PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
Prof Sudha Pai is a well-known political scientist, author and columnist. She retired as Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Political Studies and as Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January 2016. Pai holds a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and has over 35 years of teaching and research experience at Gargi College, Delhi University and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University as Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences in 1980.
Dalits in the New Millennium (edited with Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
Maya, Modi, Azad: Dalit Politics in the Time of Hindutva (with Sajjan Kumar)
Harper Collins, 2023
Politics of Representation: Historically Disadvantaged Groups in India's Democracy (edited with Sukhadeo Thorat)
Palgrave Macmillan 2022
Constitutional and Democratic Institutions in India: A Critical Analysis
Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2020
Everyday Communalism: Riots in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh, (with Sajjan Kumar)
Oxford University Press, 2018
Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal (ed with Avinash Kumar)
Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2015, second edition 2016, paperback edition 2017
Revisting 1956 B.R Ambedkar and States Reorganization (co-authored with Avinash Kumar)
Orient Blackswan, 2014, second edition 2015
Dalit Assertion Oxford India, Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, 2013
Handbook on Politics in the Indian States Regions, Political Parties and Economic Reforms (ed.)
Oxford University Press, 2013, second edition 2015
Interrogating Reorganization of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in Independent India (edited with Asha Sarangi)
Routledge, New Delhi, 2011
Developmental State and the Dalit Question in Madhya Pradesh: Congress Response
Routledge, New Delhi, 2010
Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms and Governance (edited)
Pearson/Longman, New Delhi, 2007
Interrogating Social Capital: the Indian Experience (edited with D. Bhattacharyya, Bishnu Mohapatra and Niraja Jayal)
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005
Dalit Assertion and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution: the BSP in Uttar Pradesh
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2002. Volume 3 in the Sage Series: Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge
Democratic Governance in India: Poverty, Development and Politics of Identity (edited with Niraja Gopal Jayal)
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001
"New Institutionalism and Legislative Governance in the Indian States A Comparative Study of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh" (with Pradeep Sharma)
Working Paper series CSLG/WP/05-07 Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. March 2005.
Special issue of The Book Review "Marginalization and Exclusion" January 2008.
Special issue of Seminar no. 157, March 2007 "Battleground UP".
"Decline of the Bahujan Samaj Party: Dalit Politics under Right-wing Hegemony" in Dalits in the New Millennium (edited with Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma)
Cambridge University Press, 2023.
“War of Perception, Brand Modi and Voters’ Choice” (with Sajjan Kumar) in India’s 2019 Elections The Hindutva Wave and Indian Nationalism (ed.)
Paul Wallace Sage Publications, 2020
"Globalization and Governance" Foreword in Globalization and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions (eds.)
Harihar Bhattacharyya and Lionel Koenig (eds.)
Routledge New Delhi, 2015.
(With Avinash Kumar) "Understanding the BJP's Victory in Uttar Pradesh" in India's 2014 Elections A Modi-led BJP Sweep (ed) Paul Wallace
Sage, New Delhi, 2015.
"Dalit Entrepreneurs, Globalization and the Supplier Diversity Experiment in Madhya Pradesh" in Dalits Mobility or Marginalization (ed.)
Clarinda Still, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014.
"Land Acquisition for SEZs: Contrasting Cases from the National Capital Region" (with Avinash Kumar) In Power Policy and Protest: the Politics of India's Special Economic Zones (eds) Rob Jenkins, Lorraine Kennedy and Partha Mukhopadhayay
Oxford University Press, 2014.
"The Dalit Question and the Political Response" in The Problem of Caste (ed.) Satish Deshpande, Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society
Orient Blackswan, 2014.
"Uttar Pradesh New Patterns of Mobilization in the 1990s and Beyond" in Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics (ed.). Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh Routledge
London, 2013.
"The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh: Dominance, Decline and Revival?" in Handbook on Politics in the Indian States Regions, Political Parties and Economic Reforms (ed.). Sudha Pai
Oxford University Press, 2013.
Making of a Political Community: The Congress Party and the Integration of Madhya Pradesh" in Interrogating Reorganization of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in Independent India (ed) Asha Sarangi and Sudha Pai
Routledge, New Delhi, 2011.
"Electoral Politics and Party: Mrs. Gandhi's Congress: 1964-84" in A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress (ed.) Aditya Mukherjee Volume IV 1964-84
Academic Publishers, New Delhi 2010.
"Farmers' Movements" in Handbook on Indian Politics (eds.) Niraja Jayal & Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Oxford University Press, 2010.
"Affirmative Action, Group Rights and Democracy: The Mala-Madiga Conflict in Andhra Pradesh" in Rethinking State Politics in India: Regions within Regions (ed.) Ashutosh Kumar
Routledge, New Delhi, 2010
"From Dalit to Savarna: The Search for a New Social Constituency by the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh" in Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms and Governance (ed.) Sudha Pai
Pearson/Longman New Delhi, 2007.
"Populism and Economic Reform: the BJP Experiment in Uttar Pradesh" in Politics of Economic Reform in India (ed.) Jos Mooij
Sage, New Delhi. 2005.
"Universal Elementary Education in India: An Exploratory Study of Movements in Civil Society" in Education as Social Action Knowledge, Identity and Power (ed.) Ashok Swain, Palgrave Macmillan
London, for UNRISD, 2005.
"Social Capital, Panchayats and Grass Roots Democracy: Politics of Dalit Assertion in Two Districts of Uttar Pradesh" in Interrogating Social Capital: the Indian Experience (eds.) D. Bhattacharyya, Bishnu Mohapatra, Niraja Jayal and Sudha Pai
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005.
"Quest for Identity through Politics: the Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh" in Electoral Representations, Political Representation and Social Change in India (ed.) Stephanie Tawa-Lama Rewal
Manohar, New Delhi. 2005.
"Political Mobilization: A Comparative Study of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh" in The Dalit Question, Reforms and Social Justice (eds.) Bibek Debroy & Shyam Babu
Globus Books for Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi. 2004.
"Democratic Governance, Civil Society and Dalit Protest" (with Ram Narayan) in Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary Society (eds.) Rajesh Tandon & Ranjita Mohanty
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2003.
Changing Political Preferences Among Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the 2000s: Shift from Social Justice to Aspiration Journal of Social Inclusion Studies
Sudha Pai: July 19, 2019.
"Understanding the Defeat of the BSP in Uttar Pradesh: National Election 2014" Studies in Indian Politics 2(2)
2014: 153-167.
"National Security and Foreign Policy: Bipartisan and Regional Pressures"
INSAR 2013
"From Dynasty to Legitimacy Women Leaders in Indian Politics" India International Quarterly Special issue Interrogating Women's Leadership and Empowerment,
Winter 2012/Spring 2013.
"BSP at the Crossroads" Seminar Annual Issue "India 2010 A Symposium on the year that was"
January 2011, No. 167.
"New Social Engineering Agenda of the Bahujan Samaj Party: Implications for State and National Politics" Journal of South Asian Studies Volume 32,
Issue 3 2009. Special Issue Democracy, Civil Society and Governance: Contemporary Challenges in India.
"Contested Meanings of Secularism and Nationalism: Controversies Surrounding the National Flag" India International Centre Quarterly Volume 36 No. 2,
Autumn 2009.
"Changing Dialectics of Dalit Aspirations: Demand for Affirmative Action" Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, A Review of Economic and Social Development Special issue Affirmative Action Guest Edited by Lord Meghnad Desai. Vol. 44, No. 2,
October 2008.
"The BSP in Uttar Pradesh" (Special issue on Dalit) Seminar No 471, November 1998: 38-42.
"Choices Before the BSP" Seminar No. 534, February 2004.
"New Social and Political Movements of Dalits: A Study of Meerut District" Contributions to Indian Sociology 34, no 2,
June, 2000.
"Changing Socio-Economic and Political Profile of Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh"Journal of the Indian School of Political Economy (Pune) (Special issue on Scheduled Castes)
July-December 2000.
"Indian Party System under Transformation Lok Sabha Elections 1998" Asian Survey XXXVIII, No 9,
September 1998: 836-52.
"Transformation of the Party-System An Analysis of the 1966 Lok Sabha Elections" Asian Survey XXXVI, No 12,
December 1996: 1170-83.
"Uttar Pradesh: Competitive Communalism Once Again" Economic and Political Weekly:
April 12, 2014: 16-19.
"BSP's Prospects in the Assembly Elections" Economic and Political Weekly:
July 26, 2003.
"Social Capital and Collective Action Development Outcomes in Forest Protection and Watershed Development" Economic and Political Weekly:
April 5, 2003.
"Electoral Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh: Hung Assembly Again" Economic and Political Weekly:
April 6, 2002.
"Politics of Language: Decline of Urdu in UP" Economic and Political Weekly:
July 6, 2002.
"Shift in the BSP's Electoral Strategy and its Impact: 1999 Lok Sabha Elections in Uttar Pradesh" Economic and Political Weekly:
October 30, 1999.
"New Political Trends in Uttar Pradesh: the BJP and the 1998 Lok Sabha Elections" Economic and Political Weekly:
July 14, 1998.
"Politicization of the Most Backward Castes Social Conflict and Political Preferences in Four Villages of Meerut District" co-authored with Jagpal Singh (Special Article) Economic and Political Weekly:
June 7, 1997.
"Quebec Separatism: The October Referendum and Beyond" Economic and Political Weekly:
October 12-19, 1996.
"Andhra Pradesh Elections and Fiscal Reforms" (Special Issue on State Assembly Elections 1993-95) Economic and Political Weekly:
January 13-20, 1996.
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