NEW DELHI -- In an apparent policy shift, the Indian government has recently decided to include caste details of all Indians in the country's census exercise for the first time since independence in 1947.
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India's cabinet recently green-lit a detailed caste census for the first time since it was last held in 1931 during British rule. (Source photos by Yuji Kuronuma and Kosaku Mimura)
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