DATASETS
Alembik, Victor, 2023, "Kanhaiya Kumar : Political Speeches (2015-2020)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YLZFMZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
I have collected a large amount of data on the "Council of Ministers" of various Indian states :
Arunachal Pradesh Council of Ministers (1979-2019, Who's Who)
Bihar council of Ministers (up to 2005, Data archive ; 2005-2023, Wikipedia)
Goa Council of Ministers (1990-2023, Assembly Website + Gazette)
Haryana Council of Ministers (1972-2009, Who's Who)
Kerala Council of Ministers (1957-2023, Assembly Website)
Maharashtra Council of Ministers (1960-2023, Wikipedia)
Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers (1950-2023, Who's Who)
Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers (1952-2022, Wikipedia)
Uttarakhand Council of Ministers (2000-2022, Wikipedia)
West Bengal Council of Ministers (1950-2023, Assembly Website)
MLA Attendance & Questions (extracted from ADR Reports) :
Chattisgarh 2013-2018
Delhi 2015-2020
Madhya Pradesh 2013-2018
Mizoram 2013-2018
Rajasthan 2013-2018
Wonderful organisations that have built various databases :
The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG)
Civic Data Lab (India) : Law, Justice, Open Contracting, State Budgets, Finance, Contracting, Urban Development
For any data related to India, I strongly encourage you to check out Poulomi Chakrabarti's website
PRS Legislative Research (India) : Assembly conduct, MLA/MP attendance, Legislative Debates & Questions ; please see my code to extract the data and connect it to the TCPD dataset.
Publicly available datasets :
Ideas of India (Periodicals database)
Indian Ruling Coalitions in State assemblies : https://github.com/eteitelbaum/india-elections-mapapp/blob/main/Data/state_coalitions_raw.csv
Datasets on Electoral Violence :
Subnational Electoral Coercion in India (SECI) Data set, 1985-2015
Justice & Police (Crime) :
Justice Hub (India) : Police, Courts, Jails, Budgets
Justice Budgets (India)