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Neera Chandhoke
Neera Chandhoke is Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Director of the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. She received her M.A degree (1968) and her PhD (1984) from the University of Delhi. Her main teaching and research interests are Political Theory, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of Developing Societies with special focus on India. She has published three books: The Conceits of Civil Society, 2003 (Delhi, Oxford University Press), Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities, 1999 (Delhi, Oxford University Press), and State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory, 1995 (Delhi, Sage). Furthermore, she has edited three books: Mapping Histories, 2000 (Tulika), Grass-Roots Politics and Social Transformation, 1999 (University of Delhi Press), Understanding The Post-Colonial World, 1995 (Published under the Auspices of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi). Continuously contributing a number of articles to national and international journals she additionally writes regularly for the Indian newspapers on contemporary themes. Currently she is directing two projects: ‘Conflict and Institutional Change in India’ in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and ‘Globalization and the State in India’. The latter project seeks to examine the impact of globalization on the capacity of the Indian state to provide basic goods/services to particularly the poorer sections of society. The paper written for the UNRISD project overlaps to a large extent with the concerns of the second project.
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