Numbers in India's periphery : (Record no. 21481)
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| fixed length control field | 02960cam a22002178i 4500 |
| 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, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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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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