Demography and Identity

This part concerns the composition of the population and the political loyalties that rest on it. It is the slowest-moving layer of the Atlas: religious demography changes over decades, and the cross-caste coalitions and committed electorates built on it change over electoral cycles. Every domain above draws on it, since votes, cadres, donors and audiences are all recruited from the same population.

The domain reads 41.2. Its arenas, with their weights and readings:

1. 5Religious Demography and Electoral Geography
2. 6Cross-Caste Voting Cohesion among Hindus
3. 7The Committed Core Electorate