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The “C” word that has just popped up in our national headlines refers to what should have been routine — the Census. As we know, however, these haven’t been particularly routine times in our political history. In the past decade, many old rules have been reinvented, some buried, and many put in cold storage.
One of those was the decennial Census. The news that the Narendra Modi government is finally making preparations for the long-delayed decennial Census of 2021 leads us to examine a larger reality, represented by three more Cs. If this government is Modi 3.0,
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