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. EDUCATION (Academic Freedom; Educational Perspectives and Disparities; Quality and Spread; Reservation Politics);
5. NON-VIOLENCE, FREEDOM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (from a Gandhian perspective);
6. GLOBALISATION (and Education, Religion, Society);
7. POLITICS and GOVERNANCE (Electoral, Caste, Language, Religious, and Vote-bank Politics; Governance and Corruption; Democratic Governance; Law and Society; Public Policy);
8. RELIGION (and Communalism, Globalisation, Secularism, Social Conflict, Terrorism; Religious Minorities).