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D. Parthasarathy

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IIT Bombay

Research Areas

  • Urban Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Rural / Agrarian Sociology
  • Law and Governance
  • Legal Pluralism
  • Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
  • Gender and Development
  • Disaster Studies
  • Academic Background

  • Ph.D. in Sociology University of Hyderabad (1995)
  • M.Phil. in Sociology, University of Hyderabad (1990)
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of Hyderabad (1989)
  • B.A. Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad (1987)
  • Publications

    Books and Monographs:

  • Tim Bunnell, D.Parthasarathy, and Eric Thompson, Cleavage, Connection and Conflict: Rural, Urban and Contemporary, ARI-Springer Asia Series, Springer, 2013
  • D.Parthasarathy, T.F.Thekkekara and Veena Poonacha, Women’s Self Help Groups: Restructuring Socio-Economic Development, Dominant Publishers, Delhi, 2011
  • Amit Garg, Ashish Rana, P.R. Shukla, Manmohan Kapshe, D.Parthasarathy, K.Narayanan, and Unmesh Patnaik, “Handbook of Current and Next Generation Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Tools”, Monograph, IDS Sussex BASIC Project, 2007
  • Padmaja R, Bantilan MCS, D. Parthasarathy, and Gandhi BVJ, “Gender and social capital mediated technology adoption” Impact Series No. 12. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2006
  • M.C.S.Bantilan and D. Parthasarathy, “Efficiency and Sustainability Gains from Adoption of Short Duration Pigeonpea in Non-legume based Cropping Systems”, Impact Series No.6, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 1999.
  • D. Parthasarathy, Collective Violence in a Provincial City, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.
  • Journals and Book Chapters:

  • Swami, Deepika, Prashant Dave, and Devanathan Parthasarathy. “Agricultural susceptibility to monsoon variability: A district-level analysis of Maharashtra, India.” Science of the Total Environment 619 (2018): 559-577.
  • Parthasarathy, D. “Global Flows or Rural-Urban Connections? Temporality, Public Spaces and Heterotopias in Globalising Mumbai.” In N.Jayaram ed. Social Dynamics of the Urban, pp. 33-59. Springer, New Delhi, 2017
  • Hemant Kumar Chouhan, D.Parthasarathy, and S. Pattanaik, “Urban Development, Environmental Vulnerability and CRZ Violations in India: Impacts on Fishing Communities and sustainability implications in Mumbai Coast”, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 19, 3, 2017: 971-985
  • Chouhan, H. A., Parthasarathy, D., & Pattanaik, S. (2018). Urban at the Edges: Mumbai’s Coastline Urbanisms. In Jenia Mukherjee ed. Sustainable Urbanization in India (pp. 279-293). Springer, Singapore.
  • Singh, N., Parthasarathy, D., & Narayanan, N. C. (2018). Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur. In Jenia Mukherjee ed. Sustainable Urbanization in India (pp. 295-317). Springer, Singapore
  • Sharma, Sneha, and D. Parthasarathy. “Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations around Waste in Mumbai.” In Jenia Mukherjee ed. Sustainable Urbanization in India, pp. 207-223. Springer, Singapore, 2018
  • Chatterjee, Dwiparna, and D. Parthasarathy. “Gentrification and Rising Urban Aspirations in the Inner City: Redefining Urbanism in Mumbai.” In Jenia Mukherjee ed. Sustainable Urbanization in India, pp. 239-255. Springer, Singapore, 2018.
  • Hemant Kumar Chouhan, D.Parthasarathy, and S. Pattanaik, “Coastal Ecology and Fishing Community in Mumbai: CRZ Policy, Sustainability and Livelihoods”, Economic and Political Weekly, 51, 39, 2016: 48-57
  • Smita Pendharkar and D.Parthasarathy, “Pandharpur’s Wari: a discursive terrain for Maharashtra’s productive castes”, Asian Journal of Social Science, 44,1-2, 2016, 132 – 164
  • D.Parthasarathy, “Decentralization, Pluralization, Balkanization? Challenges for Disaster Mitigation and Governance in Mumbai”, Habitat International,52, 2016, 26-34
  • Sherly M. A., Subhankar Karmakar, D. Parthasarathy, Terence Chan, Christian Rau, “Disaster-Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area – An Application to Mumbai, India”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105, 6, 2015: 1198-1220
  • D. Parthasarathy, “Informality, Resilience, and the Political Implications of Disaster Governance”, Special on ‘Governing Floods in Asia’s Urban Transition’, Pacific Affairs, 88, 3, 2015: 551-575
  • Sheila Bonde, Clyde Briant, Paul Firenze, Julianne Hanavan, Amy Huang, Min Li, N. C. Narayanan, D. Parthasarathy, Hongqin Zhao, “Making Choices: Ethical Decisions in a Global Context”, Science and Engineering Ethics, Online First, 12 May 2015, DOI 10.1007/s11948-015-9641-5.
  • D. Parthasarathy,“The Poverty of (Marxist) Theory: Peasant Classes, Provincial Capital, and the Critique of Globalization in India”, Journal of Social History, 48, 4, 2015
  • Baghel, Deepmala, D. Parthasarathy, and M. Gupta. “Will you walk into my parlor? Spaces and practices of beauty in Mumbai,” South Asian Popular Culture 12.3 (2014): 163-179
  • “Rural, Urban, and Regional: Re-spatializing Capital and Politics in India”, in Tim Bunnell, D.Parthasarathy, and Eric Thompson, Cleavage, Connection and Conflict: Rural, Urban and Contemporary, ARI-Springer Asia Series, Springer, 2013, 15-30
    Eric C Thompson, Tim Bunnell, and D. Parthasarathy, “Place, Society and Politics across Urban and Rural Asia” in Tim Bunnell, D.Parthasarathy, and Eric Thompson, Cleavage, Connection and Conflict: Rural, Urban and Contemporary, ARI-Springer Asia Series, Springer, 2013, 1-14
  • “Risk, vulnerability and resilience: climate change and the urban poor in Asia”, in “Human Security and Climate Change in Southeast Asia”, eds., Lorraine Elliott, Mely Caballero-Anthony. Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series, 2012 “After Reservations: Caste, Institutional Isomorphism, and Affirmative Action in the IITs”, in “Equalizing Access: Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India, US, and South Africa”, eds., Zoya Hasan and Martha C. Nussbaum, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2011
  • “Hunters, Gatherers, and Foragers in a Metropolis: Commonizing the Private and Public in Mumbai”, Economic and Political Weekly, 46, 50, December 2011
  • “Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri Cinema and the Global in the Local”, in Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat eds., Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2011
  • “A Village Without Moneylenders: SHGs Economic Change, and the Restructuring of Social Relations”, in D.Parthasarathy, T.F.Thekkekara and Veena Poonacha eds., “Women’s Self Help Groups: Restructuring Socio-Economic Development”, Dominant Publishers, India, 2011
  • “Planning and the Fate of Democracy: State, Capital, and Governance in Post-Independence India”, in Vincent Kelly Pollard ed., “Wrestling with the Leviathan: State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change”, Brill, Leiden, 2011
  • Christoph Eberhard, D. Parthasarathy, and Shujie Feng), “Globalisation en Chine et en Inde”, in Arnaud Andre-Jean ed. Dictionnaire de la Globalisation, Droit – Science politique, Paris, LGDJ, 538 p (246-251), 2010
  • Binti Singh and D.Parthasarathy, “Civil Society Organisation Partnerships in Urban Governance: An Appraisal of the Mumbai Experience”, Sociological Bulletin”, Vo.59, No.1, Jan-April 2010
  • Upasna Sharma, Anand Patwardhan, and D.Parthasarathy, “Assessing adaptive capacity to tropical cyclones in the East coast of India: A pilot study of public response to cyclone warning information”, Climatic Change, 94, 2009, p.189-209
  • Neetu Chowdhary and D. Parthasarathy, “Is Migration Status a Determinant of Urban Nutrition Insecurity? Empirical Evidence from Mumbai City in India”, Journal of Biosocial Science, 41, 2009
  • “Social and Environmental Insecurities in Mumbai: Towards a sociological perspective on vulnerability”, South African Review of Sociology, 40, 1, 2009
  • The Antinomies of Modernity and Sustainability? Developing an Indian Perspective on Governance and Responsibility, in Christoph Eberhard (dir.), Traduire nos responsabilites planetaires: Recomposer nos paysages juridiques, Bruxelles, Bruylant, Col. Bibliotheque de l’Academie, Europeenne de Theorie du Droit, 2009
  • R. Shubha, Tanmay Bhattacharya, D. Parthasarathy, and Meenakshi Gupta, “Spirit possession in a healing center: View from within”, Psychological Studies, 53 (3 & 4), 2008, 219-225
  • Neetu Chowdhary and D. Parthasarathy, “Gender, Work, and Household Food Security”, Economic and Political Weekly, 42, 5, 2007
  • “Land laws, minerals, and development: A case for legislative innovations”, in Christoph Eberhard (ed.), “Law, Land use and the Environment: Afro-Indian Dialogues”, IFP, Pondichery, 2007.
  • Binti Kanta and D. Parthasarathy, “Slums, Rehabilitation and Government Policy: The case of the Slum Rehabilitation Programme in Mumbai”,The ICFAI Journal of Urban Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35-50, April 2006.
  • Taking Participation Seriously: A Critique of ‘Good Governance’, in Christoph Eberhard (Guest Edited), Droit, gouvernance et developpement durable, Cahier d’anthropologie du Droit, Paris, 2005.
  • Rowena Robinson and D. Parthasarathy, “After Gujarat: Making Sense of Reports on the Post-Godhra Violence and its • Aftermath”, in Ram Puniyani ed.Religion, Power and Violence: Expression of Politics in Contemporary Times, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005.
  • “Shifting Fields of Legitimacy: Globalization and Resistance in a Historical Perspective”, Special Issue on Legal Pluralism in India, of the Indian Socio-legal Journal on Legal Pluralism, 31, (special), 2005.
  • Courses Taught

    Undergraduate

  • Contemporary Urban India.
  • Perspectives in Social Sciences (Introductory Module on Sociology).
  • Introduction to Sociology.
  • Environmental Studies.
  • Post-graduate

  • Development, Planning and Policies in India: Issues and Alternatives.
  • Science and Technology in India’s Development.
  • Socio-psychological approaches to Development and Change.
  • Law, Rights, Governance and Development.
  • Research Methodology.
  • Computer-aided applied statistics.
  • Advanced theory of society.
  • Sociology of Social Stratification in India.
  • Communication Skills.
  • Making Choices: Ethical Issues in Scientific Endeavour.