Book Review of Anand Teltumbde, The Caste Con Census | Srinivasulu Karli

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The Caste Con Census
by Anand Teltumbde

Navayana Publishing, New Delhi
2025

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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli

There is a strong association made out in the existing discourse on caste in which caste data collected through the census is shown to be critical to the pursuance of social justice politics. This, of course, is sharply articulated by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan of ’jitni abadi, utna haq’ (rights proportionate to one