Social Sciences

With an eclectic mix of disciplines, School of Social Sciences is engaged in activities that include research, teaching, outreach, advocacy and consultancy. The faculty are drawn from sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, educational studies and economics, and have conducted several research-cum-outreach projects in the fields of education, gender, governance and development. Current areas of interest are in forging inter-disciplinary work to understand and address issues in the areas of water and education. Current areas of research include education, migration and transnationalism, organisations, governance, development, urbanisation and economic sociology.

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Assistant Professor / Post-Doctoral Associate (NIAS-UNDP Policy Research Initiative on Inequality and Human Development)

Abha Rao	Anamika Ajay	Anitha Kurup
Ankita Rathi	Anupama Mahajan	Carol Upadhya
Chetan B Singai	Debosree Banerjee	Jeebanlata Salam
Keya Bardalai	Kshitija Joshi	Leya Mathew
N. Shantha Mohan	Narendar Pani	Rashmi M
S.S. Meenakshis...	Sashi Kiran C	Savitha Suresh Babu
Shalini Dixit	Shivali Tukdeo	Sindhu H R
Sitharama S. Iyengar	Sumedha Bajar

Current Programs

Ongoing Work

Sociology and Social Anthropology

Past Programs

Salam, J., 2013. State, Civil Society and Right to Education, Jaipur: Rawat Publishers.
Upadhya, C., 2013. Shrink-wrapped souls: Managing the self in India’s new economy. In Enterprise culture in neoliberal India: Studies in youth, class, work and media. . Enterprise culture in neoliberal India: Studies in youth, class, work and media. . pp. 93-108. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/725/.
Upadhya, C., 2013. Return of the ‘Global Indian’: Software professionals and the worlding of Bangalore. In Nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Duke University Press, Durham. Nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Duke University Press, Durham. pp. 141-161. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/724/.
Ramamurthy, V.S. & Pani, N., 2013. Energizing Sustainable Development. In G. Madhavan et al. Practicing sustainability. Practicing sustainability. New York: Springer Science, pp. 151–154. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/367/.
Rana, S., 2013. Quayson, Ato and Girish Daswani’s A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism.
M Singh, A., 2013. The politics of migration in India: What it is; and what to do?. Third Front Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1, pp.1-16. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/841/.
Pani, N., 2013. Reform strategy may require a review. The Hindu Survey of Indian Industry, pp.11–13. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/582/.
Upadhya, C., 2013. Book Review: Mapping migration within and from India: mobilities and networks. Migration Studies, 1, pp.247–252. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/394/.
Behera, A., 2013. The Students Islamic Movement of India: The Story so far. Journal of Defence Studies. Vol. 7, No, 7, pp.213-228.
Pani, N., 2013. Cash subsidies for food and the fallacy of composition. Yojana, 57, pp.20–22. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/351/.
Jafar, K., 2013. The impact of education-led growth on human development: A case study of Malappuram district, Kerala. National Institute of Advanced Studies. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/611/.
Kurup, A., 2012. Trend Analysis of PhD S in India 1998-2007, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/321/.
Veerabhadranaika, P. et al., 2012. ‘The Education Question’ from the Perspective of Adivasis: Conditions, Bangalore: NIAS Report.
Pani, N. & Singh, N., 2012. Women at the threshold of globalisation, New Delhi: Routledge. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/309/.
Rana, S., 2012. ‘A Comparative Study of the Representation of ‘Female’ in Amrita Sher-Gill and Francis Newton Souza’s Works’ , Literophile. Available at: http://www.literophile.org/Index.php?tag=issue-1-vol-5&paged=2.

The Provincial Globalisation programme explores processes of ‘provincial globalisation’ in India by studying transnational connections between Overseas Indians and their home regions, especially the effects of ‘reverse flows’ of resources, including remittances, philanthropy, investments, and knowledge. Provincial Globalisation is a collaborative international research programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India, funded by the Integrated Programme of WOTRO Science for Global Development, the Netherlands.

13 Feb 2012 'Imagined Landscapes: Europe through the Gaze of Indian Youth'
8 Feb 2012 Migrant Resource Flows and Regionl Development in India
18 Nov 2011 Transnational Discontents: Migration, Marriage and Desertion of Wives in Indian Punjab
9 Nov 2011 Migrating for an Education: Family, Gender and Social Mobility among Caribbean Nurses in Britain
14 Sep 2011 to 30 Oct 2015 International Migration, Remittances, and Development: Disciplines at Cross Purposes?
29 Mar 2011 Living Like a Common Man

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