Centre for

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) is one of India's leading institutes for research in the social sciences and humanities. CSDS has been known for a critical outlook on received models of development and progress, and is animated by a vision of equality and democratic transformation. Its scholarship has challenged tendencies both in the academy and policy regimes to seek and prescribe standardized pathways to social and political change. It has done this by attending to the patterns of difference, diversity and creativity that emerge from the ways people survive in and reinvent the contemporary world, and generate alternative practices and imaginations. Scholars of political studies and political philosophy, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians, legal and media scholars have populated the Centre over the years, giving it a live interdisciplinary context.