The course prepares students to employ political-economy– and anthropological perspectives to explain and analyse several topics that they may encounter in their fieldwork such as land acquisition, women’s property rights, Dalit-Adivasi land rights, and the role of middlemen in land deals.

This course centers the Partition as an entry point into questions of legal, political and social belonging and exclusion in South Asia.

How does the state exercise its legitimacy across different societal interests?

This course introduces you to the lexicon, concepts, and arguments around economic ideas, covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics and public economics.

Trace how ideas of progress and growth have evolved

Engages with the question of Citizenship as an issue of increasing importance in India.

The course examines a set of extraordinary state responses that aim to restore rule of law in societies emerging from violent, usually undemocratic pasts.

Identify and assess the most appropriate data to inform organisational decisions

How do theories of development (such as modernisation, dependency and national development) imagine our futures?

Where health policy meets real-world action

This course examines the health policy landscape and applies health systems frameworks to understand real-world public health concerns.

Work with real datasets to interpret development trends

How do people make a living?

Pre-service teacher education (PSTE) is critical for continuous teacher professional development.

The course will help students to gain familiarity with various forms of organisations and critically assess the need for different forms.

Manage organisations to align with public policy goals, strengthen collaboration with state institutions and contribute effectively to development

Appreciating and interrogating the human-nature interactions in a contested land-sea ecological interface.

Exploring the ecology and livelihoods of the coastal zone which is gradually becoming the most contested ecological interface in the country today.

This course seeks to examine and explain how laws and policies structure, regulate, and
affect urban development in India.

The study of cities for public policy and governance.

A course to help students discern sociological, political-economic, and phenomenological tenets on urbanisation and urbanisms in India that aid the students to map and analyse the interconnections, flows and processes of development.

Connect public policy advocacy with fundamental ethical and moral ideas.

This is a course that seeks to provide students with an overview of welfare rights in India, while simultaneously requiring them to conduct in-depth research on aspects of a specific welfare rights programme.

This course aims at introducing students to understanding and examining public health by interrogating what is ​‘public’ and ​‘health’.