Our list of deaths has been compiled from the following sources between February 24, 2020 and March 2, 2020. We will be updating this list as new information becomes available. The sources are:

1. Deaths recorded at hospitals which have been released to the public.
2. Deaths reported by FirstPost, Indian Express, The Wire, Quint and Print.in.
3. Deaths reported in other print news stories filed by credible journalists.

To undertake this task we have triangulated and cross-referenced information across these different sources to arrive at names of people who were felled in this violence. If a name does not appear in at least two different lists published, we have not included it. We have also not included unidentified bodies that have been counted in some of the other enumerations of death tolls.  We have only added those unidentified persons of whom we are reasonably sure, an identification has not been made. This helps us avoid counting the same person twice. So this is essentially a list of confirmed deaths. However, as there is movement in this data everyday with bodies being identified and given names, histories and proper personhood, we are releasing this as data subject to revision as new information emerges.