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Rural India reels under economic slump Hindustan Times, 3 February 2020 By Avani Kapur, Meghna Paul, and Vastav Irava	Love and Resistance in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh The Daily Star, 3 February 2020 By Fathima M and Sharonee Dasgupta
Deepen the partnership with the European Union Hindustan Times, 3 February 2020 By Shyam Saran	Does Budget do enough for aspirational India? Deccan Herald, 2 February 2020 By Avani Kapur
The national security threat from within Hindustan Times, 2 February 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	The budget does not address the crisis of demand Hindustan Times, 1 February 2020 By Yamini Aiyar
Will children get attention in budget? Hindustan Times, 31 January 2020 By Avani Kapur and Mridusmita Bordoloi	Is land a constraint for Modi govt’s ambitious expansion programme for renewables? Financial Express , 31 January 2020 By Eswaran Somanathan
India can’t continue to overlook Trump’s diplomatic slights. Time to redefine ties sensibly ThePrint, 27 January 2020 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Imran Khan stumbles on Kashmir ambitions The Hindu Business Line, 27 January 2020 By G Parthasarathy

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India as a Pioneer of Innovation

Edited by

Harbir Singh, Ananth Padmanabhan, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Water Law in India – An Introduction to Legal Instruments (2nd Edition)

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century

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Shyam Saran

A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and Secularity in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa

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Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, and Shylashri Shankar

Dispossessed: Stories from India's Margins

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Amod Shah, Anhad Imaan, Annie Baxi, Ashwin Parulkar, Rhea John, Saba Sharma, and Shikha Sethia

The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru

Edited by

Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland, and Einar Braathen

Rethinking Public Institutions in India

Edited by

Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav

International Climate Change Law

By

Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Lavanya Rajamani

Subaltern Urbanisation in India

Edited by

Eric Denis and Marie-Hélène Zérah

Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education

Edited by

Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta

India and the World: Essays on Geoeconomics and Foreign Policy

Communities And Legal Action

By

Kanchi Kohli

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India’s Civilisational Identity and the World Order Economic & Political Weekly, 28 September 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Negotiation, mediation and subjectivities: how migrant renters experience informal rentals in Gurgaon’s urban villages Radical Housing Journal, 10 September 2019 By Mukta Naik
The future of the Congress party 22 August 2019 By Rahul Verma, Zoya Hasan, and Yamini Aiyar	Making sense of the 2019 election 22 August 2019 By Yamini Aiyar, Yogendra Yadav, G Sampath, Vandita Mishra, Shekhar Gupta, and Tariq Thachil
Winning back the rural heartland Seminar Magazine, 20 August 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar and Roshan Kishore	The problem Seminar Magazine, 1 August 2019 By Rahul Verma
The Disruptive Politics of Renewable Energy The India Forum, 5 July 2019 By Navroz K Dubash, Ashwini K Swain, and Parth Bhatia	Rethinking India’s Approach to China’s Belt and Road Initiative Economic & Political Weekly, 29 June 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh
Integrating Human Rights in the Paris Climate Architecture: Contest, Context, and Consequence Climate Law (Volume 9, Issue 3), 26 June 2019 By Lavanya Rajamani	Decentralizing administration Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Deepak Sanan

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Maximum Schemes, Minimum Welfare

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Yamini Aiyar

Procedural Environmental Rights in Indian Law

By

Shibani Ghosh

Public Trust Doctrine in Indian Environmental Law

By

Shibani Ghosh

The Precautionary Principle

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Elections, Exit Polls and the Electronic Media

By

Rahul Verma

The Environment

By

Shibani Ghosh

Building Cities: A View from India

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Radhika Khosla

Only 'Good People', Please: Residential Segregation in Urbanising India

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Trina Vithayathil, Gayatri Singh, and Kanhu Charan Pradhan

Subaltern Urbanisation Revisited

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Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie-Hélène Zérah, and Eric Denis

Moving from Principle to Practice

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Partha Mukhopadhyay and Mukta Naik

Transforming Reforms: Hype, Hostility, and Placation in Andhra Pradesh’s Power Sector Reforms

By

Ashwini K Swain

Poverty in the Midst of Abundance: Repressive Populism, Bureaucratization, and Supply-side Bias in Madhya Pradesh’s Power Sector

By

Ashwini K Swain

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Mid-Day Meal Scheme 3 February 2020 By Sharad Pandey, Avani Kapur	Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban 3 February 2020 By Avani Kapur, Sanjana Malhotra
Child Protection Services 3 February 2020 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur	Perceptions: Understanding On-Site Sanitation System Choices in Large Dense Villages in India 7 January 2020 By Aditya Bhol, Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anindita Mukherjee
Closing the Enforcement Gap: A community led groundtruthing of the expansion of a National Highway Project in Uttara Kannada 31 December 2019	Making the Law Count: Environment justice stories on community paralegal work in India (Version 2) 31 December 2019
Unearthed - Facts of On-Site Sanitation in Urban India 30 December 2019 By Shubhagato Dasgupta, Neha Agarwal, Anindita Mukherjee	Mapping Power: A Collection of Insights on the Political Economy of Electricity in India's States 30 September 2019 By Navroz K Dubash, Sunita S Kale, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Ashwini K Swain, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Hema Ramakrishnan, Jonathan Balls, Kalpana Dixit, Meera Sudhakar, Megha Kaladharan, Rohit Chandra, Siddharth Sareen
Ujjwala 2.0: From Access to Sustained Usage 6 August 2019 By Santosh Harish, Kirk R Smith	Indian Development Cooperation Regains Momentum: 7 Main Takeaways from India’s 2019-20 Union Budget 31 July 2019 By Rani Mullen

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The Election in Karnataka: Caste, Class, and Regional Complexity 14 May 2018 By Pranav Kuttaiah and Neelanjan Sircar	Census towns in India - Current patterns and Future Discourses 1 May 2018 By Shamindra Nath Roy and Kanhu Charan Pradhan
Engines without Drivers: Cities in India’s Growth Story 8 March 2018 By Partha Mukhopadhyay	Officiating Urbanisation: What makes a settlement officially urban in India? 6 January 2018 By Bhanu Joshi and Kanhu Charan Pradhan
Is the BJP in Trouble? Caste, Class, and the Urban-Rural Divide in Gujarat 13 December 2017 By Ashish Ranjan and Neelanjan Sircar	On the importance of triangulating datasets to examine Indians on the move 24 November 2017 By S Chandrasekhar, Mukta Naik, and Shamindra Nath Roy
Elaborating the Paris Agreement: Implementation and Compliance Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions, 10 November 2017 By Lavanya Rajamani	Mapping Dilutions in a Central Law 25 September 2017 By Kanchi Kohli and Debayan Gupta
Comments on Draft National Energy Policy 12 July 2017 By Navroz K Dubash, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Radhika Khosla, Shibani Ghosh, Ankit Bhardwaj, and Swetha Sridhar	From Prior to Post: Legalising environmental violations? 1 July 2017 By Krithika A Dinesh and Kanchi Kohli

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Accountability Initiative	Cities and Climate Change	Clearing the Air: Air Quality Regulation and Governance in India
Community of Research and Practice (CORP) Seminar Series	Conflicts Around Water Use in Rainfed Agriculture	Constitutional Right to Property
Coordination in accessing climate finance	CPR-CSH Urban Workshop	CPR-CWC Dialogue Forum (TREAD Talks)
CPR-TCPD Dialogues on Indian Politics	Energy and Climate Change in Buildings	Environment Regulation of urban construction projects
Environmental Justice Program	Epidemiologically-based mosquito elimination strategies for dengue control	Globalisation in Question
Governance and Public Policy Initiative	India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development	India Infrastructures and Ecologies Program
India – Urban Rural Boundaries and Basic Services (IND-URBBS)	Indian Development Cooperation Research	Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment
Interstate river water cooperation in India	JNNURM	Land Acquisition in India
Land Rights in Scheduled Areas	Land Rights Initiative	Mapping Land Legislation in India
Mapping Power	Metamorphoses - Talking Technology	Missing Middle: Census Towns in India
Multiple Objective based Energy and Climate Policy	Planning Commission, Working Group on Water Governance for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017)	Powering Through a Transition: The Political Economy of India’s Electricity Future
Public Accountability and Governance in Education	Right to Sanitation	Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia
Role of local communities in forest governance: An online course on Forest Rights and Forest Governance	Scale, institutions and Networks II (SINets II)	Scaling City Institutions For India: Sanitation
State Action Plans on Climate Change in India	Strengthen and Harmonise Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC)	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 Jobs Initiative
The role of small cities in shaping youth employment outcomes in India and Indonesia	The Supreme Court and interstate river water disputes	The Tacit Knowledge Urban Research Network (TURN)
The Technology and Society Initiative	Toward a Robust Development Focused INDC for India	TREADS (Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies and Development Studies)
Understanding Metropolitan Homelessness	Water and Federalism	Water Policy, Law, and Conflict