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Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India (Record no. 14110)

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Classification number	954.0532
Item number	RUK
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Personal name	Rukmini S.
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Title	Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	Context
Date of publication, distribution, etc	2022
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xv, 326p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount	Rs.699
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	ROOTED IN HARD FACTS AND THE MESSY POLITICAL REALITY OF INDIA, WHOLE NUMBERS AND HALF TRUTHS USES NUMBERS TO INTERROGATE AND BRING THE COUNTRY TO LIFE.<br/>How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the countryʼs growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by its progressive and liberal young, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women<br/>Is it, though<br/>In 2020, the annual population growth was down to under 1 per cent. Only thirty-one of hundred Indians live in a city today and just 5 per cent live outside the city of their birth. As recently as 2016, only 4 per cent of young, married respondents in a survey said they had a spouse belonging to a different caste group. Over 45 per cent of voters said in a pre-2014 election survey that it was important to them that a candidate of their own caste wins elections in their constituency. A large share of reported sexual assaults across India are actually consensual relationships criminalised by parents. And surprisingly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 percent of urban India<br/>In Whole Numbers and Half Truths, data-journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting experience to piece together a picture that looks nothing like the one you might expect. There is a mountain of data available on India, but it remains opaque, hard to access and harder yet to read, and it does not inform public conversation. Rukmini marshals this information—some of it never before reported—alongside probing interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, to see what the numbers can tell us about India. As she interrogates how data works, and how the push and pull of social and political forces affect it, she creates a toolkit for data, a blueprint to understand the changes of the last few years and the ones to come<br/>This is a timely and wholly original intervention in the conversation on data, and<br/>with it, India.
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Language note	English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Manners and customs
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Social conditions
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Economic history
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Item type	Books

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