Mandal 2.0: Will the 2025 Caste Census Shatter the 50% Reservation Ceiling?
The Arithmetic of Identity: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Caste Census Debate and Its Socio-Political Trajectory in India Section 1: The Historical and Normative Foundations of Caste Enumeration The epistemological struggle to define the demographic reality of India has historically oscillated between the colonial imperative to categorize and the post-colonial imperative to unify. The decision…