Understand the different forms, scales, approaches and strategies for development interventions.

What is the nature of the small and marginal farmer and the non-farm informal sector?

Who are the people involved in India’s largest occupation and who is a farmer? 

Epidemiological analysis contributes to the understanding of how ​‘development’ as a process is closely connected to the building of a ​‘healthy’ society.

Creating workable livelihood interventions with greater understanding and competencies.

Understanding the politics of collective mobilisation and mass public action in Indian political culture. 

What is the institutional architecture of financial institutions in India?

Explore the notions of mental health and well-being.

Build a broad based perspective on poverty, inequality, social policies and constitutional principles using the capabilities approach.

The history and socio-economic impact of development interventions on ecological systems.

Take a look at the economic perspective, with a special synoptic overview of economic development in the Indian experience.

What are the economics of creating a sustainable world?

Exploring the two-way relationship between development and education. 

How is the physical phenomena of energy related to a sociological process like development?

What are the arrangements involved in natural resource management?

What is environmental justice and how is it made real in India?

Do gains in human health status come at the cost of future generations?

A two week exploration of the life experiences of different communities

Foundational aspects of research by using examples from developmental research and debates in India.

A multidisciplinary understanding of public health through multiple perspectives on health, disease and medicine. 

The Indian economic development story through a historically informed understanding.

This course is designed to equip students to build important skills and create a culture of evidence-based investigation.

Is infant mortality a health or education related problem?

What are institutions? What is their role? How do they work? How do they shape political and administrative actions?

Explore utopian ideas for a vision of a sustainable future. 

Learn how to define a problem, design research, collect data and present findings.

Exploring the role of technology and technological change in innovation in development. 

Apply key frameworks of gender equality for development action and policy interventions.