Lokniti is a research programme of the CSDS established in 1997. It houses a cluster of research initiatives that seeks to engage with national and global debates on democratic politics by initiating empirically grounded yet theoretically oriented...

The Sarai programme at CSDS has arguably been South Asia’s most prominent and productive platform for research and reflection on the transformation of urban space and contemporary realities, especially with regard to the interface between cities...

The Indian Languages Programme (ILP) epitomises the long nurtured belief of the founders of CSDS that a planned and well thought-out shift towards a non-English register will not merely constitute a change in the mode of expression, but it will al...

The Parekh Institute of Indian Thought was set up in 2013 with the help of a generous endowment from Nirman Foundation. The institute’s objective is to study the past and present moral, social and political thought of India and to share its deli...