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प्रशासनिक प्रसार के जनसांख्यिकीय और विकास परिणाम

भारत में अक्सर मौजूदा जिलों को विभाजित करके नए प्रशासनिक जिलों का निर्माण होता रहा है, जहां पिछले चार दशकों में जिलों की संख्या दोगुनी से अधिक हो गई है। इस लेख में, वर्ष 1991 से 2011 तक के आंकड़ों के ...

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Demographic and development outcomes of administrative proliferation

This creation of new administrative districts by splitting existing districts is a frequent occurrence in India, where the number of districts has more than doubled in the last four decades. Looking a...

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संपन्न शहरी परिवारों में जल संरक्षण को प्रेरित करना

पानी की मांग को कम करना - विशेष रूप से संपन्न, शहरी घरों में - सार्वभौमिक पहुंच सुनिश्चित करने और इसे एक किफायती मूल्य पर बनाए रखने के लिए बढ़ती आपूर्ति के बोझ को कम कर सकता है। बेंगलुरू में किये गए ए...

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Inducing water conservation in affluent urban households

Reducing the demand for water – particularly in affluent, urban households – can lower the burden of increasing supply to ensure universal access, and sustaining it at an affordable price. Based o...

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How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?

While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from t...

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Declining common lands in India: Role of economic inequality

The area under common pool land resources (CPLRs), which are crucial to rural livelihoods in India, has recorded a steady decline over the last three decades. Common land is diverted either as private...

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Diversity and public goods: Why the geographical unit of analysis matters

Research has shown that regions with higher caste diversity have lower share of villages with essential public goods. This article challenges this finding and shows that empirical models estimated at ...

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A permanent cordon-sanitaire: Dalits and Muslims in urban India

Near-perfect segregation and hierarchical ordering of residential space, based on caste or religious identity, is a well-known feature of rural India. Studies have also documented the persistence of s...

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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste

B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...

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