Author Contributions:
Siddhesh Zadey: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal Analysis, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Project Administration.
Emily R. Smith: Writing - Review & Editing.
Catherine A. Staton: Writing - Review & Editing.
Tamara N. Fitzgerald: Writing - Review & Editing.
Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci: Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing - Review & Editing.
Acknowledgments: None
Funding: None
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable since the study involves analysis of publicly available aggregate data.
Consent for publication: Not applicable
Availability of data and materials: Data used in the manuscript is available at the NDAP - datasets 7067 (https://ndap.niti.gov.in/dataset/7067) and 7068 (https://ndap.niti.gov.in/dataset/7068) and Git repository for shape files (https://github.com/justinelliotmeyers/India_Official_Boundaries_2019) platforms.