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State And District Boundary Changes In India-(1961-2001)

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  • Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanathan

    (Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India)

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For a large variety of data recorded by the Census of India, such as those on language, age structure, religion, and on individual Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the district is the lowest level of aggregation at which these data are published. Between 1961, when the first comprehensive census of independent India was conducted, and the Census of 2001, which is the last census for which complete data have been published, the number of districts in India increased from 339 to 593. In this paper we describe these boundary changes, and construct a set of 232 regions with consistent boundaries between 1961–2001, that span the entire country. Our methodology permits a careful construction of district-level panels between any two census years in this period, using the detailed tables provided.Classification-JEL:

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  • Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanathan, 2015. "State And District Boundary Changes In India-(1961-2001)," Working papers 248, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
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    1. Hemanshu Kumar & Rohini Somanathan, 2009. "Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001," Working papers 176, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
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    1. Hemanshu Kumar & Rohini Somanathan, 2016. "Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India," WIDER Working Paper Series 085, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Hertweck, Matthias & Brey, Bjoern, 2017. "The Persistent Effects of Monsoon Rainfall Shocks in India: A Nonlinear VAR Approach," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168256, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Hemanshu Kumar & Rohini Somanthan, 2016. "Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-85, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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