Hyderabad, May 10 -- The recent release of Karnataka's Socio-Economic Educational Survey (SEES 2015) findings, popularised as the Caste Census 2015, has been drawing nationwide attention particularly owing to the timing of its release almost a decade after it was conducted. The controversy and data questioning has particularly been fuelled by the fact that the findings were unfavourable for the powerful and dominant sections of the state as it called for a re-ordering of the reservation categories.

Similar undertakings scrutinising demographics of the state such as caste and religion, particularly examining them from an economic lens such as education and income divides, etc., have previously been done in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and B...