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Professor Peter Ronald deSouza
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Indian Institute of Advance Study
Rashtrapati Nivas,
Shimla-171005
Himachal Pradesh
Email: director@iias.org
peter@iias.org
peter@csds.in |
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Peter Ronald deSouza is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and a member of Lokniti. He is currently the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Professor deSouza taught in the Political Science Department
at Goa University for 16 years. He was head of the Department
from 1996 to 2002. He was a member of the International
Political Science Association's Research Committees on
Political Philosophy and Political Sociology and was a
member to the University Grants Commission's expert panel
in political science from 1997 to 2000. Professor deSouza
was awarded the British Council Visitorship to the U.K.
where he made presentations at LSE, SOAS, Warwick and
Sussex University in 1992. In March 2000 he was a Visiting
Professor at Birkbeck College, London University, and
in May 2001 he was a Visiting scholar at the Taubman Centre,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is
a member of the Editorial Committee for Indian Council
for Social Science Research Survey on trends in Political
Science and on the of Indian Journal of Social Science
Review. He was part of the team that did a review of Social
Science Research Capacity in South Asia for the Social
Science Research Council, New York. Professor deSouza
has worked as a consultant to the World Bank on Rural
Decentralisation, to the Ford Foundation on Local government
in India, and to the International Institute of Democracy
and Electoral Assistance (International-IDEA) in preparing
their handbook on Democracy Assessment.
Research Interests:
Prof. deSouza has from the direction of political theory,
engaged with what can be termed as puzzles of Indian democracy
and has published on issues as varied as minorities in
India, multiculturalism and electoral politics among others.
In recent years he has been examining issues of decentralized
democracy in India and has published several articles
on Panchayati Raj. His interests also include the State
politics of Goa. He has just completed a study for the
World Bank on 'Dalits, Discrimination and the Struggle
for Equal Citizenship'.
Selected Publications:
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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'The Struggle for Local Government: Indian Democracy's
New Phase', in Publius, Volume 33, Number
4, Fall 2003, pp. 99-118. |
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'Intellectuals and their Domain', in Economic
and Political Weekly, March 2-8, 2002, pp.
890-2. |
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'Whose Representative?' in Seminar, 506,
October 2001, pp. 57-61. |
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'La vie politique dans l' Etat de Goa (1987-1999)',
in Lusotopie, Lusophonies asiatiques, Asiatiques
en Lusophonies, Karthala, Pris, 2000, pp.
31-46. |
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'Pragmatic Politics in Goa 1987-99' in Economic
and Political Weekly, August 21-28, 1999 pp
2434-2439. Special Issue: Electoral Politics in
India 1989-99. |
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'I partiti e il processo elettorale in India.
Nodi centrali nel dibattito politico corrente',
in L' India Contemporanea, Fondazione Giovanni
Agnelli, Torino, 1998, pp. 115-136. |
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'The idea of the Political : Boundary, Significance
and Agency' in Jyotirmaya Sharma, (ed) The
Idea of the Political, Studies in Humanities
and Social Sciences, Shimla, Vol IV, no 2,
Winter 1997, pp 51-59. |
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'Goa Elections : A Democratic Verdict', Economic
and Political Weekly, January 13-20, 1996. |
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'Living Together, Living Differently', Diversity
Journal, Chowgule College, February 1996. |
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'The Accountability Factor' Seminar, Vol
440, April 1996. |
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'Liberalization and Discourse in 'Natural' Inequality' Indian Journal of Public Administration, July-Sept
1996, no 3, pp 264-267. |
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'The Church and Politics in Goa : Utilitarian
Calculus or Ethical Imperative' in Social Action,
Vol 44, Jan-March 1994. |
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(with Errol D'Souza) 'Restating Arguments on Intellectual
Property Rights' Economic and Political Weekly,
May 26, 1990. |
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'Pluralization of World - Views and Charismatic
Domination' Indian Journal of Social Science,
Volume III, Jan - Mar 1990. |
Articles in Edited Volumes
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'Decentralization and Local Government: the '
Second Wind ' of democracy in India' in Z. Hasan
(et al) India's Living Constitutions: Ideas,
Practices, Controversies, Permanent Black,
New Delhi, 2002. |
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'Appeasement of Minorities' and Multiculturalism
: The Indian Debate', in D.L. Sheth and G. Mahajan
(eds) Minority, Identities and the Nation-State,
Oxford: New Delhi, 1999, pp 206-219. |
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'Democratic Decentralization of Power in India'
in D.D. Khanna & G.W. Kueck,(eds) Principles,
Power and Politics, Macmillan, New Delhi,
1999, pp 136-149. |
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'Religion and Politics: Modern India at the Crossroads'
in A. Ashraf (ed) The Emerging Political Culture
in India, Hira Publications, New Delhi, 1995. |
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'For and Against Participatory Democracy' in Gandhian
Institute of Studies, J.P. and Social Change,
(ed) Nageshwar Prasad, Radiant Press, Varanasi,
1992. |
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'Science, Values and Democratic Theory' in G.
Hermet and H. Trinidade (eds) Paradox of Democracy,
Gian Publishers, New Delhi, 1988. |
Authored Books
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(with
Nistha Desai), Decolonization of Perception:
Media and the Liberation of Goa. (Forthcoming) |
Edited Books
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Contemporary
India: Transitions, Sage, New Delhi, September
2000. |
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(member Scientific Council) Lusophonies asiatiques,
Asiatiques en Lusophonies, Karthala, Paris
Lusotopie, 2000. |
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(with E. Sridharan) Readings in Indian Government
and Politics: Political Parties, Sage, New
Delhi. (Forthcoming) |
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(with Gopal Guru) Dalits and Discrimination,
(Forthcoming) |
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
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SSRC: Social Science Research Capacity in South
Asia, December 2001. |
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December 2001: 'Limited Governance: the Goa
Experience' at symposium on Goan Polity
and Governance: Four Decades of Prospects and
Problems, organized by International Centre,
Goa, 5th December 2001 |
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Forum for Good Governance (Goa): Report Card
on Good Governance, April 2001. |
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October 2001: Presented report on 'Social Science
Research in Western India: An aerial survey' at workshop on Social Science Research Capacity
in South Asia, organized by Social Science
Research Council, New York, at Delhi, 30-31 October
2001 |
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May 2001: Visited the USA for one month under
the Ford Foundation project Democracy and Diversity:
India and the America Experience, coordinated
by Ambassador K. S. Bajpai & UPIASI. Made a presentation
on 'Contemporary India' at Kennedy School
of government, May 18, 2001. |
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September 2000: Presented a paper on 'Decentralization
and Panchayati Raj in India: Pursuing The Holy
Grail of Decentralization' for an international
seminar on Political Reforms in India: Ways
Ahead at Corpus Christi, Oxford, U.K., 17-19
September 2000. |
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World Bank: Overview of Rural Decentralization
in India, September 27, 2000, vols. 1-3 |
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'Concerned Citizens' Report on the Konkan Railway
Project in Goa, May 1992 (with Ligia Noronha) |
Book Reviews
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Reviews
in Sociology, British journal of Sociology, Sociological
Bulletin, The Book Review, Goa Today. |
Professor deSouza has contributed several articles
in local and national newspapers such as: Goa Today, Navhind
Times, Gomantak Times, The Herald, Times of India, and
Frontline. He has also given talks on All India Radio
and at Undergraduate Colleges of Goa University, Naval
Academy, to NGOs such as Peaceful Society, Green Ray Foundation,
and Universities such as Mangalore, Shivaji, Kuvempu,
Mumbai, Pune and at CSDS, New Delhi.
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