Chandan Gowda is Professor and Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru. After completing his PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he took up the position of Associate Professor of Sociology at the National Law School of India, Bengaluru and later served as Professor of Sociology at Azim Premji University, Bengalur, and Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His areas of research include social theory, cultural and political sociology, Indian intellectual history, and modern Kannada literature and cinema.

• 1: Revisiting the Developmental State 2: The World of Mysore 3: The Colonial Roots of Development 4: Birmingham in Mysore: The Cultural Life of an Iron Plant 5: "In the Fulness of Time": Improving Villages, Modernizing Agriculture 6: An Episode in Dissent 7: Plural Futures

Chandan Gowda is Professor and Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru. After completing his PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he took up the position of Associate Professor of Sociology at the National Law School of India, Bengaluru and later served as Professor of Sociology at Azim Premji University, Bengalur, and Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His areas of research include social theory, cultural and political sociology, Indian intellectual history, and modern Kannada literature and cinema.

• 1: Revisiting the Developmental State 2: The World of Mysore 3: The Colonial Roots of Development 4: Birmingham in Mysore: The Cultural Life of an Iron Plant 5: "In the Fulness of Time": Improving Villages, Modernizing Agriculture 6: An Episode in Dissent 7: Plural Futures

Chandan Gowda is Professor and Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru. After completing his PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he took up the position of Associate Professor of Sociology at the National Law School of India, Bengaluru and later served as Professor of Sociology at Azim Premji University, Bengalur, and Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His areas of research include social theory, cultural and political sociology, Indian intellectual history, and modern Kannada literature and cinema.

• 1: Revisiting the Developmental State 2: The World of Mysore 3: The Colonial Roots of Development 4: Birmingham in Mysore: The Cultural Life of an Iron Plant 5: "In the Fulness of Time": Improving Villages, Modernizing Agriculture 6: An Episode in Dissent 7: Plural Futures