UCLA PhD student leads effort to digitize India's district handbooks with per-city trade data
paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-09
Paul Novosad's thread notes that the District Census Handbooks digitization project is run by UCLA PhD student Arun Ramesh together with @arysriv. The goal is to make handbook content from 1951 onward publicly available nationwide, including import-export tables for every city in India; the thread includes a scanned 1969 trade, commerce, industry and banking statement as an example.
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