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I don't think India is a surveillance state. At least it doesn't look like one so far. The biometric data that is collected doesn't seem to have been consolidated so far and used by the state. At least not in a way that is publicly known.
The mean reason I say this is because India is extremely lawless and this lawlessness seems to be unaffected by the existing surveillance apparatus. Only the a negligible fraction of all violent crimes committed seem to get police response or public attention.
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