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Book Alert! @pstaniland.bsky.social and I have a new Cambridge Element out now — and free to download through May 18. It's the result of nine years of digging through historic survey data on how the Indian public thinks about major powers. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

One really cool part is the data we collected. We recovered Cold War-era USIA-funded polls of Indian public opinion that had been sitting in punchcard format at the Roper Center. We wrote code to parse them and are sharing it (github.com/milliff/leni...) so other researchers can build on our work.

There's a lot more material in these surveys for anyone working on South Asia. @pstaniland.bsky.social and a team of RAs even built an index of all ~1,500 foreign policy questions from decades of physical IIOPO reports. You can find that index in the replication material, too.