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The Department is collaborating with the Centre for the Study of Developing Studies, Delhi, on a programme of research on social stratification and electoral behaviour.
The research is based on the series of nationally representative sample surveys of the Indian electorate. These surveys have been co-ordinated by a team from the CSDS (led by Dr V. B. Singh, Yogendra Yadav and Sanjay Kumar) and have been conducted by research teams in the individual states. Work in progress includes a study of trends over time in social mobility and on the interrelationship between class and caste in India (with Sanjay Kumar), on scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (Alistair Macmillan) and on political change in India (with Yogendra Yadav). Papers have already been published in the Economic and Political Weekly on the social bases of support for Congress and for the BJP.
This programme of research is supported by the British Academy.
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