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Constitutional Ideas and Political Practices: Fifty Years of the Republic

UPIASI carried out a multi-scholar research project on "Constitutional Ideas and Political Practices: Fifty Years of the Republic." The research for this project took place during 1999-2002 and the resulting volume, India's Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies was published in India by Permanent Black in 2002 (hardback) and 2004 (paperback), and in hardback and paperback editions by Anthem Press, London, in 2005.

Innovation in India

The research project on "The Context of Innovation in India: The Case of the Information Technology Industry", was successfully completed in 2002.  The papers have been published in a special issue of the Sage journal, Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 7, No. 1, (January-June 2002). 

Federalism and the All India Services

UPIASI’’s initiative of reviving the idea of publishing the proceedings of a CASI-Centre for Policy Research (CPR) Workshop on Federalism and the All India Services held in January 1995, resulted in a CASI/UPIASI-CPR joint publication, The Changing Role of the All India Services: An Assessment and Agenda for Future Research on Federalism and the All India Services, co-edited by Balveer Arora, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Beryl Radin, State University of New York, Albany, which was published as a hardback report in March 2000.

In Defense of the Indian Voter

Neelanjan Sircar
Monday, February 10, 2014

As the Lok Sabha elections draw near, the focus is back on the Indian voter. Media, scholars, and policymakers often perpetuate the erroneous view that the Indian voter is relatively unsophisticated, responding only to short-term benefits and thus can be easily manipulated. Consider, for instance, the recent calls by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ban opinion polls in the run up to the election for fear of undue influence, or the constant media stories of vote bank politics and government sops.

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Patrick French

Patrick French is a leading biographer, historian and commentator on South Asia. His most recent book,India: A Portrait (2011), was described by The Wall Street Journal as “a riveting read…one suspects that Mr. French could not pen a boring passage if he tried…a thoroughly enjoyable romp through six momentous decades.”