Akhila Balasubramanian
Biographic Data
| ID | 172355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akhila Balasubramanian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akhila |
| FAMILY NAME | Balasubramanian |
| SIGNATURE | BALASUBRAMANIAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5800-3210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anticorruption, Development, and the Indian State
This essay studies the evolution of India's anticorruption machinery and discourses of corruption from the 1940s to the 1960s as a tussle between the logics of bureaucracy and democracy playing out as part of decolonization. Anticorruption began as a way of safeguarding the British Government of India's war effort from wayward officials pilfering supplies. As the postcolonial government retooled coercive wartime laws and empowered an increasing n…
Diversity and Representation Among United States Participants in Amgen Clinical Trials
Objective Describe the demographic profile of US participants in Amgen clinical trials over a 10-year period and variations across therapeutic areas, indications, and geographies. Methods Cross-sectional retrospective study including participants enrolled (2005-2020) in phase 1-3 trials completed between January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2021. Results Among 31,619 participants enrolled across 258 trials, one-fifth represented racial minority populatio…
Toward a Free Economy
A forgotten famine of '43? Travancore's muffled 'cry of distress
Mass disease and starvation in the princely state of Travancore during the Second World War claimed some 90,000 lives. However, this episode has never received much prominence, especially when compared to the simultaneous crisis in Bengal. It is, in many ways, forgotten. Instead, Travancore's wartime food management apparatus appears in some accounts as a success story. How did this happen? Integration into the world economy, the reordering of a …
Contesting 'Permit-and-Licence Raj
Economic conservatism in India traces its roots in the fragmentation of political consensus following the success of the anti-colonial nationalist movement. Framed in the context of the Cold War, long before the 1991 liberalization reforms, this economic conservatism blended anti-communism, free-market advocacy, and the defence of property. This was expressed as the central agenda of the broadly secular Swatantra Party, an effort to consolidate t…
A forgotten famine of '43? Travancore's muffled 'cry of distress
Mass disease and starvation in the princely state of Travancore during the Second World War claimed some 90,000 lives. However, this episode has never received much prominence, especially when compared to the simultaneous crisis in Bengal. It is, in many ways, forgotten. Instead, Travancore's wartime food management apparatus appears in some accounts as a success story. How did this happen? Integration into the world economy, the reordering of a …
Contesting 'Permit-and-Licence Raj
Economic conservatism in India traces its roots in the fragmentation of political consensus following the success of the anti-colonial nationalist movement. Framed in the context of the Cold War, long before the 1991 liberalization reforms, this economic conservatism blended anti-communism, free-market advocacy, and the defence of property. This was expressed as the central agenda of the broadly secular Swatantra Party, an effort to consolidate t…
Contesting 'Permit-and-Licence Raj
Economic conservatism in India traces its roots in the fragmentation of political consensus following the success of the anti-colonial nationalist movement. Framed in the context of the Cold War, long before the 1991 liberalization reforms, this economic conservatism blended anti-communism, free-market advocacy, and the defence of property. This was expressed as the central agenda of the broadly secular Swatantra Party, an effort to consolidate t…
Toward a Free Economy
A forgotten famine of '43? Travancore's muffled 'cry of distress
Mass disease and starvation in the princely state of Travancore during the Second World War claimed some 90,000 lives. However, this episode has never received much prominence, especially when compared to the simultaneous crisis in Bengal. It is, in many ways, forgotten. Instead, Travancore's wartime food management apparatus appears in some accounts as a success story. How did this happen? Integration into the world economy, the reordering of a …
Anticorruption, Development, and the Indian State
This essay studies the evolution of India's anticorruption machinery and discourses of corruption from the 1940s to the 1960s as a tussle between the logics of bureaucracy and democracy playing out as part of decolonization. Anticorruption began as a way of safeguarding the British Government of India's war effort from wayward officials pilfering supplies. As the postcolonial government retooled coercive wartime laws and empowered an increasing n…
Diversity and Representation Among United States Participants in Amgen Clinical Trials
Objective Describe the demographic profile of US participants in Amgen clinical trials over a 10-year period and variations across therapeutic areas, indications, and geographies. Methods Cross-sectional retrospective study including participants enrolled (2005-2020) in phase 1-3 trials completed between January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2021. Results Among 31,619 participants enrolled across 258 trials, one-fifth represented racial minority populatio…
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)