Does Status Single hold up?

Status Single, by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu (2018)

Interviews with urban single Indian women about stigma, work and housing.

The short answer

Close, but its count runs higher than the census and is not consistent between tellings.

The claims, checked

The 2011 census counted nearly 73 million single women.

Holds with conditions The census-based figure is 71.4 million women over 20. The author's 73 and 74 million are higher, and inconsistent with each other.

Evidence: IndiaSpend analysis of Census 2011