census of population
Census Flap in Ladakh About the Position of Women
A periodic census is supposed to maintain the peace among different groups in a state, to make sure that political realities are periodically balanced with population distributions. But sometimes the results are controversial. The Leh District of Ladakh was stunned a month ago when the preliminary results of the latest national census of India were […]
Population Growth in Ladakh
A news story in the Telegraph of Calcutta last week observed that the demographic trends of Ladakh are running against the Buddhists. The article indicates that the population of 236,000 Ladakhis is divided, according to the 2001 census, into 47.4 percent Muslims and 45.9 percent Buddhists. The worrisome feature of the story—at least for the […]
