Development Studies


Regulating Agricultural Markets in India: A Smallholder Perspective

Sukhpal Singh
2023 | Paperback | 580

Finding My Self: A Life in Education and Activism

Chand Kishore Saint
2023 | Paperback | 785

Wives and Widows at Work: Women’s Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now

Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty, With a Foreword by Samita Sen
2023 | Paperback | 1290

India's Greenfield Urban Future: The Politics of Land, Planning and Infrastructure

Ashima Sood and Loraine Kennedy
2023 | Paperback | 1025

Un/Common Schooling: Educational Experiments in Twentieth-Century India

Edited by Janaki Nair
2022 | Paperback | 1145

The Struggle for Narmada: An Oral History of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, by Adivasi Leaders Kes.......

Nandini Oza, Translated from the original Marathi by Suhas Paranjape and Swatija Manorama With a Foreword by Indira Chowdhury
2022 | Paperback | 915

Agrarian Change in India

Surinder S. Jodhka
2022 | Paperback

Development: Experiences, Insights and Introspection

Vipin Sharma, With a Foreword by Melissa Leach
2022 | Hardback | 955

Urban Housing, Livelihoods and Environmental Challenges in Emerging Economies

Rajesh Bhattacharya and Annapurna Shaw
2021 | Paperback

Making Development Happen: Transformational Change in Rural India, Vol. II

K. Seeta Prabhu and S. Parasuraman
2021 | Hardback

Tamil Migrants: A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis

S. Irudaya Rajan, Bernard D’Sami, Samuel Asir Raj, and P. Sivakumar
2021 | Hardback | 1315

The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village

L. N. Venkataraman
2021 | Paperback | 780

Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (Second Edition)

Samarendra Das and Felix Padel
2020 | Paperback | 1975

The (Un)governable City: Productive Failure in the Making of Colonial Delhi, 1858–1911

Raghav Kishore
2020 | Hardback | 1170

Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

Sheetal Chhabria
2020 | Paperback | 1230

Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India

Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra
2020 | Paperback | 1140

Striving for Equity: Healthcare in Sri Lanka from Independence to the Millennium, 1948–2000

Margaret Jones
2020 | Hardback

The Politics of Poverty Reduction in India: The UPA Government, 2004 to 2014

James Chiriyankandath, Diego Maiorano, James Manor, Louise Tillin
2020 | Paperback | 900

Nature Conservation in the New Economy: People, Wildlife and the Law in India

Ghazala Shahabuddin, K. Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.)
2019 | Hardback | 1435

Gender and Education

Vimala Ramachandran, Kameshwari Jandhyala
2019 | Paperback | 1110

People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism

Sarasij Majumder
2019 | Hardback | 1170

Thinking Gender, Doing Gender: Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today

Uma Chakravarti (Ed.)
2018 | Paperback | 1230

Conservation from the Margins

Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho (Eds.)
2018 | Hardback | 1590

Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India

Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar (Eds.)
2018 | Hardback | 1530

The Past of the Outcaste: Readings in Dalit History

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yagati Chinna Rao
2018 | Paperback | 1615

The Right to Food Debates: Social Protection for Food Security in India

Harsh Mander, Ashwin Parulkar and Ankita Aggarwal
2018 | Hardback | 1980

Youth Migration in Emerging India: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

S. Irudaya Rajan and P. Sivakumar
2018 | Hardback | 1435

Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior

Jothibai Pariyadath, Translated from the original Malayalam by Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Sreejith Varma
2018 | Hardback | 915

India in Nuclear Asia: Evolution of Regional Forces, Perceptions, and Policies

Yogesh Joshi and Frank O’Donnell
2018 | Hardback | 1380

Macroeconomics of the Black Economy

Saumen Chattopadhyay
2018 | Hardback | 1380

International Trade and Industrial Development in India: Emerging Trends, Patterns and Issues

C. Veeramani and R. Nagaraj
2018 | Paperback | 1380

Migrants and the Neoliberal City

Ranabir Samaddar
2018 | Hardback | 1860

Industrial Relations in India: Towards a New Socio-Political Approach

V. Janardhan
2018 | Paperback | 955

Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Nasir Uddin (Ed.)
2017 | Hardback | 1560

Dalit Studies

Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana (Eds.)
2017 | Paperback | 595

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India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities

Udaya S. Mishra and S. Irudaya Rajan (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 1435

Contested Hierarchies, Persisting Influence: Caste and Power in Twenty-first Century India

Surinder S. Jodhka and James Manor (Eds.)
2017 | Hardback | 2010

Poverty Matters: Covering Deprivation in India

K. Nagaraj with Nalini Rajan
2017 | Hardback | 1345

Decentralisation, Governance and Development: An Indian Perspective

Pranab Kumar Das (ed.), with a Foreword by Dilip Mookherjee
2017 | Hardback | 1740

Economic Growth in India and its Many Dimensions

Arup Mitra
2017 | Hardback | 1740

Hastening Slowly: India’s Industrial Growth in the Era of Economic Reforms

Suresh Babu
2017 | Hardback | 1410

Sense And Solidarity - Jholawala Economics for Everyone

Jean Drèze
2017 | Hardback | 795

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Labour State And Society In Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach

Jonathan Pattenden
2017 | Hardback | 850

Beyond Caste - Identity and Power in South Asia: Past and Present

Sumit Guha
2017 | Paperback | 595

Including the Socially Excluded: India’s Experience with Caste, Gender and Poverty

Rahul Ramagundam
2017 | Hardback | 1435

FDI in India: History, Policy and the Asian Perspective

Manoj Pant with Deepika Srivastava
2017 | Paperback | 1315

The Past of the Outcaste: Readings in Dalit History

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yagati Chinna Rao (Eds)
2017 | Hardback | 2395

Dalit Studies

Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana (Eds.)
2016 | Hardback | 895

Thinking Gender, Doing Gender: Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today

Uma Chakravarti (Ed.)
2016 | Hardback | 1595

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Life, Emergent: The Social in the Afterlives of Violence

Yasmeen Arif
2016 | Hardback | 1560

In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

Gautam Bhan
2016 | Paperback | 780

International Trade and Industrial Development in India: Emerging Trends, Patterns and Issues

C. Veeramani and R. Nagaraj
2016 | Hardback | 1950

Participation at the Crossroads: Decentralisation and Water Politics in West Bengal

Bhaskar Chakrabarti
2016 | Hardback | 1380

Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in Twentieth-century India

Niels Brimnes
2016 | Hardback | 1970

Industrial Relations in India: Towards a New Socio-Political Approach

V. Janardhan
2016 | Hardback | 1345

Social Policy

Jean Drèze
2016 | Paperback | 1435

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In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

Gautam Bhan
2016 | Hardback | 1615

Foundations of Human Development: A Life Span Approach

Asha Singh (Ed.)
2015 | Paperback | 470

Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance

Roma Chatterji (Ed.)
2015 | Hardback | 2460

The Reflective Teacher: Case Studies of Action Research

Neeraja Raghavan
2015 | Paperback | 635

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia: Past and

Sumit Guha
2015 | Hardback | 795

Readings on Dalit Identity: History, Literature and Religion

Swaraj Basu
2015 | Hardback | 995

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Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values

Rajeswari S. Raina
2015 | Hardback | 1560

India’s First Democratic Revolution: Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa

Parag D. Parobo
2015 | Hardback

Pipe Politics, Contested Waters : Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

Lisa Björkman
2015 | Hardback | 1780

A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia

Smriti Srinivas
2015 | Hardback | 1710

Development, Decentralisation and Democracy

Ash Narain Roy and George Mathew
2015 | Hardback | 1740

Women Survivors of Violence: Genesis and Growth of a State Support System

Anjali Dave
2015 | Hardback | 1195

Economic Growth and its Distribution in India

Pulapre Balakrishnan (Ed.)
2015 | Paperback | 1530

Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations : Two Centuries of Power and Protest

Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian
2015 | Hardback | 1710

FDI in India: History, Policy and the Asian Perspective

Manoj Pant with Deepika Srivastava
2015 | Hardback | 1615

Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalising World

Ravinder Kaur and Rajni Palriwala (Eds.)
2014 | Hardback | 2250

Neoliberalism and Water: Complicating the Story of ‘Reforms’ in Maharashtra

Priya Sangameswaran
2014 | Hardback | 1860

Decolonisation, Development and Disease: A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka

Kalinga Tudor Silva
2014 | Hardback | 1635

Traversing Bihar : The Politics of Development and Social Justice

Manish K. Jha and Pushpendra
2014 | Hardback | 2010

Integration of the Indian States

V. P. Menon
2014 | Paperback | 2035

The Socio-Cultural Context of Water: Study of a Gujarat Village

Farhat Naz
2014 | Hardback | 1680

Silver Lining: Insights into Gujarat

Jayanti S. Ravi
2014 | Paperback | 580

Development Communication: Contexts for the Twenty-first Century

Dipankar Sinha
2013 | Paperback | 605

Global Issues, Local Contexts: The Rabi Das of West Bengal

Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
2013 | Paperback | 1530

Development on Trial: Shrinking Space for the Periphery

Sunanda Sen & Anjan Chakrabarti
2013 | Hardback | 2155

The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age U.S. Power

Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, Manu Vimalassery (Eds.)
2013 | Hardback | 2275

Higher Education in India: In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak (Ed.)
2013 | Paperback | 1560

Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism

Charu Gupta (Ed.)
2012 | Hardback

Industry, Labour and Society

Sharit Bhowmik
2012 | Paperback | 625

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Hindu Widow Marriage: A Complete Translation, with an Introduction and Critical Notes by Brian .......

Isharchandra Vidyasagar
2012 | Hardback | 795

MGNREGA Sameeksha: An Anthology of Research Studies on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ.......

Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2012 | Paperback | 650

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From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society

Asoka Kumar Sen
2012 | Hardback | 1860

Middle-Class Moralities: Everyday Struggle over Belonging and Prestige in India

Minna Saavala
2012 | Paperback | 650

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Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India

Howard Spodek
2012 | Hardback | 2090

Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
2012 | Paperback | 1150

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India After the Global Crisis

Shankar Acharya
2012 | Hardback | 1380

The Imaginary Institution of India: Politics and Ideas

Sudipta Kaviraj
2012 | Paperback | 695

Kerala’s Gulf Connection, 1998–2011: Economic and Social Impact of Migration

K. C. Zachariah & S. Irudaya Rajan
2012 | Hardback | 1950

Decentralisation and Local Governments: The Indian Experience

T. R. Raghunandan
2012 | Paperback | 1380

History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue

C. A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock (Eds.)
2012 | Paperback | 1225

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School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives

Christine Sleeter, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Arvind K. Mishra and Sanjay Kumar (Eds.)
2012 | Hardback | 2220

Nature, Environment and Society: Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India

Nicolas Lainé and T. B. Subba (Eds.)
2012 | Hardback | 1560

Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape

Felix Padel
2011 | Paperback | 1740

Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support: Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India

Shalini Grover
2011 | Hardback | 595

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The Politics of Sanitation in India: Cities, Services and the State

Susan E. Chaplin
2011 | Hardback | 1205

The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation

Lyla Mehta
2011 | Hardback | 840

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Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 1820-1932

Sanjukta Das Gupta
2011 | Hardback

Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis

Karen Bakker
2011 | Hardback | 1920

Bridging Partition: People's Initiatives for Peace between India and Pakistan

Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian with Kamla Bhasin, A H Nayyar and Mohammad Tahseen (Eds.)
2010 | Paperback | 875

Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape

Felix Padel
2010 | Hardback | 950

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Mumbai: Political Economy of Crime and Space

Abdul Shaban
2010 | Hardback | 730

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Windows of Opportunity: Memoirs of an Economic Advisor

K. S. Krishnaswamy
2010 | Hardback | 1050

Public Administration in the Globalisation Era: The New Public Management Perspective

Uma Medury
2010 | Paperback | 570

Water and Development: Forging Green Communities for Watersheds

Arun de Souza
2010 | Hardback | 1825

Education, Unemployment and Masculinities in India

Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
2010 | Hardback | 850

China After 1978: Craters on the Moon

Economic and Political Weekly
2010 | Paperback | 870

The Secret of Childhood

Maria Montessori
2009 | Hardback | 935

The Secret of Childhood

Maria Montessori
2009 | Paperback | 525

Post-Reform Development In Asia - Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Mandira Sanyal and Shahina Amin (Eds.)
2009 | Hardback | 895

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Diasporas and Development

Barbara J. Merz, Lincoln C. Chen and Peter F. Geithner
2009 | Paperback | 625

Disability And society: A Reader

Renu Addlakha , Stuart Blume, Patrick J. Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (Eds.)
2009 | Paperback | 1950

From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the West

Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones, Helen Sweet (Eds.)
2009 | Hardback | 2155

Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local

Ajit K. Mohanty, Minati Panda, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Eds.)
2009 | Paperback | 1845

Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation

Soumhya Venkatesan
2009 | Hardback | 1450

Uneven Economic Development

José Antonio Ocampo and Rob Vos
2008 | Paperback | 950

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Ageing and Development

Rob Vos, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Ana Luiza Cortez
2008 | Paperback | 1435

Partners in Development: India and Switzerland

Richard Gerster
2008 | Hardback | 450

Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization

Dor Bahadur Bista
2008 | Paperback | 715

Indian Cities in Transition

Annapurna Shaw (Ed.)
2007 | Hardback | 2340

Kerala: The Paradoxes of Public Action and Development

Joseph Tharamangalam (Ed.)
2006 | Paperback | 765

Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in the last Quarter of the Twentieth Century

Nirmala Banerjee and Sugata Marjit (Eds.)
2005 | Hardback | 1740

Caste and Democratic Politics in India

Ghanshyam Shah (Ed.)
2004 | Paperback | 695

Tamil Nadu Human Development Report


2003 | Paperback | 630

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Caste and Democratic Politics in India

Ghanshyam Shah (Ed.)
2002 | Hardback | 695

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Sikkim Human Development Report 2001

Mahendra P. Lama
2001 | Paperback | 595

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Understanding Biodiversity: Life, Sustainability and Equity

Ashish Kothari
1997 | Paperback | 270

The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power

Wolfang Sachs
1997 | Hardback | 840

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Environmental Consciousness and Urban Planning

M. N. Buch
1993 | Paperback | 75

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