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Rajeshwari Deshpande
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Department of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Pune,
Pune 411007
Telephone Nos.
Dept 020-25690815
Res. 020-25441237
Email- rajeshwarid@unipune.ernet.in
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Rajeshwari Deshpande is Reader in the department
of Politics and Public Administration University
of Pune. She joined the Department in 1997 after
completing her Ph.D. As a part of her Ph. D. work,
Dr. Deshpande analysed the thought of Achraya
Javdekar- a Gandhian intellectual from colonial
Maharashtra- to understand his simultaneous appropriations
of Marx and Gandhi for social emancipation in
the Indian context.
Dr. Deshpande has been teaching courses on Indian
Politics, Constitutional Process in India, Indian
and Western Political Thought, Marxist Political
Sociology, Class and on Women and Politics.
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a part of her research Dr Deshpande continued
to work on political thinking in 19th and 20th
century Maharashtra and has also taken up issues
related to Maharashtra’s political process, regional
political economy, rise of the urban centres and
caste class situation and more specifically issues
related to politics of the poor. She has completed
research projects on politics of the urban informal
sector workers, life and politics in slums and
more recently on the role of caste associations
in contemporary Indian politics.
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Deshpande has been associated with the Lokniti
network since 1996 and worked on issues related
to women’s vote using the NES series data. She
was a part of the group of scholars from India
who attempted a qualitative assessment of working
of Indian democracy as a part of the SDSA project
of the Lokniti and assessed the working of the
state institutional domain in India. She participated
in the two summer workshops on research methodology
analyzing quantitative data in Indian politics
jointly organized by the Lokniti and the IIAS,
Shimla in 2007 and 2008. |
Dr Deshpande coordinates the activities
of the Regional centre of the Lokniti at Pune.
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working on a book project- caste, class and the
city where the current social profile of the city
of Pune will be discussed. |
Select Publications: |
Articles in refereed/professional journals
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Patterns of Occupational
Mobility: How Much Does Caste matter?, with Suhas
Palshikar, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
43, No. 34, 23-29 August 2008, pp 61-70. |
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How much Does the City Help
Dalits? Life of Dalits in Pune: Overview of a
Century, in Indian Journal of Social Work, Vol
68, Issue1, Jan-March 2007, pp130-151. |
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Maharashtra: Politics of
Anxieties, Frustrations and Outrage, Economic
and Political Weekly, vol.41, No. 14, April 8-14,
2006, pp 1304-07. |
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How Gendered was Women’s
Participation in Elections 2004? , Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No.51, 18-24 Dec 2004,
pp 5431-5436. |
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Maharashtra: Challenges before
the Congress System, with Suhas Palshikar, Journal
of Indian School of Political Economy, vol 15
Jan-Jun 2003, No.1 and 2, pp97-122 |
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Organising the Unorganised
: The Case of Hamal Panchayat, Economic and Political
Weekly, vol 34, no. 39, Sept25-Oct1 1999, pp-L19-L26. |
Articles in edited books
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Bhakti Marg Becomes Shakti
Marg: Tale of A Devsthan in Maharashtra, with
Suhas Palshikar, in M. Naito and others (ed.),
Marg: Ways of Liberation, empowerment and Social
Change in Maharashtra, Manohar, New Delhi, 2008,
pp 357-380. |
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Social Movements in Crisis?
in Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palshikar (ed), Indian
Democracy Meanings and Practices, Sage Publications,
New Delhi, 2004, pp379-409 |
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Inevitability and Inadequacy
of Caste: Some Dilemmas for Mobilisation of Backward
Classes, in B.V.Bhosale( ed), Mobilisation of
Backward Communities in India, Deep and Deep Publications,
New Delhi, 2004, pp 200-216. |
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Satyagraha as Krantishastra:
Reading Gandhi with Javdekar, in Peter D’Souza
and Rajaram Tolpady (ed), From Thought to theory:
Engaging with Modern Indian Political Thought,
Orient Longman, Forthcoming |
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Satyagraha : Linking Moral
with Political, in S.N.Datye(ed), Rethinking Mahatma
Gandhi, Kalinga Publications, Delhi, 2000, pp
91-108. |
Monographs/ working papers
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State and Democracy in India:
Strategies of Accommodation and Manipulation,
Occasional Paper, series III, no.4, Dept of Politics,
University of Pune, August 2005 |
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Informal Sector Workers
in Pune City: Four Narratives, DSA, Department
of Politics and Public Administration, University
of Pune, 2003. |
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Pune: from City to metropolis,
Exploratory study no 1, DSA, Department of Politics
and Public Administration, University of Pune,
2001. |
Book reviews
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Review of India’s Living
Constitution, edited by Zoya Hasan and others
in Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol 38,
nos 1 and 2, 2004. |
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Working of the Indian Party
System, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.40,
No 42, Oct 15-21, 2005, pp 4527-29. |
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Review of Reservations for
Women, edited by Meena Dhanda, in Seminar, June
2008. |
Dr Deshpande
has written over ten articles in Marathi for journals
and magazines and contributes to Marathi newspapers.
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