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The 2019 State of Forests Report Tells a Distorted Story of India's Trees The Wire, 8 January 2020 By Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon	Soleimani Murder Set to Spiral Out of Control, US Expected to Pressure India Under LEMOA The Citizen , 4 January 2020 By Bharat Karnad
Iran could derail Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy Hindustan Times, 3 January 2020 By Brahma Chellaney	Bracing for the storm India Today, 3 January 2020 By Navroz K Dubash
India's diplomatic space may shrink as govt picks hardline political agenda Business Standard, 2 January 2020 By Shyam Saran	The assertion of Indian federalism gives hope Hindustan Times, 1 January 2020 By Yamini Aiyar
India belongs to all The Tribune, 1 January 2020 By Shyam Saran	An (Un)Enlightened Sadhguru in King Modi's Court The Wire, 1 January 2020 By Rajshree Chandra
Military is tightening its grip in Pakistan The Hindu Business Line, 31 December 2019 By G Parthasarathy	Fragmented Identities: (Re)living the ‘Partition’ Today The Wire, 31 December 2019 By Asaf Ali Lone

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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

By

Shyam Saran

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

By

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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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
Regional roots of India’s national elections Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar and Rahul Verma	Federalism and social policy Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Avani Kapur
Decentralizing administration Seminar Magazine, 31 May 2019 By Deepak Sanan	The problem Seminar Magazine, 1 May 2019 By Yamini Aiyar and Louise Tillin
Dealing with Pakistan Needs a Grand Strategy Economic & Political Weekly, 30 March 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	A Sensible Tale of Three Powers Economic & Political Weekly, 23 March 2019 By Zorawar Daulet Singh

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Maximum Schemes, Minimum Welfare

By

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

By

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

By

Partha Mukhopadhyay and Mukta Naik

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

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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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National Health Mission (NHM) 12 July 2019 By Snehal Shah, Ruchi Junnarkar, Avani Kapur	Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana & Janani Suraksha Yojana (PMMVY & JSY) 12 July 2019 By Ritwik Shukla, Avani Kapur
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) 12 July 2019 By Avani Kapur, Meghna Paul	Samagra Shiksha 12 July 2019 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur
Differentiation Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), 19 June 2019 By Lavanya Rajamani	Beyond Poles and Wires: How to Keep the Electrons Flowing? 7 June 2019 By Navroz K Dubash, Ashwini K Swain
Synthesis Report on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Uttarakhand, Odisha and Rajasthan: Challenges and Opportunities 30 March 2019 By Sujith Koonan, Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar	Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Rajasthan: A Review of the Law and Policy Framework 30 March 2019 By Sujith Koonan, Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar
Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Uttarakhand: A Review of the Law and Policy Framework 30 March 2019 By Sujith Koonan, Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar	Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Odisha: A Review of the Law and Policy Framework 30 March 2019 By Sujith Koonan, Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar

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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? Seminar Series on Delhi's Air Pollution
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	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 – 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	Namati Environmental Justice Program	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	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