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If you'd like feedback on a project focused on South Asia, please consider applying to our one-day pre-EPSA workshop. Or just come discuss a paper/chair. Deadline March 1st. shorturl.at/81TLk

The latest issue of Urbanisation includes two book reviews that offer alternative points of view to commonly accepted narratives, as well as a film review of The Archies. Visit bit.ly/3VPTzBF for free access to the reviews all through January 2025.

Join us for a Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Pradeep Chhibber. 📅 Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 🕑 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST 📍 Location: Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St Topic: Shallow Democracy: Political Parties and the Crisis of Representation in India

If you are in Boston/Providence this week, check out this Saxena Center @ Brown book adda with Yamini Aiyar on her new book on Delhi's schools. Can also join via Zoom: watson.brown.edu/southasia/even…

I'm recruiting a PhD student in political economy & comparative political behavior at Ahmedabad University (elections, political parties, federalism, welfare, or climate) We believe in interdisciplinary work & offer great training in models of political economy & applied stats. Pls apply!

Really honored that our 📕 Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness 📗 (Princeton University Press) won the 2025 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from Association for Asian Studies. Tariq Thachil Johns Hopkins SAIS

Congratulations to Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat, @fizzahsajjad and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Lahore in Motion published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3WCuBqI

What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm? africanistperspective.com/p/what-will-be…

Last week the Mortara Center and Professors Diana Kim and @PauliinaPatana, with the help of BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES), hosted the Politics of Social Stratification: Global Perspectives, a workshop aimed at examining the politics of social stratification, inequality, and identity.

New #BookReview by Ran Mei: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang buff.ly/8uRejxi Stanford Press

Sobering. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🌟 The Urban Expansion & the Periphery Framing Paper is live! Preemptive urban planning helps cities harness the benefits of growth. Led by Patrick Lamson-Hall, this research cluster explores the policies and strategies that can guide sustainable, productive urban expansion. More 👇

Presenting a chapter from my book project at U-M Center for Emerging Democracies (thanks to Dan Slater) on the politics and practice of claim-making and accountability systems in Bihar and beyond. The inimitable Yamini Aiyar will be the discussant Register here: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by Ornit Shani and Rohit is out later this year with Cambridge University Press (cover below) and Penguin India cambridge.org/core/books/ass…

Since I've often posted about this project on Twitter, I wanted to share that my job market paper is now forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This paper has been a labor of love and the source of much joy (and frustration). Excited that it found a home!

From our new issue: "Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils" by Adam Auerbach (Adam Auerbach), Shikhar Singh (Shikhar Singh), and Tariq Thachil (Tariq Thachil). #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My review of the book “Migrants and machine politics: How India’s urban poor seek representation and responsiveness” authored by Adam Auerbach & Tariq Thachil gets published in the Journal of Urban Affairs. doi.org/10.1080/073521… Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) Taylor & Francis Research Insights Princeton University Press

Very honored that our book Migrants and Machine Politics is the co-winner of the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize. Many thanks to the award committee. And many congratulations to Sandipto Dasgupta for his fabulous book! 📕📗📘📙 Princeton University Press Tariq Thachil

New article out w/ Tanu Kumar on patchwork formalization, private land developers, and public service provision at the edges of India's cities. ⬇️ Journal of Development Studies (JDS)