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Numbers as Political Allies analyses the state sponsored headcounts in Jammu and Kashmir as public goods, collective self-portraits, and symbols of modernity. It explores how census statistics are impacted by their administrative, legal and political-economic contexts. The book guides the reader through the entire lifecycle of headcounts from the administrative manoeuvring at the preparatory stage to the partisan use of data in policymaking and public debates. Using the case of Jammu and Kashmir, it explains how our ability to examine data quality is limited by the paucity of metadata and estimates the magnitudes of coverage and content errors in the census process. It argues that Jammu and Kashmir's data deficit is shaped by and shapes ethno-regional, communal, and scalar contests across different levels of governance and compares its census experience with other states to discuss possible reforms to enhance public trust in the census.

Arunabh Ghosh, Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020, 340 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-17947-6.

The social innovation inclines to an emphasis on 'systems and processes of change in social relations' and 'innovation is a new idea, product or process that addresses social and environmental challenges and their needs'. It is newly growing up as a field of practice that is done by people. It has occurred from the broader field of innovation studies. In this article, the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been taken as a case of social innovation, which helps to increase the productivity of rice and enhance the income of the farmers. The literature related to SRI suggested that the technique is sustainable and innovative because of the less use of inputs and changes in some set of principles (i.e., planting, fertilizer, water and seeds) whereas increasing output in terms of production and productivity of the crop. In this sense, aim of the article is to evaluate the impact of the SRI technique within the framework of social innovation in Patna district, Bihar, India. In a wider context, the question is not about whether it is intensifying or not, rather emphasis should be on how farmers deal with changing environmental and socio-economic factors. Moreover, there is a need to delve deeper into implantation strategies in the local context and evaluate their impact in terms of opportunities and constraints during adaptation. In addition to this, an exploratory research design was followed to study SRI. Criterion and expert sampling were employed to select the farmers, and data were collected by a personal interview method with the help of a structured schedule. However, the data indicate the production and productivity of paddy are increased through SRI, but variation exists among different blocks of the district. It is clearly evident from the data that nearly 42 per cent of farmers from all blocks have witnessed an increase in food sufficiency. In the case of income due to the sale of excess produce is 57 per cent.

There is a growing awareness in India of the need to nurture indigenous international relations (IR) traditions. India's IR community, though, has only a cursory familiarity with indigenous traditions. Most Indian IR scholars and practitioners invoke indigenous traditions in a superficial manner. Non-English nouns are superimposed on full-fledged analyses, which creates an illusory bond with the tradition, rather than being an organic part of the argument. Often such nouns are either not found in the original sources referred to or appear in a very different context in those sources. Hurried attempts to indigenise Indian IR thought and practice result in a clumsy repackaging of contemporary ideas as 'traditional Indian.' It is only through empirically and theoretically sound protocols of recovery/re-engagement that the IR community can learn to think in and through the Indian tradition, and adapt the tradition to speak to contemporary challenges. Presently, without the scaffolding of heterodox Western IR traditions and Western scholarship on pre-modern Indian languages and knowledge traditions, India's Anglophonic IR community cannot even critique the mainstream paradigm of the West. As a result, despite India's long history of reflection on interstate relations, Western assessments and theorizations continue to dominate the modern scholarship on India's IR, with Indians mostly reacting to foreign assessments.

In India both the central and state governments subsidise the price of a wide range of products with the expressed intention of making them affordable for the poor. Rice, wheat, pulses, sugar, kerosene, LPG, naphtha, water, electricity, diesel, fertilizer, iron ore, railways-these are just a few of the commodities and services that the government subsidises.After getting experience from the whole world, Government of India has launched JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) Trinity. Its's motive is to link Jan Dhan Accounts, Mobile numbers and Aadhaar number of Indians to plug the leakages of government subsidies and fully utilization of available resources. Now a person can transfer funds, check balance through a normal phone only due to launching new technology by National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI). For the availability of Mobile Banking for the poor people through National Unified USSD Platform (NUUP), all banks and mobile companies have come together. Well-being of all the house- holds first, providing the minimum needful to its citizens are guiding principles for any policy to take effect. The financial inclusion measures like Jan Dhan Yojana, Direct Benefit Transfer, Ujjawala, PAHAL, etc have brought the benefits of development to the last mile. Demonetiastion was also a effort to boost the digital payment ecosystem, create less cash less economy and bring transparency in financial transactions.

The Goods and Services Tax is considered as a biggest tax reform since 1947. It seeks to stream line the taxation system so that there is a single tax paid for supply of goods and services. The bill will replace nearly 15 states and federal taxes which is inline with the government focus on cooperative federalism and a mission for unity of Indian economy. The government want to implement GST on 1st April, 2017 and for this efforts are made continuously. The main expectation is that this land mark will go a long way in facilitating ease going business and enabling India to compete with World Trade. GST bill have a far reaching impact on all almost all the aspects in the business organization in the country for example pricing of products and services, supply chain optimization, IT, accounting and tax compliance system. That's why GST bill has been described as a reform measure of unparalleled importance in independent India. The GST bill facilitate "Make In India" by bringing India on single tax platform. It can be said that the real success of GST depends upon the impact on the common Indian consumer. The essence of GST is that all goods and services be taxed at moderate rate. Single tax for one India proves to be a game changer in a positive way and proves to be beneficial not only to the common man, but to the country as a whole.