{"id":9050,"date":"2010-05-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/10\/india-debates-inclusion-of-caste-in-census\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:00:00","slug":"india-debates-inclusion-of-caste-in-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/10\/india-debates-inclusion-of-caste-in-census\/","title":{"rendered":"India Debates Inclusion of Caste In Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domain-b.com\/print_article.aspx?sect=dom&#038;docid=UsWTCA2Gkao%3d\">www.domain-b.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, May 8, 2010: The national Indian government is pondering if it will include caste in the national census after a gap of 79 years, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised a decision soon. &#8220;I am aware of the views of the Members of Parliament belonging to all sections. I assure you that the cabinet will take a decision shortly,&#8221; Singh said in a brief statement in the house on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The latest move concludes a serious onslaught by backward leaders, who brought Parliament to a halt over the last few days to demand that the census include caste as a criterion in the survey. The demand picked momentum through the week, with an across-the-board consensus in its favor and the mood reflected in the union cabinet on Wednesday, when a large section of ministers reportedly argued in favor of such a headcount.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusion of caste in the census would mark a watershed in independent India, where a conscious decision was taken not to enumerate castes except scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.domain-b.com INDIA, May 8, 2010: The national Indian government is pondering if it will include caste in the national,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}