Colonial religious voter registration manufactured demographic anxiety in Hindus

Evidence

Interestingly, Sarkar discusses the role played by the colonial power in creating this state of affairs with the 1920 colonial registration of voters in religious terms; this augmented a Hindu emphasis on demography and its related anxieties and bigotry. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Colonial classification hardening religious identity strongly parallels the British-census-freezing-caste logic from the reader’s Ambedkar material — an institutional taxonomy manufacturing rather than merely recording group consciousness. — connects to: Hindu as political identity was forged from demographic panic, not religion — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 149; Demographic anxiety drives demagogues to scapegoat racial minorities
• QUESTION: Fertile for the reader: does demographic enumeration itself (not just threat) generate the manufactured-enemy dynamic?

Broader Connections

• Hindu as political identity was forged from demographic panic, not religion #expands (0.95) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 149
• Demographic anxiety drives demagogues to scapegoat racial minorities #expands (0.80)