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Professor D. L. Sheth
Location
Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy,
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 29
Rajpur Road,
Delhi - 110 054
Phone Numbers
Department: 011 - 23942199 Extn.: 213
Email: dlsheth@csdsdelhi.org |
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D.L.
Sheth is Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). He served as the
director of CSDS from 1984 to 1987. Professor Sheth
has been the Editor of the journal Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political since 1986. He was
the founder director of Lokayan a Project on
Development, Decentralization and Democracy (1980-82)
and Chair Person for the terms 1983-85, 1988-90 and
1992-94. He was appointed to the National
Commission for Backward Classes as a Social
Scientist member (1993-96) and served a
president of Delhi Peoples Union for Civil
Liberties (PUCL).
Professor Sheth joined the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies in 1964 prior to which he was Lecturer in
the Faculty of Social Work at MSU, Baroda. He was
Project Director & Co-Investigator for the project
on International Studies of Values and Politics
(1965-69). The International Social Science Research
Council sponsored the same. The project undertook a
comparative study of local leadership across four
nations: India, Poland, U.S.A. and Yugoslavia. He was
also a member of the Board of Consultants, Comparative Political Studies, (1972-78) and a member of the
Planning Commission Task Force on Family Planning in
1973. Professor DL Sheth was Charles Wallace Visiting
Fellow to the University of Hull U.K. in Summer, 1988
and Visiting Professor to the International University
of Japan (IUJ), Spring Semester, 1989.
Research interests
Professor Sheths broad area of interest has been Political
Sociology and Comparative Politics, Politics of
Globalisation and Global Governance, Caste, New Social
Movements and Politics of Social Stratification.
Professor Sheths current work is focused on
political theory of caste, making of the middle class,
New socio-cultural formations and the Nation-State,
Globalisation and the Future of Indian Democracy?,
Issues of Global Governance, Study of social policies
with a focus on Reservations/Affirmative Action and
Minority Rights. He has contributed to the 2004 Human
Development Report on Cultural Liberty in Todays
Diverse World.
Selected Publications
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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"Globalization
and the New Politics of Micro-Movements", Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January
3, 2004. |
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"Caste,
Ethnicity and Exclusion in South Asia", a background
paper prepared for the UNDP, Human Development
Report 2004. |
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Khote
Sabit ho Rahe he Chhote Sardar (in Hindi), Rashtirya
Sahara-Hastakshep, September 9, 2002. |
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Globalization
and the Future of Democracy in Denouement (special
number on A Decade of Globalization) vol. 12,
June 2002. |
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Ram
Bhakton ko Dena Hoga Chaudah baras ka Vanvas
(in Hindi), Rashtirya Sahara-Hastakshep,
April 13, 2002. |
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Politics of Communal Polarisation: A Precursor
to Gujarat Carnage, Manushi,No. 129,
2002. |
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Gujarat Dango ko Samajhne ke Liye Hastakshape
(in Hindi), Rashtriya Sahara, March 9,
2002. |
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Satahi Dharm Nirpekshata ka Hashr, Jansatta (in Hindi), May 19, 2001. |
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Caste in the Mirror of Race, Seminar,
508, December 2001. |
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"Secularization of Caste and the Making
of New Middle Class", Economic and Political
Weekly, Nos. 34-35, Vol. 34, August 21-28,
1999. |
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Globalisation and the Grassroots Movements, Seminar, Annual Number, 473, January
1999. |
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Democracy
and Globalization in India: Post Cold War
Discourse, The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, (540),
July 1995. |
Articles in Edited Volumes
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Poverty
and Development, in Ponna Wignaraja (ed.), Articulating
a Coherent Development Alternative for South
Asia (forthcoming). |
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Swadhyaya:
Recovery of Self and Making of a Community in
Rajiv Vora, ed., Swadhyaya: An Overview (forthcoming) |
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"The
Crisis of Political Authority" in Rajendra Vora
& Suhas Palshikar (eds.), Indian Democracy:
Meanings and Practices, Sage, Delhi, 2004. |
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"Growth
of Communal Polarization in Gujarat: The Making
of a Hindutva Laboratory?" in Sandeep Pendse
(ed.), Lessons from Gujarat, Vikas Adhyayan
Kendra, Mumbai 2003. |
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Expectations
as a Measure of Performance: Dilemmas Facing
the Voluntary Sector in Anuradha Maharishi and
Rasna Dhillon (eds.), A Common Cause: NGOs
and Civil Society, (National Foundation
for India, 2002.) |
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Gair
Daliton ki Nazar Mein Dalit: Vigyanik aur
Nirapeksh Drishti ki Samasya (in Hindi), in
Abhay Kumar Dubey (ed.), Adhunikta ke Aaeene
Mein Dalit,
Vani Prakashan, Delhi, 2002, pp. 106-194. |
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(with
Vijay Pratap and Ritu Priya) Making Institutions
Compatible with Southern Movements' Aspirations
for a Democratic Order: A Minimalist Pespective
in Leena Rikkila and Katarina Sehm Potomaki
(eds.), From a Global Market Place to Political
Spaces: NIGD working paper 1/2002, Hakapaino,
Helsinki, Finland-2002. |
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Micromovimentos
na India: para Uma Nova Politica de democracia
participative (in Portugese), in Boaventura
de Sousa Santos (ed.), Democratizar A Democracia:
os Caminhos Da Democracia Participativa,
(Civilizcao Brazileria, Rio de Janerio 2002. |
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Nae
Madhyavarg ka Uday: Jati Vyavastha, Varg-Rachna
aur Loktantrik Rajneeti (in Hindi), Abhay Kumar
Dube (ed.) in Lok Tantra ke Sat Adhyay,
Vani Prakshan 2002, pp. 91-119. |
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Caste
and Secularization Process in India, in Peter
R. Desouza (ed.), Contemporary India-Transitions,
New Delhi: Sage, 2000. |
Edited Books
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(ed.
with Gurpreet Mahajan), Minority Identities
and the Nation State, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1999. |
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(ed. with Ashis Nandy), The Multiverse of
Democracy: (New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1996). |
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(ed.), Citizens and Parties: Aspects of Competitive
Politics in India (New Delhi: Allied, 1975). |
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(with
others), Values and the Active Community (Glencoe: Free Press, 1971). |
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
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Micromovements
and Participative Democracy, paper presented
at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, November
23, 2000. |
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