D Shyam Babu Editor

Sudha Pai is retired Professor of Political Science, Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests are Dalit Politics, State Politics in India, Agrarian Politics, Globalization and Legislative Governance. She currently heads a research think tank PRAMAN (Policy Research and Management Network) that undertakes research on aspects of Public Policy such as Health, Education, Agriculture and India's foreign policy. D. Shyam Babu is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His research interests are socio-economic mobility among Dalits, liberalisation and social justice, and the role of entrepreneurship in mobility. He collaborated with Devesh Kapur and Chandra Bhan Prasad to conduct socio-economic surveys to map social change and its linkages with public policies, and entrepreneurship among Dalits. Rahul Verma is Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His research interests are voting behaviour, party politics, political violence, and media. He has co-authored Ideology And Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India(Oxford University Press, 2018).