Can I read Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India on EtoBox?

Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India by Rukmini Shrinivasan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India about?

How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by progressive and liberal young Indians, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women. Is it, though? 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 their spouse belonged 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 staggeringly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 per cent of urban India. In Whole Numbers and Half Truths, data-journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting

Who reads Whole numbers and half truths : what data can and cannot tell us about modern India?

Author

Rukmini Shrinivasan

Publisher

Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789391234676

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Social_sciences

Rating

4.6 / 5 (381 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14