Public Lecture: "Reading Subramania Bharati under Progressive Eye: Literary Criticism and the Cultural Left in Tamilnadu" by Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, 11 December 2024, Wednesday, 3:30 PM.

About MIDS

The Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) was founded by Dr. Malcolm S Adiseshiah and Mrs. Elizabeth Adiseshiah, in January 1971, shortly after Dr.Adiseshiah's retirement as Deputy Director-General of UNESCO. In 1977, MIDS was reconstituted...

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The environment for achieving development objectives has become complex today. Technological changes and changes in social and political institutions have altered the nature of interventions required to achieve development goals. At the same time, these changes have also presented new opportunities...

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Recent Publications

A Remembered Village, A Remembered Town Socio-economic Changes in Western Tamil Nadu

S. Neelakantan

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Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

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நவசெவ்வியல் பொருளியல்

எஸ். நீலகண்டன்

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Environmental Politics at the Local: Natural Resource Governance in India

Satyajit Singh and Ajit Menon

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