The frameworks the sector runs on,
checked against the evidence
Development work leans on a small number of diagrams. They get drawn on whiteboards, put into proposals and taught in workshops, mostly without anyone checking what the Indian evidence behind them says.
Fundamentals takes one framework at a time, makes it interactive, and attaches the Indian evidence to every position in it. Two rules hold across the series. Nothing goes in without a named source and a year. And every position says what the evidence does not settle.
Four so far
Each framework belongs to someone else and is credited in full on its own page. ImpactMojo supplies the evidence layer underneath.
The Wheel of Power & Powerlessness →
Twelve axes along which Indian society sorts people, three bands on each, and 113 sourced statistics, statutes and judgments behind the 36 positions. Asks who holds power.
Wheel by The Listeners Collective, Bengaluru · adapting Sylvia Duckworth
The Ladder of Citizen Participation →
Eight rungs from manipulation to citizen control, with the Indian law, scheme or judgment that puts a real practice on each. Asks what people actually got to decide.
Ladder by Sherry R. Arnstein, 1969
The Power Cube →
Spaces, levels and forms of power, with the Indian evidence for each of nine categories and eight cases plotted on all three at once. Asks how power is being exercised.
Cube by John Gaventa, IDS, 2006
Who Counts →
Eight gaps in India’s official data, what each one costs, and the nearest substitute. Asks who the state does not see.
ImpactMojo · the one framework in the series that is our own
How a position earns its place
Every entry in the series has to be backed by a national statistical source, a statute or constitutional provision, or a reported judgment. Where a figure cannot be sourced to a named publication and year, it is not on the page.
That leaves gaps, and the pages show them rather than filling them with plausible numbers. India collects no data on sexual orientation. It records disability at 2.2% of the population against a global estimate nearer 16%. It has not enumerated caste beyond SC and ST since 1931. Where a placement rests on a pattern rather than a statistic, the entry says so.
Corrections are wanted. If a figure here is stale, misattributed or misread, tell us or open an issue on GitHub.
Read alongside
The Data Room holds twelve interactive explorers built on India’s official surveys — what the country does measure. The Long View is the data-visualisation studio. The Inequality Basics course covers the concepts these frameworks assume.