Agrawal, Ankush and Kumar, Vikas
(2017)
Notes on Nagaland’s area.
Working Paper.
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Abstract
Empirical research in economics and, to a lesser extent, in other social sciences is largely
dependent upon government statistics. It is generally assumed that governments are
committed to collecting and disseminating correct statistics. As a result, the mutually
constitutive relationship between politics, economy, and statistics, and the possibility of
systematic manipulation of statistics driven by the structural features of this relationship,
has received insuf�icient attention within economics. This paper examines the implications
of the absence of shared preferences over the quality of statistics within a government. It
explores the multiplicity of con�licting maps of the State of Nagaland issued by different
tiers and wings of the government to underscore the lack of attention paid to a statistic
as crucial as area. The paper situates the cartographic-statistical confusion in its political
and economic contexts, and suggeststhat political-geographic arguments are being used to
advance political-economic interests along contested borders. It argues that the confusion
is not amenable to a technical resolution as it islinked to the dispute over Nagaland’s place
within the Union of India and the border disputes between Nagaland and its neighbouring
states.
| Item Type: |
Monograph
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| Authors: |
Agrawal, Ankush and Kumar, Vikas |
| Document Language: |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Area,Assam,Borderdispute,Census,Con�lict,Federation,India,Map,Nagaland,
Population, Statistics |
| Subjects: |
Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities |
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Azim Premji University > University Publications > Working Paper |
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Public |
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| URI: |
http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/17 |
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