symposium participants

• The Problem
  Posed by Kanchan Chandra, Associate Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, New York

• INDIA'S DEMOCRATIC DYNASTIES
  Kanchan Chandra, Associate Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, and Wamiq Umaira, Research Associate, BRAC Development Institute, Dhaka

• WHAT PRINCELY DEMOCRACY? THE CASE OF THE SCINDIAS
  Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow, CERI-Sciences Po-CNRS, Paris

• THE PLUTOCRACY AND THE PLEBEIANS
  Nyla Ali Khan, former Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney; currently, Visiting Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman

• BUCKING THE TREND
  Saroj Nagi, journalist, Delhi

• DYNASTIES AND CLIENTELISM IN PAKISTAN 
  Raza Ahmad Rumi, public policy adviser, founder of Pakistan Policy Group and Consulting Editor, 'The Friday Times', Lahore

• GOVERNING CULTURE OF THE RULING ELITE IN BANGLADESH
  Manzurul Mannan, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh

• DYNASTIC POLITICS IN SRI LANKA
  Vasuki Nesiah, legal scholar and Assistant Professor of Practice, New York University, New York

• BURMA'S POLITICAL DINOSAURS
  Maung Zarni, Visiting Fellow, Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and founder, Free Burma Coalition, USA

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Yusuf Ansari, Rahul Mukherjee, Radhika Ramasubban and Harsh Sethi

• COMMENT
  The Future 'Class' City by Dunu Roy, Hazards Centre, Delhi; Challenges Facing Indian Democracy by C.P. Bhambhri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; and Flaws in Pro-Nuclear Power Advocacy by Sailendra Nath Ghosh, environmentalist, Delhi

• COMMUNICATION
  Received from Ashutosh Diwan, Maharashtra and Krishna Kumar, Delhi

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