ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations

Achin Vanaik is former Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.

VOLUME 1 ; FOREWORD BY JAVEED ALAM ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION (ACHIN VANAIK) ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: SURVEYING THE LITERATURE ON STATE IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA (SAMIR KUMAR DAS) ; 1. SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIAN STATE: A SURVEY OF CURRENT TRENDS (SOBHANLAL DATTA GUPTA) ; 2. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDIA: A SELECTED REVIEW OF LITERATURE (SUPRIYA ROYCHOWDHURY) ; 3. SOCIAL POLICY IN INDIA: EDUCATION REFORM AND EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ECONOMY (DWAIPAYAN BHATTACHARYYA) ; 4. LAW, RIGHTS, AND THE INDIAN STATE (MANGESH KULKARNI) ; INDEX ; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS. ; VOLUME 2 ; FOREWORD BY JAVEED ALAM ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION (ACHIN VANAIK) ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: INDIA'S DEMOCRACY-AN EXCEPTION OR A MODEL? (K.C. SURI) ; 1. INDIAN DEMOCRACY: COGNITIVE MAPS (NEERA CHANDHOKE AND RAJESH KUMAR) ; 2. CONSTITUTION AND ITS INSTITUTIONS (MANJARI KATJU) ; 3. INDIAN FEDERALISM (BALVEER ARORA, K.K. KAILASH, REKHA SAXENA, AND H. KHAM KHAN SUAN) ; 4. ELECTION STUDIES (SUHAS PALSHIKAR) ; 5. PARTY SYSTEM AND PARTY POLITICS IN INDIA (K.C. SURI) ; 6. THE REPRESENTATION DEFICIT IN CIVIL SOCIETY (NEERA CHANDHOKE) ; INDEX ; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS. ; VOLUME 3 ; FOREWORD BY JAVEED ALAM ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION (ACHIN VANAIK) ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: REFRAMING INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (PRADIP KUMAR DATTA AND SANJAY PALSHIKAR) ; 1. TIME AND KNOWLEDGE (PRATHAMA BANERJEE) ; 2. REVISITING EARLY INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT: TEXTS, PRACTICES, MATERIAL CULTURE (KUMKUM ROY) ; 3. REVISITING MIDDLE PERIOD POLITICAL THOUGHT: TEXTS, PRACTICES, MATERIAL CULTURE (NANDITA PRASAD SAHAI) ; 4. NATIONALISM (RINKU LAMBA) ; 5. COSMOPOLITANISM: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE IN INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (MOHINDER SINGH) ; 6. DEMYSTIFYING DEMOCRACY IN THE DALIT-BAHUJAN, ADIVASI, AND FEMINIST DISCOURSES (KRISHNA SWAMY DARA) ; 7. ETHICS AND POLITICS (RAJARSHI DASGUPTA) ; INDEX ; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS. ; VOLUME 4 ; FOREWORD BY JAVEED ALAM ; GENERAL INTRODUCTION (ACHIN VANAIK) ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION (NAVNITA CHADHA BEHERA) ; 1. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE MEETS GLOBALIZATION: MAPPING THE TRAJECTORY OF A CONTESTED PARADIGM (JAYATI SRIVASTAVA) ; 2. NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS OF INDIA'S INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT (A.K. RAMAKRISHNAN) ; 3. INDIAN DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE IN A CHANGING WORLD (AMIT PRAKASH) ; 4. THE ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE OF INDIAN DIPLOMACY (DEEP K. DATTA-RAY) ; 5. NUCLEAR WEAPONS, INDIAN STRATEGY, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (RAJESH RAJAGOPALAN) ; 6. INDIAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE 'INTERNATIONAL' (MATHEW JOSEPH C.) ; 7. EXPLORING INDIAN PEACE PERSPECTIVES IN NEW MILLENNIUM (PRIYANKAR UPADHYAYA) ; 8. CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW (V.G. HEGDE) ; 9. BORDERS (SHIBASHIS CHATTERJEE) ; INDEX ; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.