The Japan Society of Economic Statistics has presented its 2017 Award to Jun-ichi Okabe, Professor, Yokohama National University, for the book he wrote with Aparajita Bakshi, A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry into Village Panchayat Databases, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
The citation describes the book as a “breakthrough” and commends the book as “an advanced example of full-scale international collaborative research” between the Foundation for Agrarian Studies and Professor Okabe.
More about this can be read at FAS blog.