I:
The Political Economy of Industry, Labor and Trade
Democracy
and the Current Economic Transformation
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, and
Director of the Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta
Economic
Liberalization and its Political Effects on Industry, Business and Political
Parties
Aseema Sinha, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
The
Politics of India‘s Special Economic Zones
Rob Jenkins, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, London
II:
Social Class Dynamics
Cities
and the new ‘middle’ classes
John Harriss, Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
Urban class dynamics
and the poor
Nandini Gooptu, University Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Oxford University
Political
Economy of Agrarian Distress in India Since the 1990s
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Assistant Professor of Economics, Queen’s
College, City University of New York
III:
The Political Economy of the State-Society Relations
Public finance
Rathin Roy, Public Resource Management Advisor, Bureau for. Development
Policy, UNDP, New York
Shifts
in India‘s Welfare Regime: Targeting, Privatisation and the ‘Great
Transformation’
Jos Mooij, Senior Lecturer Public Policy and Management, Institute
of Social Studies
Patterns
of Wealth Distribution in India During the Period of Reforms
Arjun Jayadev, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston
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IV: Elections,
Parties and the Party System
The
Congress Party and the ‘Great Transformation’
James Manor, Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies, Institute
of Commonwealth Studies
Hindu nationalist
forces
Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies, University of Manitoba
The Paradoxes
of the Third Force
Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School
for Social Research
V: A New
Federalism?
Geographies
of Federalism in Post-Reform India
Stuart Corbridge, Professor of Human Geography, LSE
The Transformation of Citizenship in the 1990s
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Making
Citizens from Below: The Prospects and Challenges of Decentralization
in India
Patrick Heller, Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University
VI: Political
Movements, Old and New, and the Media
New
social movements
Ronald Herring, Professor of Government, Cornell University
Gender politics
Raka Ray, Associate Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asian
Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The media
Arvind Rajagopal, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication,
NYU
VII:
Conceptions of India and its Place in the World
Understanding
India's Foreign Policy Shift
Achin Vanaik, Professor of International Relations and Global Politics,
Delhi University
India’s
changing economic relations
Sanjay Reddy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College and
SIPA, Columbia University
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