MAJOR RESEARCH CONCERNS
1. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (Reservation; Backwardness/Backward Class Politics; Human Resource Development);
2. AGRARIAN PROBLEMS (Farmers’ Suicides; Peasant Struggles; Land Reforms; Social Change);
3. CASTE SYSTEM (Caste and Politics; Dalit Problems; Emancipation Politics; Social Discrimination; Social Exclusion; Social Mobility; Social Movements; Untouchability; Weaker Sections);
4. DISABLED AND SOCIETY (The need and means for building up inclusive societies)
5. EDUCATION (Academic Freedom; Educational Perspectives and Disparities; Quality and Spread; Reservation Politics);
6. SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION, and INCLUSIVE PUBLIC POLICY;
7. GANDHIAN STUDIES (on the importance of non-violence, peace and Satyagraha in social development and social well-being);
8. NON-VIOLENCE, FREEDOM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (from a Gandhian perspective);
9. GLOBALIZATION (and Education, Religion, Society);
10. POLITICS and GOVERNANCE (Electoral, Caste, Language, Religious, and Vote-bank Politics; Governance and Corruption; Democratic Governance; Law and Society; Public Policy);
11. RELIGION (and Communalism, Globalisation, Secularism, Social Conflict, Terrorism; Religious Minorities).
RESEARCH WORKS AT A GLANCE
a) Works [Books] in progress
1. Backwardness Politics: Tamil Nadu, 1840-2012;
2. Caste Discriminations in Indigenous Education in British India;
3. Mandal Commission and After: India’s Affirmative Action Politics;
4. Caste and Education in Early 19th Century Madras Presidency.
b) Works completed
1) Project reports 03
2) Books and Monographs 05
3) Articles in edited books 11
4) Articles in journals 28
5) Articles in MIDS Bulletin 05
6) MIDS Working Papers 05
7) Articles in Magazines and Newspapers 101
8) Book Reviews 48