Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
by Rukmini S
Description
Using statistics, surveys, reporting, and conversations with citizens and experts, this incisive work examines what India’s data reveals—and what popular assumptions conceal—about urbanisation, migration, caste, politics, gender, crime, and economic life. It challenges familiar narratives of a rapidly transforming nation, showing how definitions, incomplete records, and social pressures shape the numbers that inform public debate. Grounded in nearly two decades of journalism, the book offers an accessible guide to reading data critically while presenting a nuanced portrait of contemporary India. It is both an investigation into the country’s realities and a practical invitation to question the stories numbers are used to tell.
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Context
Published Sep 28, 2022
346 pages
ISBN: 9789391234676
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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