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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	Is the BJP government seeking to create a Hindu rashtra — by jugaad? Hindustan Times, 30 December 2019 By Neelanjan Sircar
NEW CHALLENGES AMIDST REGIONAL RIVALRIES Asian Affairs, 30 December 2019 By G Parthasarathy	The Usual Suspects India Today, 29 December 2019 By Bharat Karnad
How the BJP's dominance changed India's political landscape The Times of India, 29 December 2019 By Rahul Verma	Weathering CAA storm The Tribune , 26 December 2019 By G Parthasarathy

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1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security

By

LHM Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P Lama, and Li Bo

Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis

Edited by

Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon

India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945

By

Srinath Raghavan

The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution

Edited by

Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Modi and his Challenges

By

Rajiv Kumar

The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultures

By

Rajshree Chandra

Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Lovleen Bhullar

Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)

By

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

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Solutions when the ‘solution’ is the problem Seminar Magazine, 31 January 2019 By Yamini Aiyar	The political economy of electricity trade and hydropower development in eastern South Asia International Journal of Water Resources Development, 11 January 2019 By Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Sagar Prasai
Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation Indian Law Review , 11 January 2019 By Philippe Cullet	Recasting inequality: residential segregation by caste over time in urban India Environment and Urbanization, 7 January 2019 By Trina Vithayathil, Gayatri Singh, and Kanhu Charan Pradhan
World Order without Hegemony Economic & Political Weekly, 29 December 2018 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Book review: Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns Sage Journals, 20 December 2018 By Gregory F Randolph and Mukta Naik
Predicting the Future of Census Towns Economic & Political Weekly, 15 December 2018 By Shamindra Nath Roy and Kanhu Charan Pradhan	Mission Impossible: Defining Indian Smart Cities Economic & Political Weekly, 15 December 2018 By Sama Khan, Persis Taraporevala, and Marie-Hélène Zérah
Urbanization in the time of climate change: Examining the response of Indian cities WIREs Climate Change, 27 November 2018 By Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj	Are Linguistic Nationalisms Killing South Indian Federalism? Economic & Political Weekly, 24 November 2018 By Pranav Kuttaiah

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Protecting Power: The Politics of Partial Reforms in Punjab

By

Ashwini K Swain

Common but differentiated responsibilities

By

Lavanya Rajamani

The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the United Nations Climate Change Regime

By

Daniel Bodansky and Lavanya Rajamani

South Asia: Environmental Concerns and Human Rights Violations

By

Shashi Motilal and Prakriti Prajapati

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the international climate change regime

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime

By

Lavanya Rajamani

Innovation and Trends in Water Law

By

Philippe Cullet

The Right to Water in Rural India and Drinking Water Policy Reforms

By

Philippe Cullet

An Uneven Flow? Navigating Downstream Concerns Over China’s Water Policy

By

Nimmi Kurian

Central Concepts in the Paris Agreement and How They Evolved

By

Lavanya Rajamani and Emmanuel Guérin

The Supreme Court and India’s Judicial System

By

Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan

Guiding Principles and General Obligation (Article 2.2 and Article 3)

By

Lavanya Rajamani

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‘Bridging the Gap’ Opportunities for Private Sector Participation in Faecal Sludge and Septage Management 30 March 2019 By Anindita Mukherjee, Prashant Arya, Shubhagato Dasgupta, Shikha Shukla Chhabra	Synthesis Report on State of Water: A Look at the Legal and Regulatory Framework Governing Water Services across Jurisdictions 30 March 2019
Country Report – US: Regulating Wastewater and Urban Sanitation 30 March 2019	Country Report – England: Regulating Waste Water and Urban Sanitation 30 March 2019
Country Report – Republic of South Africa: Regulating Water and Urban Sanitation 30 March 2019	Policy Note: Dialogues On Sanitation: Legal Perspectives on Sanitation in Urban India 30 March 2019 By Scaling City Institutions for India: Sanitation
Sanitation in Large and Dense Villages of India: The Last Mile and Beyond 30 March 2019 By Aditya Bhol, Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anindita Mukherjee, Aastha Jain	White Paper on Regulating E-Commerce in India: Need for Principles-based Approach 20 March 2019 By Ananth Padmanabhan, Arjun Sinha
Assembling Private Sector Participation for a Safe and Sustainable Urban Sanitation Future-Discussions from the Dialogue 14 March 2019	The Cubbyhole of Area Studies: Why Indian IR is at an Analytical Cul-de-Sac 1 March 2019 By Nimmi Kurian

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Gender and Urban Sanitation Inequalities in Everyday Lives 1 June 2017 By Susan Esme Chaplin	Becoming Homeless, Surviving Homelessness 21 April 2017 By Ashwin Parulkar
Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities Explaining Disparities in Access to Urban Sanitation 18 April 2017 By Aditya Bhol	Out of school children in India: Some insights on what we know and what we don't 27 March 2017 By Kiran Bhatty, Radhika Saraf, and Vrinda Gupta
The Learning Generation: India’s Education Policy and Its Development Over Time International Commission for Financing Education, 20 January 2017 By Kiran Bhatty and Ambrish Dongre	Understanding India’s Urban Frontier: What Is behind the Emergence of Census Towns in India? 25 December 2016 By Partha Mukhopadhyay, Marie-Hélène Zérah, Gopa Samanta, and Augustin Maria
China and the World in the Coming Decade 23 November 2016 By Shyam Saran	Socioeconomic Status And Quality Of Care In Rural India: New Evidence From Provider And Household Surveys Health Affairs, 27 October 2016 By Jishnu Das and Aakash Mohpal
Competition and Choice in Electricity Distribution in India 29 August 2016 By Daljit Singh	Renewable Energy in India: An Analysis of the Regulatory Environment and Evolving Policy Trends 29 August 2016 By Megha Kaladharan

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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