Narendar Pani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1745102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Narendar Pani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Narendar |
| FAMILY NAME | Pani |
| SIGNATURE | PANI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Advanced Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women and Their Interests in Rural India
There is a substantial and growing recognition of the hazards of treating the interests of women as being homogenous. A variety of sources focus on diversity in the interests of a woman, ranging from bargaining with patriarchy where she is forced to carry out diverse tasks within the household, to the extension of these negotiations elsewhere in her socio-economic reality. These challenges are accentuated at times of wider social transformation. …
The National Bias of India’s First-Past-The-Post System
The relationship between the local and the national in Indian politics has taken a variety of forms, from secessionist tendencies to agitational politics around specific issues. The course of this relationship is typically explored through electoral performance, primarily whether a party wins sufficient seats to form the government. There is much less attention paid to the relationship between votes and seats. This has led to some questions not g…
Real estate politicians in India
This article uses as its entry point the empirical phenomenon of what we call ‘real estate politicians’ in India; that is, politicians whose main source of wealth is real estate. We argue that the rise of real estate politicians is situated within deeper processes of ‘labour voter contradictions’ in low-wage democratic societies of the global south. On the one hand, countries like India largely compete in the global economy based on their cheaper…
Towards an Asset-based Indicator of Poverty
In the debate on the measurement of poverty in India, which has sometimes bordered on the acrimonious, there has been near unanimity on the use of consumption expenditure as the primary basis for determining the poverty line. This article points to the many limitations of using consumption as the sole indicator of poverty, including ignoring the role of non-market state support. As an alternative, it offers assets as a more reliable indicator of …
Experiential regionalism and political processes in south India
Regional identities have periodically asserted themselves in Indian politics, both before and after Independence. The intensity of this regionalism has, however, tended to vary quite substantially from state to state and over time, ranging from a somewhat benign influence on state politics to demands for secession. These differences are typically explained in terms of specific local political conditions. While the local is undoubtedly important, …
Searching for Unity in the Diversity of Rural Karnataka
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development
Historical insights into modern corruption
Much of the debate on the relationship between social norms and corruption has been confined to comparisons across countries. But a gap between what is morally acceptable by a society and what is legally correct can exist within individual countries as well. In such cases, it is possible for individual acts of corruption to be seen to be morally justified. This paper explores the emergence of this gap through the imposition of British law on a ve…
Towards a Framework to Determine Backwardness
The decision to carry out a caste-based census in India in order to, among other things, get a more scientific basis for reservations has generated considerable debate. Much of this debate has focused on data quality, without much attention paid to the question of what should be the scientific basis for determining whether a caste is backward. This article explores the concepts used, implicitly or explicitly, in the literatures on caste and reser…
The Situational Dimension of Cash Transfers
The debate on cash transfers has tended to focus on the means of subsidizing the poor, particularly the possibility of reducing leakages in the Public Distribution System (PDS). Following the capabilities approach, this paper focuses on the ends of the policy, looking at cash transfers in terms of the impact on individuals in households. Through a formal statement of the proposed shift in India from a system of food subsidies embodied in the pric…
National Strategies and Local Realities
Despite sporadic attention paid to the case for “shock therapy,” the conceptualization of the implementation stage of policy making does not always get the attention it deserves. As a result there is inadequate understanding of the precise role this conceptualization plays in the transformation of a policy initiative into practice. This article draws on some of the insights of Amartya Sen, in another context, to identify different approaches to t…
Territories beyond geography
Ever since the reorganisation of states in India in 1956, the Central government has reacted to the pressure for the creation of new states on a case-by-case basis, leading to the emergence of new states in fits and starts. But the resistance that is developing to the promise of new states like Telangana suggests that there is no guarantee that newly drawn inter-state boundaries will have universal acceptance. In order to explore ways out of this…
Identity and political choice
The debate on identity politics is typically carried out in ideological terms. The phenomenon is associated with affiliation to a singular identity. The critique of this view is thus based on the argument that identities can be robustly plural and individuals choose to emphasise a particular identity in each situation. In this paper the focus is shifted from the ideologies of identity politics to the actual process through which individuals make …
Gandhi's Concept of Action and Identity Politics
The paradox of Gandhi being treated as an ivory-tower idealist despite being one of the most successful political leaders of the twentieth century, can be traced to his using a method to understand social processes that is fundamentally different from the dominant tendency to reduce reality to an underlying system. The fact that his method did not fit into the ideological systems that dominated the twentieth century contributed to it being ignore…
The Collective Family and Migration Capital
As the debate on the family in India has developed a greater focus on practice, there has been a need to understand the vast diversity of this institution. While such an emphasis on detail is essential, it also tends to take attention away from more comprehensive concepts that are needed to understand processes that cover different types of families. Among these processes is the role the family plays in migration. In this paper we use a field vie…
Reservations, Exclusion, and Conflict
Caste-based reservations (quotas) in government jobs and admissions to educational institutions in India have been associated with bouts of sometimes intense social conflict. The debate about this conflict has focused primarily on the case for and against reservations per se. Even when variations have been noticed in the degree of conflict generated by reservations across regions, the tendency has been to attribute the differences to local social…
Resource cities across phases of globalization
Icons and Reform Politics in India
Reform politics in India reflects an increasing tendency for politicians and others to present themselves as icons of reforms. An analysis of the South Indian state of Karnataka from 1999 to 2001, the initial years of the term of Chief Minister S. M. Krishna, provides us insights into the precise role icons play in the politics of economic reform
Indebtedness and the Theory of Agrarian Reform
Reforms to Pre-Empt Change
Legislating against Fundamental Change
Underdevelopment and the Theory of Unequal Exchange
Economic Growth and Technological Change in India
Real estate politicians in India
This article uses as its entry point the empirical phenomenon of what we call ‘real estate politicians’ in India; that is, politicians whose main source of wealth is real estate. We argue that the rise of real estate politicians is situated within deeper processes of ‘labour voter contradictions’ in low-wage democratic societies of the global south. On the one hand, countries like India largely compete in the global economy based on their cheaper…
Resource cities across phases of globalization
Reforms to Pre-Empt Change
Towards a Framework to Determine Backwardness
The decision to carry out a caste-based census in India in order to, among other things, get a more scientific basis for reservations has generated considerable debate. Much of this debate has focused on data quality, without much attention paid to the question of what should be the scientific basis for determining whether a caste is backward. This article explores the concepts used, implicitly or explicitly, in the literatures on caste and reser…
Icons and Reform Politics in India
Reform politics in India reflects an increasing tendency for politicians and others to present themselves as icons of reforms. An analysis of the South Indian state of Karnataka from 1999 to 2001, the initial years of the term of Chief Minister S. M. Krishna, provides us insights into the precise role icons play in the politics of economic reform
Experiential regionalism and political processes in south India
Regional identities have periodically asserted themselves in Indian politics, both before and after Independence. The intensity of this regionalism has, however, tended to vary quite substantially from state to state and over time, ranging from a somewhat benign influence on state politics to demands for secession. These differences are typically explained in terms of specific local political conditions. While the local is undoubtedly important, …
Identity and political choice
The debate on identity politics is typically carried out in ideological terms. The phenomenon is associated with affiliation to a singular identity. The critique of this view is thus based on the argument that identities can be robustly plural and individuals choose to emphasise a particular identity in each situation. In this paper the focus is shifted from the ideologies of identity politics to the actual process through which individuals make …
Underdevelopment and the Theory of Unequal Exchange
Economic Growth and Technological Change in India
Underdevelopment and the Theory of Unequal Exchange
Legislating against Fundamental Change
Reforms to Pre-Empt Change
Indebtedness and the Theory of Agrarian Reform
Icons and Reform Politics in India
Reform politics in India reflects an increasing tendency for politicians and others to present themselves as icons of reforms. An analysis of the South Indian state of Karnataka from 1999 to 2001, the initial years of the term of Chief Minister S. M. Krishna, provides us insights into the precise role icons play in the politics of economic reform
Resource cities across phases of globalization
Gandhi's Concept of Action and Identity Politics
The paradox of Gandhi being treated as an ivory-tower idealist despite being one of the most successful political leaders of the twentieth century, can be traced to his using a method to understand social processes that is fundamentally different from the dominant tendency to reduce reality to an underlying system. The fact that his method did not fit into the ideological systems that dominated the twentieth century contributed to it being ignore…
The Collective Family and Migration Capital
As the debate on the family in India has developed a greater focus on practice, there has been a need to understand the vast diversity of this institution. While such an emphasis on detail is essential, it also tends to take attention away from more comprehensive concepts that are needed to understand processes that cover different types of families. Among these processes is the role the family plays in migration. In this paper we use a field vie…
Reservations, Exclusion, and Conflict
Caste-based reservations (quotas) in government jobs and admissions to educational institutions in India have been associated with bouts of sometimes intense social conflict. The debate about this conflict has focused primarily on the case for and against reservations per se. Even when variations have been noticed in the degree of conflict generated by reservations across regions, the tendency has been to attribute the differences to local social…
Identity and political choice
The debate on identity politics is typically carried out in ideological terms. The phenomenon is associated with affiliation to a singular identity. The critique of this view is thus based on the argument that identities can be robustly plural and individuals choose to emphasise a particular identity in each situation. In this paper the focus is shifted from the ideologies of identity politics to the actual process through which individuals make …
The Situational Dimension of Cash Transfers
The debate on cash transfers has tended to focus on the means of subsidizing the poor, particularly the possibility of reducing leakages in the Public Distribution System (PDS). Following the capabilities approach, this paper focuses on the ends of the policy, looking at cash transfers in terms of the impact on individuals in households. Through a formal statement of the proposed shift in India from a system of food subsidies embodied in the pric…
National Strategies and Local Realities
Despite sporadic attention paid to the case for “shock therapy,” the conceptualization of the implementation stage of policy making does not always get the attention it deserves. As a result there is inadequate understanding of the precise role this conceptualization plays in the transformation of a policy initiative into practice. This article draws on some of the insights of Amartya Sen, in another context, to identify different approaches to t…
Territories beyond geography
Ever since the reorganisation of states in India in 1956, the Central government has reacted to the pressure for the creation of new states on a case-by-case basis, leading to the emergence of new states in fits and starts. But the resistance that is developing to the promise of new states like Telangana suggests that there is no guarantee that newly drawn inter-state boundaries will have universal acceptance. In order to explore ways out of this…
Towards a Framework to Determine Backwardness
The decision to carry out a caste-based census in India in order to, among other things, get a more scientific basis for reservations has generated considerable debate. Much of this debate has focused on data quality, without much attention paid to the question of what should be the scientific basis for determining whether a caste is backward. This article explores the concepts used, implicitly or explicitly, in the literatures on caste and reser…
Searching for Unity in the Diversity of Rural Karnataka
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development
Historical insights into modern corruption
Much of the debate on the relationship between social norms and corruption has been confined to comparisons across countries. But a gap between what is morally acceptable by a society and what is legally correct can exist within individual countries as well. In such cases, it is possible for individual acts of corruption to be seen to be morally justified. This paper explores the emergence of this gap through the imposition of British law on a ve…
Experiential regionalism and political processes in south India
Regional identities have periodically asserted themselves in Indian politics, both before and after Independence. The intensity of this regionalism has, however, tended to vary quite substantially from state to state and over time, ranging from a somewhat benign influence on state politics to demands for secession. These differences are typically explained in terms of specific local political conditions. While the local is undoubtedly important, …
Towards an Asset-based Indicator of Poverty
In the debate on the measurement of poverty in India, which has sometimes bordered on the acrimonious, there has been near unanimity on the use of consumption expenditure as the primary basis for determining the poverty line. This article points to the many limitations of using consumption as the sole indicator of poverty, including ignoring the role of non-market state support. As an alternative, it offers assets as a more reliable indicator of …
Real estate politicians in India
This article uses as its entry point the empirical phenomenon of what we call ‘real estate politicians’ in India; that is, politicians whose main source of wealth is real estate. We argue that the rise of real estate politicians is situated within deeper processes of ‘labour voter contradictions’ in low-wage democratic societies of the global south. On the one hand, countries like India largely compete in the global economy based on their cheaper…
Women and Their Interests in Rural India
There is a substantial and growing recognition of the hazards of treating the interests of women as being homogenous. A variety of sources focus on diversity in the interests of a woman, ranging from bargaining with patriarchy where she is forced to carry out diverse tasks within the household, to the extension of these negotiations elsewhere in her socio-economic reality. These challenges are accentuated at times of wider social transformation. …
The National Bias of India’s First-Past-The-Post System
The relationship between the local and the national in Indian politics has taken a variety of forms, from secessionist tendencies to agitational politics around specific issues. The course of this relationship is typically explored through electoral performance, primarily whether a party wins sufficient seats to form the government. There is much less attention paid to the relationship between votes and seats. This has led to some questions not g…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (8 works) · Geography (7 works)