Completed Projects

Intergroup Inequality of Wealth in India

Dalits in India

Reduction in child mortality and malnutrition is one of the major indicators for county health achievement. It is both the instrument and product of economic and social development as child health strongly reflects the quality of life as well as welfare of the country. India’s progressed on health and nutrition but this progress is not equally distributed across all the section of society and even there is disparity from one place to another place.

The present research aims to examine the role of religion-based discrimination against Muslim community in the market economy and the specific objective is to study the nature and forms of economic discrimination in various markets in urban setting. Discrimination caused a negative impact on productivity and income of the households; therefore, it is important to study the consequences of economic discrimination on market imperfection and competitiveness and segregation/segmentation of markets on religion line.

This project aims to look at the knowledge, use, availability and access of digital technology by women from the socially marginalised communities and its consequences on their lives. This study explores how social divide is leading to ‘Digital Communication Gap’ resulting ‘Capacity Gap’ and enhance ‘Digital Divide’ among various population subgroups.

Urbanisation process in India has not been smooth and it has been often seen as the side effects of the development processes such as industrialisations. Therefore, in the initial phase of planning, planned urbanisation has not got due attentions which led to lopsided and haphazard growth of urban centres in India.

The dynamic of urbanization possess has created social conditions for many who migrate to megacities from different parts of the country. Many live under stressful life due to constant threat from ‘extreme others’; rooted primarily in the group identity and persisting prejudices.

This research project aimed at undertaking a state-level large scale survey of cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes in Haryana to understand the changing nature, patterns, causes and consequences of caste-based atrocities and effectiveness of the law; and to suggest remedial measures to strengthen the implementation and monitoring of the law to ensure rights of the victims of atrocities to security of life and social justice.

This collaborative study of Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Confederation of Indian Industries in five southern states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana is an attempt to understand the ownership of SC/STs in enterprises by their size, location, regional spread, industry group, seasonality, along with issues of capital and productivity.

Political representation is understood as a way of establishing the legitimacy of democratic institutions and creating institutional incentives for governments to be responsive to citizens. Concept of political representation has multiple and competing conceptions of how political representatives should represent constituents particularly disadvantaged groups, and the manner in which this inclusion can be made possible and guaranteed.

Status of Dalit Women in India , 2015

Privatisation of Higher Education and its Impact on Access of Social Groups and Strategies to Provide Financial Assistance: An All-India and State-Level Analysis , 2015

Progress of Reservation Policies in Employment and Education , 2015

Deprivation in Access to Basic Amenities in India: Analysis by Social Groups and States, 2001–2011 , 2015

Effectiveness of Job Reservation in India , 2015

Empowering Adolescent Girls and Boys for Improving Reproductive and Social Health sponsored by Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India , 2016

Dalit Human Rights in South Asia: Regional Synthesis Report sponsored by Christian Aid, India , 2016

Implementation of Social Protection Programmes in India: The Gaps and Challenges sponsored by Southern Voice, Dhaka , 2016

The Scheduled Castes in Karnataka – A Study of Change and Persistent Inequalities in their Economic and Social Conditions and Policy Suggestion Issues sponsored by Center for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, National Law School of India University, Bangalore , 2016

Status of Dalit Development in Punjab’ sponsored by Institute of Development and Communication, Chandigarh , 2016