IMAGINING

Political Futures

Bringing together the best minds to collectively reimagine our political future.

Collaborative Initiatives

Key Research Projects

Multinational ethnographic investigations, consortiums, and comparative politics inquiries across Europe, South Asia, and the Global South.

Reinventing Citizenship

Citizenship And Its Discontents

Citizenship has long been valued as a normative public good. But recent years have seen the concept and its practice plunge into crisis. Citizenship and its discontents collectively examines the crisis experienced by citizens and citizenship and the possible ways in which these crises can be addressed.

Reinventing Citizenship

Reclaiming Citizenship For Democratic Renewal

Reclaiming citizenship for democratic renewal collaboratively explores the real and practical ways in which individuals, organisations and collectives of people have resisted the challenge to democracy and built solidarities to overcome the divisions sowed by authoritarian rulers.

Featured Publication

Audacious Hope: A Chronicle Of How Democracy Is Being Saved In India

As the pillars of democracy crumble across the globe, big and small actions of resistance prop up hope. Audacious Hope documents the struggles waged by ordinary citizens against creeping authoritarianism.

Audio Series

India Tomorrow

7 Episodes
Ep 1 Fake news and the battle for information Listen
Ep 2 The politics of Hindu nationalism Listen
Ep 3 Kashmir Listen
Ep 4 Women, gender and love Listen
Knowledge Repository

Latest Outputs & Media

Browse All 100+ Outputs →
Publication • 2018

Safeguarding Migrant Rights ↗

KumKum Dasgupta

Hindustan Times

Publication • 2017

What Drives Internal Migration In India? ↗

KumKum Dasgupta

Hindustan Times

Publication • 2019

Voting Rights For Migrants ↗

Indrajit Roy

Hindustan Times

Podcast • 2026

Portable Citizenship ↗

Indrajit Roy

BBC Free Thinking

Talk • 2017

Migration Matters ↗

Tanweer Fazal, Ratnakar Tripathy, Amrita Datta

Asian Development Research Institute

Talk • 2014

Short-term Migration And Rural Employment ↗

Clement Imbert, Mrityunjay Mohanty, SM Raju, Indrajit Roy, Alakh Narayan Sharma

Asian Development Research Institute