India's digitized district handbooks reveal 371 villages submerged with little mention of residents
paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-09
A fragment of Paul Novosad's thread on digitizing India's District Census Handbooks: the narrative sections capture fascinating slices of economic and cultural life, such as the Gobind Sagar reservoir that submerged 371 villages (256 in Bilaspur district alone) with extensive discussion of economic benefits but little mention of prior residents. Once complete, content from 1951 onward will be publicly available nationwide, including import-export tables for every city in India.
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