Whole Numbers and Half Truths (Record no. 62803)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789395073004
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
Bill Number : ZBD0480
Bill Date : 09/02/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 334.7 RUK
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rukmini, S.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Whole Numbers and Half Truths
Remainder of title : What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / S. Rukmini.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Contxt Publisher
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 326p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 489
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc ROOTED IN HARD FACTS AND THE MESSY POLITICAL REALITY OF INDIA, WHOLE NUMBERS AND HALF TRUTHS USES NUMBERS TO INTERROGATE AND BRING THE COUNTRY TO LIFE.<br/><br/>How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the countryʼs growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by its progressive and liberal young, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women .<br/><br/>Is it, though?<br/><br/>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 they had a spouse belonging 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 surprisingly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 percent of urban India.<br/><br/>In Whole Numbers and Half Truths, data-journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting experience to piece together a picture that looks nothing like the one you might expect. There is a mountain of data available on India, but it remains opaque, hard to access and harder yet to read, and it does not inform public conversation. Rukmini marshals this information—some of it never before reported—alongside probing interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, to see what the numbers can tell us about India. As she interrogates how data works, and how the push and pull of social and political forces affect it, she creates a toolkit for data, a blueprint to understand the changes of the last few years and the ones to come.<br/><br/>This is a timely and wholly original intervention in the conversation on data, and with it, India.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Whole Numbners
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Half Truths
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Modern India.
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Personal name Rukmini S
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 11/02/2025 Zafaa Books & Distributors 489.00   334.7 RUK 30707 11/02/2025 11/02/2025 Books
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