CSD Faculty Publications (Since 2020)
Development Studies
Books / Edited Book
1 | Ashok Pankaj (2025). Rammanohar Lohiya: Bharat ki Himalaya Niti (in Hindi) Lok Bharti Prakashan, Prayagraj. |
2 | Ashok Pankaj (2024). Lohia Ke Sapno Ka Bharat: Bhartiya Samajvad ki Ruprekha (in Hindi) Lok Bharti Prakashan, Prayagraj. |
3 | Nanda, Nitya (2021). India’s Industrial Policy and Performance: Growth, Competition and Competitiveness. Routledge. |
4 | Ashok Pankaj, Sarma, Atul & Borah, Antora(Eds.). (2020). Social Sector Development in North-east India. Sage Publications. |
5 | Govinda, R & Poornima M (ed.). (2020). India’s Social Sector and SDGs: Problems and Prospects, New York: Routledge.(ISBN: 978-1-138-36151-5) |
Chapter in Books
1 | Ashok Pankaj. (2024). ‘ Sociology of Religion and Religion of a Sociologist”, Interview with Prof T.N. Madan, in Conversation with Indian Sociologists (edited by B K Nagla), Rawat Publication, Jaipur, 2024. |
2 | Nanda, Nitya (2023). ‘India ASEAN Cooperation for an Equitable Global Economic Order’. In Prabir De (Ed.), Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations: Towards Indo-Pacific, New Delhi: KW Publishers. |
3 | Ashok Pankaj. (2023). Dharma ka Samajshastra evam Samaj Shastri ka Dharma (In Hindi), Interview with Prof T.N. Madan, Bharat ke Samaj Shastriyaon ke Saath Samvaad (edited by B K Nagla) Rawat Publication, Jaipur, 2023. |
4 | Nanda, Nitya (2022), ‘India and Vietnam: Emerging Linkages’, In Greg Bailey, Panchanan Das, Pradip Kumar Biswas, Manoj Kumar Sanyal (Eds), Diversity and Transition in South and South-East Asia: Essays in Honour of Professor Antonia Marika Vicziany, Steps Books, New Delhi |
5 | Nanda, Nitya (2020). ‘The Economy Post-Lockdown In: Aic-Eepc Asean-India Centre (Aic)’. (Eds.) Covid-19: Challenges For The Indian Economy –Trade And Foreign Policy Effects, Engineering Export Promotion Council Of India (Eepc), New Delhi. |
6 | Nanda, Nitya (2020). ‘Antidumping Measures: An Indian Perspective In: Ajitava Raychauduri’. Prabir De And Suranjan Gupta (Eds.), World Trade And India: Multilateralism, Progress And Policy Response, Sage Publications. |
7 | Nanda, Nitya. ‘Twenty Years of Mekong Ganga Cooperation: Economic Linkages through Cultural Tie’. In Twenty Years of Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC): Achievements and Way Forward. Vij Books, New Delhi. |
8 | Nanda, Nitya. ‘Green-Field Versus Merger and Acquisition: Role of FDI’. In Economic Growth of South Asia in P. Lakhanpal, J. Mukherjee, B.Nag and D. Tuteja (eds.), Trade, Investment and Economic Growth: Issues for India and Emerging Economies, Singapore: Springer. |
Articles
1 | Alha, Akhil (2024). Shrinking Government Jobs and Trivialising Reservation: What Does Data Tell Us?, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 59, Issue No 34, pp. 17-21, 2024 |
2 | Alha, Akhil (2024). Dissecting General Election Results in Sikar and Bharatpur in Rajasthan, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 59, Issue No 41, pp-27-29, 2024. |
3 | Nanda, Nitya (2023). A Tale of Two Countries: Why Economic Reforms Produced Different Outcomes in China and India, Economic and Political Weekly, 58(50):53-60. |
4 | Pankaj, Ashok (2022). On the occasion of 75 years of Independence [Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav Ke Sandarva Mein] Samajik Vimarsh 5(2), July-December 2022, pp. 177–200, 2023. |
5 | Nanda, Nitya (2022), “G20 and ASEAN-India Cooperation for Equitable Global Sustainable Development”, AIC Commentray No 32, RIS, New Delhi. |
6 | Nanda, Nitya (2020) Impact of FDI on Economic Growth in South Asia: Does the Nature of FDI Matter? Review of Market Integration, Vol. 12 (1-2). |
7 | Alha, Akhil (2020). A Story of a peasant Struggle in Jiwandesar, Rajasthan: Origin, Evolution and the Current Status, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No 40, October 3, 2020, pp. 19-21. |
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Book Reviews
1 | Nanda, Nitya (2024) “Rise of the North East: The Path to Prosperity, Inclusion, and Sustainability,” by Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), Oxford University Press (OUP), New Delhi, p276, Journal of Asian Economic Integration, 6(1): 118-20. |
2 | Ashok Pankaj (2024). The Final Countdown, review of The Last Mile: Turning Public Policy Upside Down by Amarjeet Sinha, Routledge, published in The Indian Express, 17 March 2024. |
3 | Ashok Pankaj (2023). A Biography of a Vice-Chancellor: Samajik Vimarsh 6(1), Jan-June 2023, pp. 121-124. |
4 | Ashok Pankaj (2022). The Journey of Hindi Language Journalism in India: From Raj to Swaraj and Beyond by Mrinal Pande, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2022, Economic And Political Weekly, Vol. LIX, No. 16, pp. 32-34. |
5 | Ashok Pankaj (2021). Federalism and Local Government in India by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, Studium Press (India) Pvt Ltd. Delhi, 2017 and Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru: Global Changes and Local Impacts edited by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, Satyanarayana Sangita and Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2016. Social Change, vol. 51, no.4, (Sept-Dec. 2021), pp 51 (4) pp. 596-599. |
6 | Ashok Pankaj (2021). Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: Swarnim Bharat Ke Disha Sootra By Sunil Ambekar, Prabhat Papaerbacks, 2021, New Delhi, Samajik Vimarsh, Volume 4, no.2 (July-December 2021), pp.300-304. |
7 | Ashok Pankaj (2022). Political Economy of Caste in India by K S Chalam, Sage Publication, 2020, New Delhi, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Vol. 14 No. 1, May 2022, pp.122-124. |
8 | Ashok Pankaj (2021). China Transformation By Manoranjan Mohanty, Sage Publication, (2018, Hindi ed.2020), Delhi, Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha, Vol 8 No.1 (Jan-June 2021) pp. 132-135. |
9 | Ashok Pankaj (2020). Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualizing the Indian Village by K.L. Sharma, Sage Publications, 2019, Delhi, Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha, Vol 7 No. 2 (July-Dec 2020) pp. 354-357. |
10 | Ashok Pankaj (2020). Samajbad: Sansay and Uttar (Socialism: Doubts and Clarifications) by Raghu Thakur, Gautam Prakashan, Bhopal, 2019, Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha, Vol 7 No. 1 (Jan-June 2020) pp. 187-190. |
11 | Ashok Pankaj (2020). Did India Fail Frontier Gandhi? R N P Singh, Vitasta and Vivekanand International Foundation, 2020, New Delhi, Samajik Vimarsh, Volume 3, no.2 (July-December), pp.291-295. |
Media / Opinion Articles
1 | Nanda, Nitya (2025), “Mind the gap: India needs to reimagine the mechanism of fiscal transfer,” The Telegraph, January 1. |
2 | Nanda, Nitya (2021), “Hit the brakes: election-oriented budget”, The Telegraph, March 12. |
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4 | Nanda, Nitya (2020), “Mind the Gap: Social distancing Vs physical distancing”, The Telegraph, May 31. |
5 | Ghosh, S.M. & Qadeer, I. (2020). “Why a lockdown helps only when judiciously combined with other strategies”. Science the Wire (dated 24 april, 2020): https://science.thewire.in/health/coronavirus-lockdown-quarantine-testing-rate/ |
Foreword / Interview
1 | (Pankaj, Ashok 2023). To a book on Caste System by Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Ed. By Raghu Thakur, (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2023) |
2 | (Pankaj, Ashok 2023). To a book on Sustainable Transitions in India: Progress and Directions edited by A Premkumar and T V Arun ( Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2023) |
3 | (Pankaj, Ashok 2022). “Bhartiya Samajshastra ki Nirmiti, An Interview with T N Madan, Samajiki, Issue No. 3, April June 2022, pp. 109-125. |
Agriculture and Rural Development
Books / Edited Book
Ashok Pankaj (2023). Inclusive Development Through Guaranteed Employment: India’s MGNREGA Experiences (India Studies in Business and Economics). Springer Verla.
Chapter in Books
1 | Ashok Pankaj. (2024). “Women-led Climate Action in India: Lessons from India’s two Flagship Programmes – MGNREGS and DAYNRLM”, jointly with Amarjeet Sinha in Climate Action and Justice (Routledge) |
2 | Nanda, Nitya (2022). ‘Global Regime for Agricultural Trade – Is it benefitting Indian farmers?’. Debesh Roy and Bijetri Roy (Eds), India’s Agriculture Exports: Opportunities and Challenges, New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing. |
3 | Pankaj, Ashok & Bhattacharya, Mondira ( 2020) “MGNREGS and Rural Labour Market in India” in Development Challenges of India after Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms: Income, Labour, Employment and Migration edited by N K Mishra, Springer 2020, pp. 247-259. |
Articles
1 | Ghosh, S.M., & Sharma, N. (accepted for publication). Caste and Agricultural Income Disparity in India: Insights from NSSO Data. Economic & Political Weekly. |
2 | Sharma, N. & Goyal, A. (2024). Prospects and challenges of farming in Delhi: Evidences form the field. Journal of Rural Development, 42(4), 277-287. |
3 | Alha, Akhil (2023). Land Leasing in Kerala: Evidences from a Field Survey, Social Change (a SCOPUS indexed peer-reviewed journal of Sage Publication), 53 (3), 2023. |
4 | Ashok Pankaj (2022). Income and Livelihoods Promotion through Individual Assets under MGNREGS, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 57 (4) (January 22, 2022), pp 47.54. |
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6 | Nanda, Nitya (2021), “Agriculture, inter-sectoral inequality and the global trade regime: A South Asian perspective”, Trade Insight, 17(1-2), Kathmandu, 40-43. |
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8 | Ashok Pankaj (2020). Jeevika, Women and Rural Bihar: Cultural Impact of a Development Intervention Sociological Bulletin, 69 (2).Ashok Pankaj (2018). Discretionary Powers of Governor-Iii: An Interpretation from a Federal Perspective, Indian Journal Of Public Administration, Vol. 64 (1). |
9 | Alha, Akhil (2020). Non-farm Diversification and Agrarian Change: A Story of a Semi-arid Village in Rajasthan, Social Change, Vol. 50, Issue No 2, June 2020, pp 254-271. |
10 | Alha, Akhil (2020). Features of the Agrarian Market in Odisha: Insights from a Field Survey, Man and Development (a UGC-CARE listed peer-reviewed journal of CRRID Chandigarh), Vol. XLII No. 1, March 2020. |
11 | Goyal, Ankita (2020). Customary Land-Tenure and the Poor: A Study of Jharkhand and Meghalaya. Social Change, Vol. 50 (3). |
Book Reviews
1 | Ashok Pankaj (2021). K. L. Sharma, Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Villagea. Social Change, 51 (2). |
2 | Ashok Pankaj (2023). 25 Years of PESA: An Evaluation of Working of the PESA in the fifth Schedule Area, Samajik Vimarsh, Samajik Vimarsh 5(2), July-December 2023, pp. 355-357. |
3 | Akhil Alha (2023) Remembering India’s Villages by Santosh K Singh (edited), Social Change, September 2023. |
Media / Opinion Articles
1 | Ghosh, S.M. (2025). “Invisible yet Indispensable: What tribal farmers need”. Hindustan Times (dated 21 January, 2025): https://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Home/ShareImage?Pictureid=211303618bb |
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Conference paper
Nanada, Nitya (2024). Sustainability and Sustenance of Agriculture, seminar on International Conference on “Agriculture through the Lens of Small and Marginal Farmers: Challenges and Pathways,” New Delhi, 15-16 July 2024, Council for Social Development and IIC on 16 July 2024
Food Security, Health & Nutrition
Chapter in Books
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2 | Nanda, N. (2024), ‘Food Security in Africa and India’. In Ruchita Beri and Rajeesh Kumar (Eds), India and Africa: Deepening the Securing Engagement, 107-116, New Delhi: Pentagon Press |
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7 | Ghosh S.M., & Qadeer I. (2020). ‘Public Good Perspective of Public Health: evaluating health systems response to COVID-19’, in Uma Kapila (ed) Economic Developments in India, Vol. 250. Coronavirus Pandemic: Lessons and Policy Response. Academic Foundation: New Delhi, pp. 237-263. (Republished) |
Articles
1 | Ghosh, S.M. (accepted for publication). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Dietary Diversity in India Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach. Discover Food. (Scopus Q2-Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous); Scopus Citescore-2.3) |
2 | Debsarma, D., Ghosh, S. M. and Choudhary, B. K. (2025). Mapping Global Voices for Empowering Informal Healthcare Providers to Build a Sustainable Community-Based Primary Healthcare Model in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). International Journal of Health Policy and Management, (), -. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.8859. (Scopus Q1-Health (social science), Health Policy; Scopus Citescore-7.1) |
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Media / Opinion Articles
1 | Nanda, Nitya (2023), “In Poor Health,” The Telegraph, December 18. |
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Education
Books / Edited Book
Dubey, M., & Mitra, S. (Eds.). (2020). Vision of Education in India. Routledge. |
Chapter in Books
1 | Poornima M; Kaur, Ramandeep & Dhiman, Mehak. (2024). ‘Implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009: A Status Review’. In. Poornima, M; Kaur, Ramandeep & Sastry, Amrita (Ed.) Implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009: Where do we Stand?, New Delhi: CSD and Max Weber Stiftung. pp. 3-36. |
2 | Pankaj, Ashok & Poornima M. (2021). ‘Public vs. Private Provisioning of Elementary Education in India: A Trend in Privatization’, In. Saxena, K.B. (Ed.) Private Sector Participation in Public Services, New Delhi: Aakar Books. (ISBN: 978-9-350-02762-2). |
3 | Poornima M. (2021). ‘Kothari Commission Report 1964-66’. In. Dubey, Muchkund & Mitra, Susmita. (Ed.) Vision of Education in India, New Delhi: Routledge. pp. 108-125. (ISBN: 978-03-6764-390-4). (Republished) |
4 | Mitra, S. (2020). Socio-Economic Determinants of Secondary Education in India. Universal Secondary Education in India: Issues, Challenges and Prospects, (pp.245-262). Springer. |
5 | Mitra, S., & Agarwal, M. (2020). Public Investment in Education and Out of School Children: The Case of India in South Asia. In ECONOMICS OF G20: A World Scientific Reference Vol 2: How Developing Countries can Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 237-257). World Scientific. |
6 | Mitra, S. (2020). Tagore’s Vision of Education and Its Relevance Today. In Vision of Education in India (pp. 25-35). Routledge. |
7 | Mitra, S. (2020). Inequality and imbalances in the education system of India: Insights from NSSO 71st round. In Vision of Education in India (pp. 173-214). Routledge |
Articles
1 | Mitra, S., Mishra, S. K., & Abhay, R. K. (2023). Out-of-school girls in India: a study of socioeconomic-spatial disparities. GeoJournal, 88(1), 341-357. |
2 | Sharma, A. & Mitra. S (2023). Rationalisation of Schools and its Impact on Children’s Right to Education: Narratives of Violation of the RTE. Social Change, 53(4) |
Self-Learning Modules
Poornima M. (2022). ‘Unit 5: Issues of Decentralisation’ in BPAC-114 Contemporary Issues and Concerns in Indian Administration, New Delhi: IGNOU, available at https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/89575/1/Unit-5.pdf
Media / Opinion Articles
Ashok Pankaj (2022). ‘Teachers’ Post Abolition and NEP 2020 (with Prof Atul Sarma) in Assam Tribune, December 7, 2022
Environment
Chapter in Books
1 | Nanda, N & Mitra, S. (2024). Climate Change and Environment Issues in Post-liberalized India. In Satyaki Roy (Ed.) India’s Economy 2024: Disparities in Fractured Democracy. Aakar Books |
2 | Nanda, N., & Mitra, S. (2023). ‘Environment and Sustainable Development in South Asia’. In The Routledge Handbook of South Asia (pp. 276-292). Routledge. |
3 | Nanda, N. & Souvik Bhattacharjya (2023), ‘Waste Management for Promoting Circular Economy: The Indian Perspective’. Hema Diwan and Mona Sharma (Eds.), Integrated Waste Management: Circular Economy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK |
4 | Nanda, N., & Mitra, S. (2023). ‘Environment and Sustainable Development in South Asia’. In The Routledge Handbook of South Asia (pp. 276-292). Routledge. |
Articles
1 | Nanda, Nitya (2024), “Climate change and development concerns in South Asia”, Trade Insight, 20(1-2), Kathmandu, 32-35. |
2 | Nanda, Nitya and Susmita Mitra (2024), “Women Farmers’ Leadership in Climate Change Adaptation”, TerraGreen, WSDS Special Issue, 16(11), TERI, New Delhi, 36-39. |
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4 | Nanda, Nitya (2022), “Regional Cooperation: Imperatives and Possibilities of Renewable Energy in South Asia”, Energy and Power, Anniversary Issue, Dhaka, 55-58. |
5 | Mitra, S., Mehta, P. K., & Mishra, S. K. (2021). Farmers’ Perception, Adaptation to Groundwater Salinity, and Climate Change Vulnerability: Insights from North India. Weather, Climate, and Society, 13(4). |
Book Reviews
Mitra, S. (2024). Subhash Sharma and Kshipra Sharma(Eds), Environment and Society: Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Social Change, 54(4), 596–599. (Scopus listed)
Media / Opinion Articles
1 | Nanda, N & Mitra, S. (2024). Women Farmers’ Leadership in Climate Change Adaptation, TerraGreen (Volume 16, issue 11), TERI |
2 | Nanda, Nitya (2021), “Wheels of Change” (Battery-operated bus bus vs. electric trolley bus), The Telegraph, July 18. |
Conference papers
Nanda, N & Mitra, S. (2023). India’s Climate Commitments: Analysing Implications, Seminar on Environmental Protection in India from the Perspective of the Poor, New Delhi, 21-22 September 2023, Council for Social Development and IIC
Marginalised Groups / Labour
Articles
1 | Alha, Akhil (2025). What Explains High Incidence of Poverty Among Dalits in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh?, The Indian Economic Journal, 30th April 2025 (online issue). |
2 | Alha, Akhil (2025). A Tale of Two Sub- Plans: Status, Issues and the Way Forward for SCSP and TSP (2025), Economic and Political Weekly, 60(24), pp.66-72, June 14. |
3 | Ashok Pankaj (2024). An Agonizing Search for Liberal–Secular Islam, review article (Hasan Suroor, Who Killed Liberal Islam?) in Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 9 December 2024 |
Book Reviews
1 | Akhil Alha (2020) Limits of Bargaining: Capital, Labour and the State in Contemporary India by Achin Chakraborty, Subhanil Chowdhary, Suparna Banerjee and Zaad Mahmood, Contemporary South Asia, 28:4, pp. 527-528, December 2020. |
2 | Akhil Alha (2020) Uncertain Journeys: Labour Migration from South Asia by A.S. Panneerselvan (edited), Social Change, Vol. 50, Issue No 3, September 2020, pp 491-493. |
Working Papers
Akhil, Alha & Garwa, Savitri (2023).Rhetoric versus Reality: Budgetary Allocations to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Union Budgets: CSD Working paper: CSD 1/2023, Council for Social Development, November 2023.
Media / Opinion Articles