Multiple choice

Between 1947 and 2011, there was only one instance of a caste-count in post-independence India. In which of the following states was this caste census conducted?

  1. Kerala

  2. Gujarat

  3. Goa

  4. Uttar Pradesh

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Explanation

There is only one instance of a caste-count in post-independence India. It was conducted in Kerala in 1968 by the Communist government under E. M. S. Namboodiripad to assess the social and economic backwardness of various lower castes. The census was termed asa Socio-Economic Survey of 1968 and the results were published in the Gazetteer of Kerala, 1971.