A Cross-Border Dialogue on the Himalayas
Rahul Ranjan Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice Moderator Department of Geography, School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Moderator Rahul…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
Sociological Imagination in Contemporary Geopolitics – Sacnik
Mainstream geopolitics and sociology are strange bedfellows. Global foreign policy or supranational agenda in most of the post-war era was…
A Book Discussion on Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development With Nikhil Menon
Nikhil Menon is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historian of modern…
Keep Out: How India’s Forest Department Defines Its Jurisdiction – Divya Godbole
In March 2023, a Sarus crane that Mohammed Arif Khan from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district had cared for was confiscated…
Dispossession v/s Development – The paradox of ‘Creative Destruction’ – Kirti Koushika
Humans transform through their socioeconomic interactions, eventually altering the environment in which they reside. They make continuous efforts to mould…
A Book Discussion on Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions
A discussion on Bitopi Dutta’s newly published book Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions by Routledge in 2022.…
Issues Of Development and Economy: An Interview with John Harriss
John Harriss is a Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University. He has been a visiting faculty at the London School…
Democracy, Populism and Development: A Conversation with Patrick Heller
Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and International Studies in Brown University.…