THE RISE OF POPULISM AND DECLINE IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
A first-of-its-kind history and analysis of social research in India from Independence to the present, this book discusses India’s most important research projects and the policies based on them. This includes the family planning programme, the five-year plans and the decennial census. The book is forthright. “With political parties dominating policies, there has been a greater emphasis on winning elections. This concern has become the priority for research,” writes N Bhaskara Rao. The Third Eye of Governance is a valuable investigation of public policy successes and failures of governments led by different PMs, from Nehru and Indira Gandhi to Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi.