Sonalde Desai

Sonalde Desai

sociologist India

Sonalde Desai is a demographer and sociologist who emphasizes the importance of updating caste data to inform India's affirmative action policies. She argues that without a fresh caste census, policies remain blind to the realities of caste-based inequalities and advocates for a thoughtful approach to data collection that considers income and educational indicators alongside caste.

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United Kingdom United Kingdom: Sonalde Desai argues that without a fresh caste census, India's affirmative action policies operate blindly. 5

BBC: The case for and against counting castes in India