As an NRI I was crazy about India and wished to see it inside out. After moving to India, I enrolled on surveying villages for the Madhya Pradesh elections (with Arthashatra org -- credits at end of article).

The goal is Jaati-Samikaran— find the caste breakdown of a district and push it into a statistical model to predict voting patterns.

How we did it-- We’d pick a constituency and drive the car literally into any village. Any village! We’d take any left turn. Any right turn. Whatever we felt. It was so liberating to see India that way. We never knew who we’d meet. Or what we’d see.

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