Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies (CSSEIP), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Broadly work in the areas of - Institutions and governance; inequality and politics of development; state-society interrelationships and user/citizen involvement through participatory approaches - Studying inequalities, welfare systems and public policy, ethnic power relations and conflict, local governance, rural service provision, food security, gender and governance, natural resource management, and the political economy of public administration.