The India Human Development Surveys conducted by NCAER and University of Maryland have put out two sets of data based on interviews with over 40,000 households across India. These surveys were conducted in 2004-5 and again in 2011-12. Here are a few things that these data say on caste in India.
Based on IHDS-I, 2004-5
Desai, Sonalde and Amaresh Dubey. 2011. “Caste in 21st Century India: Competing Narratives.” Economic and Political Weekly, 46(11): 40-49.
Based on IHDS-II 2011-12
Thorat, A. and Joshi, O. So Who is Practicing Untouchability in India? IHDS blog 26 Aug 2015
News stories
Just 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste: survey TH Rukmini S 13 Nov 2014
Biggest caste survey: One in four Indians admit to practising untouchability IE 29 Nov 2014
Is untouchability the problem or is it caste? Livemint G. Sampath 2 Dec 2014
Casteism exists in India, let’s not remain in denial HT Namita Bhandare 6 Dec 2014
A recent article on quotas in The Hindu:
Quantifying the caste quotas TH Sonalde Desai 26 Feb, 2016
And for something positive: Inter-caste marriages on the rise despite odds “Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhagam (TPDK) …, authorised to enable registration of inter-caste marriages, has organised more than 3,000 inter-caste marriages since 2000,” going up fr0m 50 in 2000 to 385 in 2015. The Hindu 16/3/2016
The Invisible Other: Caste in Tamil Cinema “a documentary film that explores the presence of caste in films and film production in Tamil cinema, especially since the 1990s.”