Center for the Advanced Study of India

In the latest issue of India in Transition, author and filmmaker Nilosree Biswas discusses the evolution of social justice themes in Hindi cinema over the decades, from the big screen to the smartphone.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Manav K (doctoral candidate, Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay) and Indivar Jonnalagadda (doctoral candidate, Anthropology and South Asia Studies, Penn) argue that the reactive ARHC schemehastily put together in the context of COVID-19must be re-configured around participatory processes involving beneficiaries and other stakeholders.

Through the Center for the Advanced Study of India at Penn Arts & Sciences, Penn students are reaching out into the worldfinding unique opportunities to learn across national borders and conduct research that leads to meaningful action.

Penn students! Have you heard? Applications for 2021 Summer Research Grants and the 2021-22 Sobti Family Fellowship are now OPEN! Read more and apply: https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/studentprograms

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Ramya Pinnamaneni (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) & Shravanthi M. Seshasayee (MaineHealth) describe India’s communication response to the pandemic, briefly highlighting what has been done so far and cautiously exploring where the country may be headed, particularly in light of the recent vaccine rollout.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Nikhar Gaikwad (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University) and Gareth Nellis (Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC, San Diego) summarize their research on the causes of migrants' exclusion in Indian cities.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Ganeshdatta Poddar (Associate Professor, FLAME University, Pune) discusses the cultural and political significance of several acts of peaceful civil dissent that have occurred throughout India over the past year.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Debjani Bhattacharyya (Associate Professor of History & Urban Studies, Drexel University) discusses why planning the future of India's coastal metros must begin from the warming waters of the Indian Ocean.

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In the latest issue of India in Transition, Raphaëlle Khan, Associate Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Research, Paris, and CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar, discusses India’s forgotten yet significant role in promoting a strong human rights regime during the early years of the United Nations.

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In the latest issue of India in Transition, CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Bilal Baloch, Co-Founder & COO, GlobalWonks, highlights a recent India Review special issue addressing the implications of the 2019 general election for India’s democratic polity.

NEW CASI Working Paper"Deceleration, Pandemic, Recession: Does India Have a Plan?"by Spring 2020 Visiting Fellow Roshan Kishore, Data & Political Economy Editor, Hindustan Times https://casi.sas.upenn.edu//deceleration-pandemic-recessio

NEW PAPERS published in the Journal of Development Economics (discussed at 2017 CASI 25th anniversary workshop on Early Childhood Development in India, in collaboration with Penn Professors Jere Behrman & Michel Guillot and former CASI Visiting Scholar Prakarsh Singh) https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/casi25thanniversarypublications

In this OMNIA Q&A, new CASI Director Tariq Thachil discusses his plans for the Center and coping with the pandemic.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Sai Balakrishnan (Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Arindam Dutta (MIT) connect the recent covid-related migrant fracas over lost trains to India’s skewed patterns of economic geography, and investigative why the Manikpur Junction became a chokepoint for the special Shramik (worker) trains carrying migrants back to their home villages in the Lower Gangetic Plain.

In the latest issue of India in Transition, Farzana Afridi, Associate Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), discusses air pollution in India and the findings of a novel intervention to induce households to shift away from using polluting cooking fuels and towards a clean fuel: liquified petroleum gas.