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The present publication, Administration Atlas of India 2011 contains the present administrative set up in the country as extisted on 31st December, 2010. There are 35 States/ Union Territories in the country. No new State or Union Territory has been formed since 2001. However, there have been significant changes in the number of Districts since the last Census. 47 new District have been created during this decade taking the total number of Districts from 593 to 640. A map has been specially added to depict the newly created Districts during the period from Census 2001 to 2011. A list of newly created Districts and the Districts from where these Districts have been carved out is also given in the table. An added feature is that the name of teh District and the Sub-District are written within the District and Sub-District boundary in the maps for instant view. A separate list is also given in the left side of the State map for better clarity. Out of the forty seven newly created Districts in the country, majority of the Districts are in the State of Jammu & Kashmir (8) followed by Jharkhand (6), Madhya Pradesh (5), Assam (4), Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnatakaa and Nagaland (3 each), Two Districts each are created in State of Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh. The States where only one District is created are Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Island and Bihar.

The Present volume also contains fifteen maps showing the administrative divisions of India as existed from 1872 to 2011. The first map in the series depicts the administrative boundaries that existed at the time of the 1872 census. The other map in the series portray the boundaries in the respective Censuses. An attempt has been made to show the changes in the administrative boundaries during each decade separately beginning from the Census of 1951. Besides the maps of the respective decades, the names of administrative units from 1872 to 2011 are also presented.