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 :

TCPD - LokDhaba Electoral Data on Indian Elections
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 :

India Rural Facilities Geo-tagged Dataset (PMGSY) : https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/pratapvardhan/770k-geotagged-rural-facilities-in-india-pmgsy
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
Election Rally Tracker Lok Sabha 2019 : https://data.indianexpress.com/rally-tracker/

Datasets on Electoral Violence :

Subnational Electoral Coercion in India (SECI) Data set, 1985-2015
Electoral Contention and Violence (ECAV)
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Justice & Police (Crime) :

Justice Hub (India) : Police, Courts, Jails, Budgets
Justice Budgets (India)
Crime Data of India (1969-2023)
Judicial Data extracted from eCourts (81 million cases) : https://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-data#links

Land Conflict in South Asia :
Land Conflict Watch : https://www.landconflictwatch.org/
Guide to studying Land Conflict : https://gijn.org/resource/guide-investigating-land-conflicts-south-asia/

India Human Development Survey (IHDS) https://ihds.umd.edu/

Agriculture Census India : https://agcensus.da.gov.in/docragc.html

India Data Portal : https://indiadataportal.com/

Crops in India : http://data.icrisat.org/

NITI NCAER States Economic Forum - All Fiscal, Budgetary Data for all States
https://ncaer.org/ncaer-niti-aayog-state-fiscal-and-economic-dashboard/
https://ncaer.org/data-repository/

Bahujan Ambedkarite library from Suraj Yengde :
https://www.surajyengde.com/bahujan-library/

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES)

Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS)

The Database of Political Institutions (DPI)

Eurobarometer (EB)