Numbers in India's Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics

by Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar

This book analyses the quality of statistics such as geographic area, census population and sample survey statistics in a developing country. Using field interviews, archival sources, and secondary data covering the last seven decades, it explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics over their lifecycles and charts their cradle-to-grave political career. It uncovers a mutually constitutive relationship between data, development,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110848672X
• ISBN13: 9781108486729
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.2"