Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India

Amiya Kumar Das is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam. His research interests include Governance and Development, Sociology of Health, and Illness. Some of his recent publications include Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in the Social Sphere (co-edited, 2019), Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City (co-edited, 2021), Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast (co-edited, 2021). He is also interested in sustainable farming and is a collaborator in the Feeding City Lab project at the University of Toronto.

• Sociology of Governance and the Grassroots of Democracy.- Locating the State, Power and Governance in the Social Sphere.- Seeing Like a Citizen: People’s Everyday Engagement with the State and Governance.- Documenting the Body: Paper Citizenship and Entitlements.- Enchanting Elections: Performing Magic and Enacting Citizenships.- Corporatization of the State in the Neoliberal Era.- Conclusion: The Beginning of A New Governance.