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A webinar and discussion on Aditya Nigam’s new book ‘Decolonizing Theory: Thinking Across Traditions’ was held on 30 October 2020. The video is available on YouTube. The book aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western

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A panel discussion on ‘The Crisis in Indian Political Thought’ was held on 8 October 2020 via Zoom. The video is available on Facebook. There is an emerging consensus among the scholars that with the rise of BJP in 2014, India's second Republic is in the making, with new legislations and power-sharing arrangements fundamentally altering the old system.

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The 13th issue of Pratiman: Samay, Samaj, Sanskriti, a refereed journal of social sciences and humanities in Hindi is available free online. Published by the Indian Languages Programme of CSDS, it addresses the real needs of a burgeoning number of

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A book release and discussion on Yogendra Yadav's new book ‘Making Sense of Indian Democracy’ was held on 3 September 2020 via Zoom. The video is available on Facebook. The book provides a deep insight into the trajectory of India’s first

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Gaon Connection in consultation with Lokniti-CSDS conducted a national sample survey among rural households to find out how lives and livelihoods had coped during the Covid-19 lockdown. The findings of the study was released on 10 August 2020.