BOOK
(with Vikas Kumar), Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of India’s Government Statistics. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/numbers-in-indias-periphery/FE61682...
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(with Vikas Kumar), “Delays in the release of India’s census data”, Statistical Journal of the IAOS. forthcoming, https://content.iospress.com/articles/statistical-journal-of-the-iaos/sj...
(with Tushar Agrawal), “Who Gains More from Education? A Comparative Analysis of Business, Farm and Wage Workers in India”, The Journal of Development Studies, 55:6, 1081-1098, 2019, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2018.1443209
(with Chavi Asrani), “Digital Divide among the Indian households: extent and correlates”, Economics Bulletin, 38: 4, 2444-2466, 2018
(with Vikas Kumar), “Cartographic conflicts within a union: Finding Land for Nagaland in India”, Political Geography, 61, pp. 123-147, 2017, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629816301913
(with Bina Agarwal), “Do Farmers Really Like Farming? Indian Farmers in Transition”, Oxford Development Studies, 45: 4, pp. 460-478, 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2017.1283010
(with Tushar Agrawal), “Vocational Education and Training in India: A Labour Market Perspective”, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 69: 2, pp. 246-65, 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13636820.2017.1303785
(with Vikas Kumar), “A Cartographic Mess: How much is Nagaland’s area?”,Economic and Political Weekly, XLXII: 29, pp. 18-21, 2017, http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/29/commentary/cartographic-mess.html
(with M H Suryanarayana and K Seeta Prabhu), “Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index for India’s States”, Indian Journal of Human Development, 10(2), pp. 157-175, 2016, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973703016675793 ; Working Paper version: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/india/docs/inequality_adjusted_human_dev...
(with Vikas Kumar), “Infirmities in NSSO Data for Nagaland”, Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX: 12, pp. 20-22, 2014, http://www.epw.in/journal/2014/12/commentary/infirmities-nsso-data-nagal...
ARTICLES IN POPULAR MEDIA
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘One foot in the city, one in the village: India’s urban poor and their rural bonds’, South Asia @ LSE, May 26, 2020, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2020/05/26/one-foot-in-the-city-one-in...
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Counting urban India’, East Asia Forum, May 14, 2020, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/05/14/counting-urban-india/
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Politics should not meddle with our official statistics’, Livemint, November 19, 2019. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/politics-should-not-meddle...
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Data delays are denying India access to good policy’, East Asia Forum, February 10, 2018. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/02/10/data-delays-are-denying-india-a...
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Statistical mirage: Bad data to fail governance’, Deccan Herald, June 03, 2015. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/481244/statistical-mirage-bad-data-f...
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Errors in ST data unattended for decades’, Deccan Herald, May 05, 2015. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/475873/errors-st-data-unattended-dec...
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘Number games in Nagaland’, The Hindu, July 12, 2012. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3628502.ece
(with Vikas Kumar), ‘How reliable is India’s official statistics’, East Asia Forum, April 06, 2012. http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/04/06/nagaland-s-demographic-somersaul...
(with Nilabja Ghosh), ‘Little reason to comfort over foodgrains output estimates’, Business Line, February 22, 2011. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/article1477784.ece
(with Anindya Sengupta), ‘Let’s do the maths on social justice’, The Indian Express, April 20, 2007. http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/28807/
Humanities and Social Sciences
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