STATE AND DISTRICT BOUNDARY CHANGES IN INDIA-(1961-2001)

Hemanshu Kumar and Rohini Somanathan
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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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No 248, Working papers from Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Abstract: 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:

Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2015-11
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