Will caste-based surveys lead to both inclusion, exclusion?
Caste has, for generations, defined the social status, occupation and mindset of that community. It is not easy to violate the caste hierarchy which had sanctions from religious texts. Frustrated with the caste system, Ambedkar, in his ‘Annihilation of Caste’ said, “You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.”