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There are lessons for India from China on dams Hindustan Times, 8 November 2019 By Brahma Chellaney	Stuck in a haze: New Delhi’s smog is the cost of environmental neglect The Globe and Mail, 8 November 2019 By Brahma Chellaney
Reimagining the India Map Open, 8 November 2019 By Sandeep Bhardwaj	The Missing Pieces Open, 8 November 2019 By Rohit Chandra
The China factor in Sri Lanka’s politics The Hindu Business Line, 7 November 2019 By G Parthasarathy	India’s place in ‘Indo-Pacific’ The Tribune, 5 November 2019 By Shyam Saran
Climate change is real. There is a way for India to deal with it, smartly Hindustan Times, 2 November 2019 By Navroz K Dubash	A TALE OF TWO SUMMITS Asianaffairs, 2 November 2019 By G Parthasarathy
Bill for speedy resolution of water disputes should factor in recent SC verdicts Indian Express, 2 November 2019 By Srinivas Chokkakula	Indian govt’s regulation policy for drones covered everything but privacy The Print, 1 November 2019 By Ananth Padmanabhan

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1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security

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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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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	More priorities, more problems? Decision-making with multiple energy, development and climate objectives Energy Research and Social Science, 22 November 2018 By Ankit Bhardwaj, Madhura Joshi, Radhika Khosla, and Navroz K Dubash

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Climate Change, Civil Society and Social Movement in India

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PRADIP SWARNAKAR

Business Action on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Private Sector

By

Shankar Venkateswaran and MUKUND RAJAN

Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour

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ASHIM ROY, BENNY KURUVILLA, and Ankit Bhardwaj

India’s Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration

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Navroz K Dubash

Looking Out, Looking In: The Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian Print Media

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Anu Jogesh

Impact of Climate Change on India

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J SRINIVASAN

The Human Right to Water – A Testing Ground for Neoliberal Policies

By

Philippe Cullet

The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges

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Philippe Cullet

Is Conservation Impossible? The Case of Coastal Regulation in India

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Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon

The Ecological Costs of Doing Business: Environment, Energy and Climate Change

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Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

Maximum Schemes, Minimum Welfare

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Yamini Aiyar

Procedural Environmental Rights in Indian Law

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Shibani Ghosh

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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
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
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	What Matters for Urban Women’s Work: A Deep Dive Into Falling Female Labour Force Participation Oxfam India, 1 March 2019 By Shamindra Nath Roy, Partha Mukhopadhyay

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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
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

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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	Understanding Metropolitan Homelessness
Water and federalism	Water Policy, Law, and Conflict