In India, a complex and nested set of rules and laws, each reinforcing the other, govern the issues of when and how boundaries of electoral constituencies (for national and state legislatures) have to be drawn or redrawn. The complexity largely stems from the involvement of multiple institutions in framing rules underpinning readjustment of boundaries of electoral constituencies. While the Constitution of India lays down the ground rules, the Parliament prescribes the practical details of delimitation. Furthermore, there is the Delimitation Commission (DC) that prepares the finer methodological details to be followed while demarcating the boundaries of electoral constituencies...