Counting Faith, Counting Files: Why a Religion-Blind Administration Could Not Answer the Demography Committee
State governments have told The Hindu they cannot answer most of the panel's 35-point questionnaire. The questions also seek intelligence assessments on religious conversions among Scheduled Tribes, details of detention centres and district-wise mapping of religious structures built in the last 15 years. The committee, constituted on May 26, has not yet received data from the Election Commission on electors removed in the…