3,755 bilateral treaty records involving India from 1948 to 2026, constructed by the Nested Treaties Database project. The registry was built from materials maintained by India's Ministry of External Affairs and includes historical-state reconstruction for entities like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Accompanying materials include codebooks, audit files, and replication materials.
Use Cases
- Analyze treaty formation and nesting patterns based on the documented bilateral relationships.
- Study institutional development and international cooperation based on the treaty records and historical-state categories.
- Conduct coverage auditing and source validation based on the described correction procedures and validation checks.
Strengths
- 3,755 treaty records provide a substantial foundation for analysis.
- Includes extensive historical-state reconstruction for entities like the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
- Incorporates source correction procedures and validation checks as described.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Treaty materials maintained by the Ministry of External Affairs of India.
- Collection Method
- Constructed with historical-state reconstruction, coverage auditing, and source correction procedures.
- Time Range
- 1948–2026
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-24 14:51:16; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- India (bilateral relationships)