Data used in the papers on the partition of British India will soon be made available on this website. The principal investigators on this project were Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD), Asim Khwaja (Harvard KSG) and Atif Mian (Chicago Booth). Grants from the South Asia Initiative at Harvard made this data collection possible.

Pre-Independence Census data:

1921 - Codebook :: Data

1931 - Codebook :: Data

Post Independence Census data:

1951 - Codebook :: Data

1951 - Codebook :: Data

Data on Agriculture:

1931 - Codebook :: Data

Health Data

1934 - Codebook :: Data