Including the Excluded in South Asia

Madhushree Sekher is Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Institutions, political economy of representation, governance, inclusive development and policy implementation are her core research interests. Her current research is on institutions for food security, inequalities and social welfare systems, and democratic representation in India. She has been a recipient of the Australian Research Council (Discovery) Grant, and grants from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Indian Council for Social Science Research and Sir Ratan Tata Trust. She is currently associated with an international research consortium to study ethnic power relations funded by Swiss Development Council and Swiss National Science Foundation. She was a Visiting Faculty at IFPRI-¬‐Washington, and Universities of Hohenheim, Sydney and Alberta, and at Cornell University. Author of many research articles and books, including ‘Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlements and Capabilities’ (Earthscan, 2013 and ‘Governance and Governed: Multi-¬‐Country Perspectives on State, Society and Development (Springer, 2017), she has a PhD in Political Science from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, and was recipient of World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowship for post-doctoral research. Radu Carciumaru is Head of CrossCulture Programme at ifa (Institute for Foreign Policy, Germany) and associated researcher at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. Prior to joining ifa, Radu Carciumaru acted as Resident Representative/Head of Heidelberg University’s New Delhi Branch Office and governing board member of the German Centre for Research and Innovation New Delhi, for over four years. Radu Carciumaru holds a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University and has several publications on institutional design in plural societies, conflict negotiation, prevention and management.He is board member of the Research Committee Politics and Ethnicity (RC14) of the International Political Science Association (RC 14), co-founder of APSA foundation and Sri Lanka Working Group, fellow of South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF, Brussels), research fellow of the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, member of the editorial board of Politex (St Petersburg State University, Russia), former managing editor of the Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (2010-2016), as well as former research fellow at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University. His areas of expertise include institutional design in plural societies, power sharing and negotiation theories, ethnic conflict regulation, international and regional cooperation, comparative politics and political economy.

Introduction: Why is Social Exclusion? A Cross-Country Perspective.- Part 1. Contextualizing Social Exclusion/Inclusion.- Chapter 2. – Inclusion and Marginalization: Concepts and Measures.- Chapter 3. - Persisting Ethnic Tensions in Sri Lanka: Towards a Structural Analysis.- Chapter 4. Social Inclusion/ Exclusion Policy Discourse in Nepal.- Part 2 Inequality and Politics of Inclusion.- Chapter 5. State and Muslims in India : Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion.- Chapter 6. Constitutional Reforms in Sri Lanka: From Majoritarian Control System to Integration and Accommodation?.- Chapter 7 Politics of Public Policy in India: Institutional Internalization of Inequality and Exclusion in Policy Legislation.- Part 3. State, Institutions and Representation.- Chapter 8. Democratic Participation in Bangladesh: Does it Vary Across Ethnicity, Religion and Gender.- Chapter 9. Democratic institutions in Sri Lanka’s local level politics: Challenges to Social Inclusion.- Chapter 10. Intricacies of Nation-States and Incidences of Exclusion.- Part 4. Governance Systems and Opportunities for Inclusion.- Chapter 11. Right to Information: A Viable Institution? Emerging Politics of Accountability.- Chapter 12. Land Alienation and Threats to Livelihoods of Indigenous Populations.- Chapter 13. Manual Scavengers: A Blind Spot in Urban Development Discourse.- Chapter 14. Diversity in Higher Education in India.- Chapter 15. Institutional Responses to Exclusion and Poverty in Highlands.