This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely...
This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses...
The Centre de Sciences Humaines congratulates his head research of the Economics & Development research area: Dr. Bruno Dorin received the very prestigious title of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite Agricole (Chevalier of...
The Centre de Sciences Humaines congratulates Dr. Julien Levesque, its head researcher for the Politics & Society research area, who received the second prize of the Institut d’études de l’Islam et des Sociétés du...
Abstract: In 2016, seven billion people were mobile phone users, thus propelling the mobile phone head of other information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whether it be mobile personal health records or confidential clinical data...
In spite of the rising global interest in inequality, emerging economies have not been studied enough, due to the lack of sufficient data and differences in economic and social structures. It is important to...
Abstract: Human societies have seen a significant decrease in mortality from infectious diseases over the past century. However, we must still struggle with ongoing pathologies we once thought were under control (cholera, tuberculosis, plague,...
Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka, researcher at CSH and Professor at JNU, was the guest of CNN’s Off Centre show broadcasted on 2, September 2017, in which he came back to the acts of violence...
Dr. Parul Bhandari, associate researcher at CSH and visiting fellow at Cambridge University spoke on BBC World Service show recently spoke on the BBC Worldwide Service show “Crowdscience”, on a programme on “Love and...
Face the decline To suggest that demonetisation improved rural wages on the basis of rise in income of some workers is misleading. It halted the recovery of the rural economy, which had begun after...
