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Research Interests:
Political Economy of
Education, Democratic Decentralisation, Human Development
Courses Taught:
Contemporary
Political Theory, Democracy and Development
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
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Financing of Basic Education: `Private Solution to
Public Deficiency?’ in Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, (eds), Financing Education in
India: Current Issues and Changing Perspectives, New Delhi, NIEPA and Ravi
Books, 2003.
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‘Educational Progress in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan:
Despair and Hope’ in A. Vaidyanathan and P. R. Gopinathan Nair (eds), Rural
Elementary Education: A Grassroots View, New Delhi Sage Publications, 2001
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‘Exclusion in Education: Indian States in Comparative
Perspective’, in Illfare in India: Essays on India's Social Sector in Honour
of S.Guhan, New Delhi, Sage Publication, 1999.
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The Private Sector and Education for All (with Anuradha
De, Claire Noronha and Meera Samson) National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration and Ministry of Human Resources, 2000
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Social Exclusion from a Welfare Rights Perspective in
India, (with Paul Appasamy, S. Guhan, R. Hema and A. Vaidyanathan) ILO, 1996.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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‘From Land
Reforms to Land Markets: A Redistributive Shift in West Bengal?’, Economic and
Political Weekly, vol.38, No.49, 2003.
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‘On
Measuring Deprivation adjusted for Group Disparities’, (with S. Subramanian),
Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 19, No.2, 2002.
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‘Child
Labour as a Human Security Problem: Evidence from India’, Oxford Development
Studies, vol. 29, No. 3, 2001.
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‘Capability Failure and Group Disparities: Some Evidence from India for the
1980s’, (with S. Subramanian), Journal of Development Studies, vol. 37, No. 5,
2001, (recipient of the Dudley Seers Prize).
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‘The
Educational Challenge before the `knowledge Economy’: Implications for
Planning and Financing", Perspectives in Education, vol. 17, 2001.
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‘Child
Labour and Child Security: The Indian Context’, The Good Society, vol. 9, no.
1, 1999.
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‘Democracy, Welfare, and the Role of the State’, Review of Development and
Change, vol. 1, 1996.
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‘Schools
without Schooling’, Seminar, December 1995.
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‘Study of
Variations in Educational Performance in Tamil Nadu’, (with A. Vaidyanathan),
Economic and Political Weekly, August 27, 1994.
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Access to
Education in India: Retrospect and Prospect’, (with A. Vaidyanathan), Journal
of Educational Planning and Administration, vol. 8, 1994.
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES:
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‘The
Political Economy of Communal Terror’, The Hindu, 2002.
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‘Science,
Astrology and Openness’ (with Parthasarathi Majumdar). The Hindu, 5 May 2001.
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‘Contours
of Decentralisation’, The Hindu, 27 December 2000.
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‘Constitutional Stocktaking: Why Bother?’, The Hindu, 22 March, 2000.
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‘Human
Development and Human Rights through the `prism of Gender',in the electronic
newsletter of the International Development Ethics Association, December 2000
edition,
http://www.carleton.ca/idea/newsletter/reports_122000_2.html
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‘We the
People: Weaponization and Citizenship’, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website
(Santa Barbara, California,
wagingpeace@napf.org),
November 1999.
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