Numbers in India's periphery : (Record no. 21481)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781108486729
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 315.4
Item number AGR
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Author name Agrawal, Ankush,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Numbers in India's periphery :
Sub Title the political economy of government statistics /
Statement of responsibility, etc Ankush Agrawal, Vikas Kumar.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New Delhi, India :
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press,
Year of publication 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxi, 397 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I. Introduction -- State and statistics -- Nagaland and numbers -- Part II. Key statistics -- Cartographic 'mess' -- Demographic somersault -- Winning censuses -- Flawed surveys -- Part III. Policy implications -- Data, development and democracy.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Over the past two centuries, the deep and multifaceted relation between statistics and statecraft has emerged as a defining feature of modern states across the world. Governments increasingly depend upon statistics for planning and evaluation of interventions as well as self-representation. Numbers in India's Periphery examines systematic and deliberate errors in government statistics. Using field interviews, archival sources and secondary data, the book explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics and charts their cradle-to-grave political career in Nagaland, a state located in India's landlocked ethnogeographic periphery stretching from Mizoram to Jammu and Kashmir. This book examines the area (1951-2018), population (1951-2011) and National Sample Survey statistics (1973-2014) of Nagaland, treating them as part of a larger family of mutually constitutive statistics embedded in a shared context. It shows that Nagaland's government statistics suffer from sustained and large errors. It argues that statistics are shaped by a combination of factors, including contests over the delimitation of administrative units and electoral constituencies in the context of weak institutions and dominance of the state in the economy. It also engages with the shared experience of other states of India, including Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur, and other countries in Africa and Asia and non-governmental statistics such as church membership data. Numbers in India's Periphery uncovers a mutually constitutive relationship between data, development and democracy deficits and offers an exciting account of how statistics are social artefacts dynamically shaped over their life cycle by political and economic factors. It contributes to the under-researched field of the political economy of statistics in developing countries"--
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Geographic subdivision India
Subject Politics and government
Form subdivision Statistics
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Geographic subdivision India
Subject Politics and government
Form subdivision Statistics
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 21st century.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Subject India
Form subdivision Population
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Author 2/ Editor Kumar, Vikas,
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Institute of Public Enterprise, Library Institute of Public Enterprise, Library S Campus 01/05/2022 Shah Book House. 1000.00 29-12-2021 315.4 AGR 45861 01/05/2022 Books

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