Current number of academic staff: 5 (with 15 affiliates in other departments). Recent publications: The Idea of India; Nehru’s Judgement; Social Movements, Political Parties and the Creation of New States in India; The Measure of a Tribe: The Cultural Politics of Constitutional Reclassification in North India; Towards Fusion: Atoms for Peace and Physics in India. Current research projects: Democracy in India; Jawaharlal Nehru; Legal understandings of culture in India; Subnational Political Regimes and Poverty: Small Farmers and the State; The sociology of science in 20th-century India. Partner organisations: The Institute is closely involved in the College’s key partnership with Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a programme of research exchanges for postgraduate students; it also receives visiting fellows from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

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