Religion, Demography, Identity and Memory

Religious demography, personal law, conversion law, language, and the politics of memory and symbols.

The 8 figures in this chapter are reproduced from the report of Atlas research module M10, with the passage of the study that explains each. They keep the study’s own labels and colours: RW denotes the Hindutva-aligned bloc and LW the coalition that contests it (see A Note on Terms).

56.11.1 The physical footprint: Census places of worship (HARD)

56.23.1 Census 2011 religion: national and district picture (HARD, Census C-01)

District change, 2001→2011. This uses the 476 districts whose boundaries did not change.

**Figure 56.3.** Religion growth 2001-11

District change, 2001→2011. This uses the 476 districts whose boundaries did not change.

56.33.2 Fertility (NFHS-1 to NFHS-6, SRS 2024)

See chapter 4 for the status of the Census and caste enumeration. Seat projection: M10_delimitation_projection.csv, model scripts/delimitation_model.py. M8 cites this as T43's canonical projection.

56.43.4 Census 2027, caste enumeration and delimitation (T43 seat projection: canonical file)

**Figure 56.5.** Delimitation seat change

Identification and limits. Population projections carry error, and the RGI projection predates the Census 2027 count. The model also makes three assumptions:

56.55.1 Anti-conversion ("freedom of religion") laws: every state

Data. Five files feed this chapter:

56.66.1 The language base (Census 2011, HARD)

Identity movements in the ledger (KRV, ABSU, TIPRA Motha, NSCN-IM, Leh Apex Body, Sarna bodies and others) are coded in chapter 8. θ-only units fall mechanically into LW (codebook issue 1).

56.77.1 T51 summary: acts by category, bloc and period

Content direction by actor bloc (the mirror test for symbolic acts):