Education
B.A., M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D. (East Anglia)
Areas of Interest
鈥� India
鈥� South Asia in general
Research
Political economy of development; Indian politics; political participation and civil society in India; social policy in India and other 鈥榚merging economies鈥�; institutional theories; agrarian change (especially in South India)
Selected Publications
2020 India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty First Century (with Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown). Cambridge: Polity Press
2020 鈥樷�淩esponding to an epidemic requires a compassionate State鈥� How has the Indian State been doing in the time of COVID-19?鈥�, Journal of Asian Studies 79 (3) (and in Vinayak Chaturvedi (ed) The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia. Association for Asian Studies, Asia Shorts, Number 7, 2020)
2020 鈥楧ispossession and Agrarian Transformation in Late Medieval England鈥�, Review of Agrarian Studies 10 (2)
2021 鈥楻eturning to the 鈥淕reat Transformation鈥濃��, in Tim Allen and Alan Thomas (eds), Poverty and Development in the 21st Century. (Third Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press
2021 鈥楾he Implications of 鈥淪tunted Structural Transformation鈥� for Rural India鈥� (Review Article), Canadian Journal of Development Studies 42 (4)
2022 鈥榃here are we going? Reflections on social science research in the 2020s鈥�, Social Scientist 50 (1/2)
2022 鈥楥OVID-19 in Asia: Governance and the Politics of the Pandemic鈥� (Introduction to a Special Issue on Governance and the Politics of the Pandemic, with Hy Van Luong), Pacific Affairs 95 (4)
2022 鈥榃hy Was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? A State-in-Society Approach鈥�, Pacific Affairs 95 (4)
2022 鈥楥itizens, Clients or Supplicants? Reflections on Recent Studies of Indian Citizenship鈥�, Anthropologie et Societes 46 (1)
2022 鈥楾he PARI Studies in Bihar: An Introduction鈥�, Review of Agrarian Studies, 12 (1)
2023 鈥楢grarian Classic: An Essay on Revolution in a Chinese Village: Ten Mile Inn鈥�, Review of Agrarian Studies 13 (2)
2024 Liberty: The Indian Story. Delhi: Speaking Tiger