Areas of Interest
• India
• South Asia in general
Research and Teaching
Political economy of development; Indian politics; political participation and civil society in India; social policy in India and other ‘emerging economies’; institutional theories; agrarian change (especially in South India)
Lower Division teaching:
Introduction to International Studies
Upper Division:
Core Texts in International Studies
Global Problems in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Nationalism, Democracy and development in Modern India
Graduate:
Institutions, Policies and Development
State Building and State Failure
Books
2010 Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses (editor, with Paul Bowles). London: Palgrave MacMillan
2006 Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press
2004 Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries (editor, with Kristian Stokke and Olle Tornquist). London: Palgrave Macmillan (also published in Bahasa Indonesia as Politasi Demokrasi: Politik Lokal Baru. Jakarta: Lembaga Kajian Demokrasi dan Hak Asasi
2001 Depoliticizing Development: the World Bank and Social Capital. New Delhi: LeftWord and London: Anthem Press
2000 Reinventing India: Economic Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (with Stuart Corbridge). Cambridge: Polity Press
1999 Managing Development: Understanding Inter-Organisational Relationships. London: Sage Publications and the Open University (edited, with Tom Hewitt and Dorcas Robinson)
1995 The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development London: Routledge (edited, and with an introduction, with Janet Hunter and Colin Lewis)
1995 The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention London: Pinter (edited, and author of a substantial introduction)
1990 (with K P Kannan and G Rodgers) Urban Labour Market Structure and Job Access in India: a study of Coimbatore (International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva)
1989 Sociology of `Developing Societies': South Asia London: Macmillan (with Hamza Alavi)
1982 Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change. London: Hutchinson
1982 Capitalism and Peasant Farming; Agrarian change and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu. Oxford University Press
Journal Articles
2010 Land, Labour and Caste Politics in Rural Tamil Nadu in the 20th Century: Iruvelpattu (1916-2008), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.45, No.31 (with J.Jeyaranjan and K.Nagaraj)
2009 Drivers of Development Over the Next Thirty Years: Some Speculations, Journal of International Development , 21, 772-775
2009 How Much Space is there for Political Agency in Dependent Economies?. Studies in Comparative International Development 44, 4, pp 435-40
2009 (with Neha Kohli) Notes on the Differing 'States' of Child Undernutrition in Rural India. IDS Bulletin Vol 40, no 4 pp 9-15
2007 Antinomies of Empowerment Economic and Political Weekly, June 30
2006 Middle Class Activism and the Politics of the Informal Working Class: A Perspective on Class Relations and Civil Society in Indian Cities. Critical Asian Studies 38, 4, pps 445-446
2005 Political Participation, Representation and the Urban Poor: findings from research in Delhi Economic and Political Weekly Vol XL No 11, pps 1041-1054
2005 How and why does culture matter? [review article] Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XL No 2, pps 113-11
Book Chapters
2010 ‘Class and Politics’, in, Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta,(Eds), The Oxford Companion to Indian Politics. Delhi: Oxford University Press
2010 ‘Political Change, Political Structure and the Indian State since Independence’, in Paul Brass (Ed) The Handbook of South Asian Politics. London and New York: Routledge
2010 ‘The Continuing Reinvention of India’ (with Stuart Corbridge), in C Sengupta and S Corbridge (Eds) Democracy, Development and Decentralization in India. Delhi: Routledge
2009 Bringing Politics Back Into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement, in T Addison, D Hulme and R Kanbur (eds) Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
2009 ‘Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India’, in Olle Tornquist, Neil Webster and Kristian Stokke (Eds) Rethinking Popular Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
2006 Mighty Promise, Hubris and Recovery: a perspective on the history of development studies. In Uma Kothari (ed) A Critical History of Development Studies. London: Zed Books
2006 Michael Lipton. In David Simon (ed) Key Thinkers in Development. London: Routledge
2005 Social Capital, in, K S Jomo and Ben Fine, eds., The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. London: Zed Books (also in German as ‘Das eingebildete Sozialkapital’ in Peripherie: Zeitschrift fur Politik und Okonomie in der Dritten Welt. Nr 99, 25, September 2005)
2005 (with C J Fuller) Globalizing Hinduism: the ‘Traditional’ Teaching of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Modern Business in Chennai, in J Assayag and C J Fuller (eds), Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below. London: Anthem Press