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Data, Research, and Tools Focused on South Asia

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🗳️ Electoral Rolls: Rolls for all states, Bihar 2020, UP 2023, Assam 2026, Polling stations, Constituency shapefiles, Parsing searchable and scanned rolls, Fast OCR

🌾 Land Records: Records of rights from Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, Distribution of land in Bihar, Caste as an impediment to trade, revisited

🍚 Welfare: Ration cards from Rajasthan and Bihar, Detecting fake ration cards, MNREGA reports and social audits, RTI audits

🏛️ Local Elections: Seat reservations across states, Elections in Bihar, Haryana, Kerala, Rajasthan, UP, and Uttarakhand, Panchayat Advancement Index, Gram sabha reports, Candidate entry

⚖️ Impact of Quotas: Effects of reserving seats for women on development, representation, who gets elected, governance, age at marriage, and ration leakage, Replications of Beaman et al. 2012 and Chaturvedi et al. 2023

🏷️ Names, Caste, and Demography: What a surname reveals about caste, Caste in restaurant names, Statutory caste lists, Socio-Economic Caste Census, Sex ratio by last name, Spousal age gap, Surname resolution, Transliteration

🇮🇳 National Politics: Politician biographies, Missing daughters of MPs, Wasted votes in 2024, MPLADS spending

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  1. electoral_rolls electoral_rolls Public

    PDFs of Indian Electoral Rolls

    HTML 30 19

  2. indicate indicate Public

    transliterate hindi, punjabi to english

    Python 18 3

  3. spousal_age_gap spousal_age_gap Public

    Spousal Age Gap in India. Estimate: 80% larger than the US.

    Jupyter Notebook 4

  4. local_reservations local_reservations Public

    Data on Indian local elections, including reservation status

    HTML 4

  5. last-name-basis last-name-basis Public

    How much does an Indian last name tell you about caste? Guess a stranger's and you're wrong 25 times in 100; hear their surname and you're wrong 20. For 91% of people the name changes nothing.

    Python 2

  6. quota_spending quota_spending Public

    Effects of Randomly Assigned Reservations for Women Leaders in Indian Local Government on Allocation and Development Outcomes

    R 2 1

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  • gs_meetings Public

    Gram Sabha participation reports

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    Python 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 17, 2026
  • cant-buy-me-love Public

    R reproduction and audit of Dugar, Bhattacharya & Reiley (2012), Can't Buy Me Love? Field experiment on caste and income in Anandabazar Patrika matrimonial ads

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    R 1 0 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • local_elections_bihar Public

    Bihar panchayat elections: 2016 candidates and votes for six offices; 2021 mukhiya candidates, results, winners and seat reservations

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    Python 3 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • for-better-or-caste Public

    R reproduction and review of Banerjee, Duflo, Ghatak & Lafortune (2013), Marry for What? Caste and mate selection in modern India

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    Stata 1 0 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • pai Public

    Panchayat Advancement Index (PAI) Scores from https://pai.gov.in/ for 2022--2024

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    Python 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • local_elections_rajasthan Public

    Rajasthan GP Election Reservation Status and Results for 2020--2022

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    Python 2 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • electoral_rolls_up_2023 Public

    Uttar Pradesh Electoral Rolls 2023

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    Jupyter Notebook 3 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • electoral_rolls Public

    PDFs of Indian Electoral Rolls

    in-rolls/electoral_rolls's past year of commit activity
    HTML 30 19 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • local_reservations Public

    Data on Indian local elections, including reservation status

    in-rolls/local_reservations's past year of commit activity
    HTML 4 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • local_elections_uttarakhand Public

    Data on Local Elections from Uttarakhand

    in-rolls/local_elections_uttarakhand's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
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