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Chhattisgarh's 'No-Go Area' for Coal Mining Faces the Prospect of Being Opened Up The Wire, 5 October 2018 By Debayan Gupta and Bipasha Paul	There are no short cuts to building State capacity Hindustan Times, 5 October 2018 By Yamini Aiyar
The Beijing backlash begins The Japan Times, 4 October 2018 By Brahma Chellaney	The creamy layer of social justice The Hindu, 4 October 2018 By D Shyam Babu
How not to engage with Pakistan Hindu BusinessLine, 3 October 2018 By G Parthasarathy	No easy escape from Afghan war for Trump Nikkei Asian Review, 2 October 2018 By Brahma Chellaney
Ambitious but short on transparency The Washington Times, 1 October 2018 By Brahma Chellaney	In Aadhaar, Supreme Court did not probe if it is a tool to track citizens The Print, 30 September 2018 By Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan
The United States’ Divide and the Future of the World Order Economic & Political Weekly, 29 September 2018 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	[Podcast] Yamini Aiyar: Creating an Indian Bureaucracy for the 21st Century The Global Future Podcast, 29 September 2018 By Yamini Aiyar

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Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)

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Bharat Karnad

Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Laws, Processes, Outcomes, and lmplications for Political Representation

Edited by

Mohd. Sanjeer Alam and K C Sivaramakrishnan

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

Edited by

David M Malone, C Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan

India-China Borderlands: Conversations beyond the Centre

By

Nimmi Kurian

Exploding Aspirations

By

Rajiv Kumar

Governance of Megacities: Fractured Thinking, Fragmented Setup

By

K C Sivaramakrishnan

Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs

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Devesh Kapur, D Shyam Babu, and Chandra Bhan Prasad

Power, Policy, and Protest: The Politics of India's Special Economic Zones

Edited by

Rob Jenkins, Loraine Kennedy, and Partha Mukhopadhyay

The Accidental Prime Minister

By

Sanjaya Baru

Post Haste - Quintessential India

By

B G Verghese

1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh

By

Srinath Raghavan

Water: Asia's New Battleground

By

Brahma Chellaney

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Out-of-School Children: Some Insights on What We Know and What We Do Not Economic and Political Weekly, 9 December 2017 By Kiran Bhatty, Radhika Saraf, and Vrinda Gupta	On the Importance of Triangulating Data Sets to Examine Indians on the Move Economic and Political Weekly, 25 November 2017 By S Chandrasekhar, Mukta Naik, and Shamindra Nath Roy
The Legality of Downgrading Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement: Lessons from the US Disengagement Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 November 2017 By Lavanya Rajamani and Jutta Brunnée	Foreign Policy and Sea Power: India’s Maritime Role Flux IDSA Journal of Defence Studies, 31 October 2017 By Zorawar Daulet Singh
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 42:55-75, 11 October 2017 By Mark Vardy, Michael Oppenheimer, Navroz K Dubash, Jessica O'Reilly, and Dale Jamieson	Review: Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World, by Naho Mirumachi Progress in Development Studies, 5 October 2017 By Srinivas Chokkakula
Review: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai, by Lisa Björkman Journal of South Asian Studies, 5 October 2017 By Srinivas Chokkakula	India and China: A Stubborn Relationship Economic and Political Weekly, 30 September 2017 By Zorawar Daulet Singh
Why Do Institutions Shy Away from Action? 5 August 2017 By Meenakshi Kapoor	Locating the Belt and Road in China’s Broader Policy Shifts Economic and Political Weekly, 24 June 2017 By Zorawar Daulet Singh

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Subregionalising IR: Bringing the Borderlands Back In

By

Nimmi Kurian

Housing, Spatial-Mobility and Paid Domestic Work in Millennial Delhi: Narratives of Women Domestic Workers

By

Sonal Sharma

Unpacking the “Unauthorized Colony”: Policy, Planning and Everyday Lives

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Shahana Sheikh and Subhadra Banda

International Law and the Constitutional Schema

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Public Participation in Indian Environmental Law

By

Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh

Locating Indian Constitutionalism

By

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation

By

Navroz K Dubash

Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Thinking Sub-regionally about Sustainable Development

By

Nimmi Kurian

BCIM Sustainability Dialogue(s): A Network Approach to Capacity Building

By

Nimmi Kurian

Energizing India-Japan Cooperation on Clean Energy and Climate Change

By

Shyam Saran and Radhika Khosla

“Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: India’s Constitution and its Supreme Court”, in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India

By

Ananth Padmanabhan

Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change

By

Navroz K Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani

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Beyond 2019: Why Sanitation Policy Needs to Look Past Toilets 4 March 2018 By Shubhagato Dasgupta, Prashant Arya	Budget Brief 2018-19: Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Prerananandita Baisnab
Budget Brief 2018-19: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Parma Chakravartti	Budget Brief 2018-19: National Health Mission (NHM) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Prerananandita Baisnab
Budget Brief 2018-19: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) 3 February 2018 By Sahithya Venkatesan, Avani Kapur	Budget Brief 2018-19: Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Mridusmita Bordoloi, Ritwik Shukla
Budget Brief 2018-19: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Mridusmita Bordoloi, Ritwik Shukla	Budget Brief 2018-19: Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS) 3 February 2018 By Devashish Deshpande, Avani Kapur
Budget Brief 2018-19:Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin (SBM-G) 3 February 2018 By Avani Kapur, Devashish Deshpande	Budget Brief 2018-19: Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U) 3 February 2018 By Devashish Deshpande, Avani Kapur

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Political Economy Of Distribution Reforms In Indian Electricity 29 August 2016 By Ashwini K Swain	Mapping Dilutions in a Central Law 7 August 2016 By Kanchi Kohli and Debayan Gupta
Cabal City: Regime Theory and Indian Urbanization 24 June 2016 By Patrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay, and Michael Walton	Performing Poriborton 19 May 2016 By Bhanu Joshi, Ashish Ranjan, and Neelanjan Sircar
Does Government’s Monitoring of Schools Work? 16 May 2016 By Kiran Bhatty and Radhika Saraf	Understanding the Election in Assam (Part 2) 13 May 2016 By Bhanu Joshi, Ashish Ranjan, and Neelanjan Sircar
Understanding the Election in Assam (Part 1) 19 April 2016 By Ashish Ranjan, Bhanu Joshi, and Neelanjan Sircar	Eighth Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture Cultural Diplomacy: Leveraging India’s Soft Power 18 April 2016 By Shyam Saran
Assessing Party Performance and Alliance Dynamics in the 2015 Bihar Election 28 March 2016 By Neelanjan Sircar and Gilles Verniers	Impact of China Slowdown on India 24 February 2016 By Geetima Das Krishna and Sakshi Bhardwaj

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Public Accountability and Governance in Education	Right to Sanitation	Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia
Scale, Institutions and Networks in Transboundary Waters (SINet waters)	Scaling City Institutions For India: Sanitation	Scaling-Up Urban Healthcare Services in India
Special Economic Zones	State Action Plans on Climate Change in India	Strengthen and Harmonise Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC)
Study on the 74th Amendment	Sub Group on "National Water Framework Law" for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-2017)	Sub-group on Legal Issues related to groundwater management and regulation, including the strengthening of the groundwater regulatory authorities at the Centre and States
Subaltern Urbanisation in India (SUBURBIN)	The role of small cities in shaping youth employment outcomes in India and Indonesia	The SARCist
The Technology and Society Initiative	Toward a Robust Development Focused INDC for India	Understanding Metropolitan Homelessness
Urban Electoral Geography	Urban Transformations	Water Policy, Law, and Conflict