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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Are you Arya Samaji, Bohra, Marthomite or Kuka? - Dinesh Narayanan

Are you Arya Samaji, Bohra, Marthomite or Kuka? - Dinesh Narayanan

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published Published on Apr 21, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 21, 2019
-The Economic Times

For next census, proposal being debated on adding separate heads for sects/branches of 6 major faiths.

NEW DELHI:
Are you a Kabir Panthi or a Marthomite or a follower of the Hinayana sect or an Ahmadia or a Kuka? Confused? These are sub-faiths under the rubrics of, respectively, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism.

Census 2021 may ask Indians to identify not just whether they belong to one of the six broad religious categories – Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist – but also which branch/sect of these faiths they identify with.

If the proposal, under discussion at the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India (RGI), is accepted, data on India’s religious diversity will be captured across a staggering 49 sub-categories of six major religions of India – Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism .

Census is a decennial exercise. RGI is gearing up for the 2021 exercise — 2011 was the last one — in the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country and is considering allotting separate data collection codes to sects and denominations. India first collected information relating to citizens’ faith in Census 2001.

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The Economic Times, 20 April, 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/are-you-arya-samaji-bohra-marthomite-or-kuka/articleshow/68961625.cms?utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_


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