symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• TRANSITIONS, STAGNATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
  Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and Suhas Palshikar, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Pune

• WHY IS DEMOCRACY IN INDIA SO VIOLENT?
  Kanchan Chandra, Associate Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

• NEW TIMES IN TAMIL NADU
  M.S.S. Pandian, Professor, Department of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• REGIME CHANGE IN THE OFFING?
  Rajat Roy, journalist and political commentator, Kolkata

• RISK OF DURABLE DISORDER
  Subir Bhaumik, East Indian Correspondent, BBC, Kolkata

• BRAVE MOVES, HEAVY ODDS
  C. Gouridasan Nair, Senior Assistant Editor, 'The Hindu', Thiruvananthapuram

• DESCENT INTO DEMOCRATIC DECADENCE
  M.V. Rajeev Gowda, Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

• LIMITS OF DOMINANT CASTE POLITICS
  Suhas Palshikar, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Pune University

• POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE
  K.C. Suri, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of  Hyderabad

• THE SUMMER OF UNREST
  Rekha Chowdhary, Professor of Political Science, Jammu University

• THE LONG ROAD TO NOOTAN BIHAR
  Vandita Mishra, Senior Editor, Politics, 'The Indian Express', Delhi

• VARIETIES OF COMPARATIVE STATE POLITICS RESEARCH IN INDIA
  K. K. Kailash, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh

• THE GREAT TRANSFORMATIONS OF INDIAN STATES
  Patrick Heller, Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

• REPORT
  Electoral politics in Indian states by Ashutosh Kumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh

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