history at Geo...
000 in 1980 to about 2.7 million in 2021. The group South Asian Americans Leading Together reports that nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S. — up from the 3.5 million counted in the 2010 census. Most trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri ...
chance that all four of their grandparents will be from the same jati-varna, in large part because a lot of Indian immigrants themselves are couples in “mixed” marriages (I put the quotations there because in the US Census the marriage of a Tamil Brahmin and a Punjabi Khatri is endog...
Under British rule, the caste system, which had previously been more fluid, was made more rigid with use of the census, which classified the entire nation into categories and schedules, said Ananya Chakravarti, associate professor of history at Georgetown University who focuses on South Asia and ...
In the 2021 UK census, members of the Ravidassia community rallied to have its members choose the ‘other’ within the religion category and not Sikh. Opinderjit Thakar who is a scholar of Religious Studies has noted in her work the separation between the two communities that has grown out ...
W.M. Rattigan, A Digest of the Civil Law for the Punjab Chiefly based upon the Customary Law as Present Ascertained. Cited in (Chowdhry 2017, p. 121). 10 According to the 2011 Census, Punjab had 31.94 percent of its population listed as Scheduled Caste, highest across all the states of...