Working Papers
2011 - Till date
- Abhishek Anand, Arvind Subramanian, Naveen Thomas, Multiplying Multi-Plants and Large Plant Size: Consequences, Costs and Rationale", MIDS Working Paper No. 244.
- Kripa Ananthpur, Julie de Jong, Gargi Sridharan and Bhavya Shrivastava,, How Good is Your Data?—Challenges of Ensuring Data Quality in a Large-Scale Survey: Lessons from the Tamil Nadu Household Panel Survey (TNHPS), MIDS Working Paper No. 243.
- L Venkatachalam, Economic Valuation of Wetland Ecosystem Services: Current Status and the Way Forward, MIDS Working Paper No. 242.
- Kripa Ananthpur, K Jafar, Gargi Sridharan and L Venkatachalam, Impact of the COVID-19 waves on Tamil Nadu's Economy and Society, Working Paper No. 241.
- Sujata Patel, Social Theory Today: Eurocentrism and Decolonial Theory, December 2020, Working Paper No. 240.
- A. Kalaiyarasan, Structural Change in Tamil Nadu, 1980–2010: Limits of Subnational Development, September 2020, Working Paper No. 239.
- Krishanu Pradhan, Growth-Maximising Fiscal Rule Targets in India, Working Paper No. 238.
- Chandra Mallampalli, Re-examining Cultural Accommodation and Difference in the Historiography of South Indian Catholicism, Working Paper No. 237.
- Umanath Malaiarasan, K. Thomas Felix, and R. Paramasivam, Households' Energy Choice and Demand in Tamil Nadu, Working Paper No. 236.
- K. Sivasubramaniyan, Water Management of Two Major System Tanks according to Mamulnamas, September 2019, Working Paper No. 235.
- Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan, Meritocracy in the Face of Group Inequality, June 2019, Working Paper No. 234.
- M. Vijayabaskar and P.K. Viswanathan, Emerging Vulnerabilities in India’s Tea Plantation Economy: A Critical Engagement with Policy Response, April 2019, Working Paper No. 233.
- Ajit Menon and Nitin D Rai, Making Nature Legible: The Social and Political Consequences of Economic Valuation of Tiger Reserves, January 2019, Working Paper No. 232.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South: Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topical Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Challenges of Planetary Realisations,September 2018, Working Paper No. 231.
- A.R. Venkatachalapathy, A Magic System? Print Publics, Consumption, and Advertising in Modern Tamilnadu,, June 2018, Working Paper No. 230.
- Karen Pechilis, Conjectural History of Cultural Ideas of Women and Work in Urban South India, June 2018, Working Paper No. 229.
- Krishna Kumar, Universal Schooling and Equality: Right to Education under a Post-Welfare State, June 2018. Working Paper No. 228.
- Parthasarathi Shome, Goods and Services Tax (GST), October 2017, Working Paper No. 227.
- Srinath Raghavan, The Imperialism of Anti-Imperialism The United States and India in the Second World War, August 2017, Working Paper No. 226.
- Ajit Menon and Manasi Karthik, Sedentarising Conservation: The Politics of Belonging and Rootedness in Gudalur, Nilgiris, October 2017, Working Paper No. 225.
- K. Sivasubramaniyan, Performance of Irrigation in Tamil Nadu: A Macro Perspective, December 2016, Working Paper No. 224.
- M. Vijayabaskar and Ajit Menon, Dispossession by Neglect: Agricultural Land Sales in the Periphery of Chennai, 2016, Working Paper No: 223.
- TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan, India's Monetary Policy in a Political Context (1835-2003) RBI and the Quest for Autonomy, 2016, Working Paper No: 222.
- S. Anandhi, Gender and Commodity Aesthetics in Tamilnadu, 1950-1970, 2015, Working Paper No: 221.
- L. Venkatachalam and Jayanthi M., Estimating the Economic Value of Ecosystem Services of Pallikaranai Marsh in Chennai City: A Contingent Valuation Approach 2016, Working Paper No. 220.
- K. Srinivasan and M.S. Selvan, Governance and Development in India: A Review of Studies and Suggestions for Further Research 2015, Working Paper No. 219.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations, 2015, Working Paper No. 218.
- L. Venkatachalam, Water Acquisition for Urban Use from Irrigation Tanks: Can Payment for Ecosystem Services Produce a Win-Win Outcome?, 2014, Working Paper No: 217.
- K. Srinivasan, Family Planning Programs in India: An Overview and Need for a Revision, 2014, Working Paper No: 216.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, With and Beyond Plurality of Standpoints: Sociology and the Sadhana of Multi-Valued Logic and Living, 2011, Working Paper No: 215.
- L Venkatachalam, Tradable Water Rights and Pareto Optimal Water Allocation in Agriculture: Results from a Field Experiment in Bhavani Basin, Tamil Nadu, 2011, Working Paper No: 214.
- Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati, Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Learning from Impact and Vulnerability Literature, 2011, Working Paper No: 213.
- B. S. Sumalatha, Spot and Futures Markets of Agricultural Commodities in India: Analysis of Price Integration and Volatility, 2011, Working Paper No: 212.
- Padmini Swaminathan, Employment and Maternity Protection: Understanding Poor Coverage of Beneficial Legislation through Content Analysis of Some Judgments, 2011, Working Paper No: 211
2010 - 2006
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Rethinking the Human and the Social: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations, 2010, Working Paper No: 210
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Knowing Together in Compassion and Confrontation: The Calling of Transformative Knowledge, 2010, Working Paper No: 209
- M. Arivalagan, Self" rather than the "Other": Towards a Subjective Ethnography of Kani Community, 2010, Working Paper No: 208.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, The Calling of Practical Spirituality: Transformations in Science and Religion and New Dialogues on Self, Transcendence and Society, 2009, Working Paper No: 207.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Sociology as Quest for a Good Society: A Conversation with Robert Bellah, 2008, Working Paper No: 206.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Tibet, China and the World: Realizing Peace, Freedom and Harmony, 2008, Working Paper No: 205.
- S. Anandhi, The Manifesto and the Modern Self Reading the Autobiography of Muthulakshmi Reddy, 2008, Working Paper No: 204.
- M. Arivalagan, Beyond Colonialism: Towards A New Environmental History of India, 2008, Working Paper No: 203
- Rajakishor Mahana, Pain, Politics and Persistence: The Power of Powerlessness, 2008, Working Paper No 202.
- Ann George, Adapting capability approach to understand the life experiences of the poor, 2008, Working Paper No 201.
- D Jayaraj, Exploring the Importance of Excess Female Mortality and Discrimination in 'Natality' in Explaining the 'Lowness' of the Sex Ratio in India, 2007, Working Paper No 200.
- K Jeyashree, Welfare Pluralism: A Post Modern Rationale in Policy Making, 2007, Working Paper No 199.
- S Anandhi and Padmini Swaminathan, Making it relevant: Mapping the meaning of women's studies in Tamil Nadu, 2007, Working Paper No. 198.
- C Jerome Samraj, Understanding the Struggle for Panchama Land, 2006, Working Paper No 197.
- S Janakarajan, Marie Llorente and Marie - Helene Zerah, Urban water conflicts in Indian cities: Man-made scarcity as a critical factor, 2006, Working Paper No 196.
2005 - 2001
- Mahendra Nayak, Drought, Agriculture, and Rural Livelihood: A Case Study of Bolangir District, Orissa, 2005, Working Paper No 195.
- K Sivasubramaniyan and R Sakthivadivel, Farm Level Land and Water Productivity in Tank Irrigation: Some Methodological Issues, 2005, Working Paper No 194.
- Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra, Water Governance: A Historical Understanding of Mahanadi River Basin, Orissa, 2005, Working Paper No 193.
- Ananta K Giri, Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and Methods and the Calling of an Ontological Epistemology of Participation, 2005, Working Paper No 192.
- K. Kalpana, Microfinance - the Silver Bullet for Empowerment: Some Questions, 2004, Working Paper No 191.
- Moana Bhagabati, GATT, WTO and Rules on Regional Integration, 2004, Working Paper No 190
- K. Kalpana, The Shifting Trajectories in Microfinance Discourse: A critical reading of the Anti-Poverty Dimensions of Microfinance programmes, 2004, Working Paper No 189.
- Nirmal Sengupta and Moana Bhagabati, Facilitating India's Trading Environment: An Overview, 2004, Working Paper No 188.
- Kripa AnanthPur, Interfaces in Local Governance - A Study in Karnataka, 2004, Working Paper No 187.
- Padmini Swaminathan, The Trauma of 'Wage Employment' and the 'Burden of Work' for Women in India: Evidences and Experiences, 2004, Working Paper No 186.
- Manabi Majumdar & Indrashis Banerjee, Delegation to Devolution: West Bengal, 2004, Working Paper No 185.
- V. K. Natraj and Kripa Ananthpur, Delegation to Devolution: Karnataka, 2004, Working Paper No 184.
- A.Vaidyanathan with K.Sivasubramaniyan, Efficiency of Water Use in Indian Agriculture, 2004, Working Paper No 183.
- S. Neelakantan, A Gossipmonger's Revisit to Chettipalayam, 2003, Working Paper No.182.
- K. Aparna Bhagirathy, Intellectual Property Rights for Traditional Knowledge - Economic Analysis of an Incentive System, 2003, Working Paper No.181.
- Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Does better health influence economic performance in India: An exploratory analysis at the district level, 2003, Working Paper No.180.
- A. Vaidyanathan, K. Sivasubramaiyan and S. Mariasusai, Conditions and Characteristics of well Irrigation under Palar Basin, Tamilnadu, 2003, Working Paper No.179.
- Ananta K. Giri, Knowledge and human liberation: Jurgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and beyond, 2003, Working Paper No.178.
- Ananta K. Giri, A school for the subject: The vision and experiments of integral education, 2002, Working Paper No.177.
- Ananta K. Giri, Spiritual cultivation for a secular society, 2002, Working Paper No.176.
- S. Janakarajan, >Soiled Agriculture and spoiled environment: Socio-economic impact of groundwater pollution in Tamilnadu, 2002, Working Paper No.175.
- S. Janakarajan and Marcus Moench, Institute for Social Economic Transition, Boulder, USA, Are wells a potential threat to farmers' wellbeing? The case of deteriorating groundwater irrigation in Tamilnadu, 2002, Working Paper No.174.
- K. Sivasubramaniyan, Alapakkam A Resurvey, 2002, Working Paper No.173.
- Marcus Moench, Institute for social and and Economic Transition, Boulder, U.S.A. and S.Janakarajan, Water Markets, Commodity Chains and the Value of Water, 2002, Working Paper No.172.
- A. Rajagopal, SACI Waters and S. Janakarajan, State in perplexity: The politics of water rights and system turnover in Tamilnadu, 2002, Working Paper No.171.
- Manabi Majumdar, Decentralisation reforms and public schools: A human development perspective, 2002, Working Paper No.170.
- V. Chandrasekara Naidu, Some Observations on Food Security, Sufficiency and Safety, 2002, Working Paper No.169.
- Padmini Swaminathan, Labour - Intensive Industries But Units Without 'Workers': Where Will ILO's Social Dialogue Begin?, 2002, Working Paper No.168.
- Dr. S.M.A.K. Fakhri, Print Culture amongst Tamils and Tamil Muslims in Southeast Asia, c.1860-1960, 2002, Working Paper No.167.
- V. Chandrasekara Naidu, A Study of Enathimelpakkam village At the Millennium Threshold, 2002, Working Paper No.166.
- Ananta K. Giri, Rule of law and Indian society: Colonial encounters, post-colonial experiments and beyond, 2001, Working Paper No.165.
- Parthasarathi Shome, Value Added Tax Preparation: Structure and Administration, 2001, Working Paper No. 164.
- Rajagopal A, and Vaidyanathan A, Trends in the Costs of Irrigation Across Different States in India: The Case of Major and Medium Projects, 2001, Working Paper No. 163.
- Des Gasper, Building Bridges and Nurturing A Complex Ecology of Ideas, 2001, Working Paper No. 162.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Gandhi, Tagore and a New Ethics of Argumentation, 2001, Working Paper No. 161.
2000 - 1996
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Rethinking Human Well Being: A Dialogue with Amartya Sen, 2000, Working Paper No.:160.
- Ananta Kumar Giri & Philip Quarles von Ufford, Reconstituting Development as a Shared Responsibility: Ethics, Aesthetics and a Creative Shaping of Human Possibilities, 2000, Working Paper No.159.
- Manabi Majumdar, Classes for the Masses? Social Ambition, Social Distance and Quality of the Government School System, 2000, Working Paper No.158.
- Jayaraj D, Sex Ratio at Birth: An Exploratory Analysis of Its Determinants, 1999, Working Paper No.157.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Audited Accountability and the Imperative of Responsibility: Beyond the Primacy of the Political and the Systemic and the Calling of Swaraj, 1999, Working Paper No.156.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Literature and the Tapashya of Transformation: A Glimpse into the Creative Worlds of Chittarajan Das, 1998, Working Paper No.155.
- Jayaraj D, Subramanian S, Assessing the `Femaleness' of a Population, 1998, Working Paper No.154.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Moral Commitments and the Transformation of Politics: Kant, Gandhi and Beyond, 1998, Working Paper No.153.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Rethinking Civil Society, 1998, Working Paper No.152.
- Jayaraj D, Subramanian S, Child Labour in Tamilnadu: A Preliminary Account of its Nature, Extent and Distribution, 1997, Working Paper No.151.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative Experiments and the Critiques of Modernity, 1997, Working Paper No.150.
- Janaki Nair, Palace / Gallery / Museum: The Importance of Being `National', 1997, Working Paper No.149.
- Janaki Nair, Drawing the line: K Venkatappa and his Publics, 1997, Working Paper No.148.
- Padmini Swaminathan, Work and Reproductive Health: A Hobson's Choice for Indian Women?, 1997, Working Paper No.147.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Confronting the Challenge of Ethics: Experiential Dilemmas and the Perspectives of the Managers, 1997, Working Paper No.146.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations: A Poser, 1997, Working Paper No.145.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, The Struggle for Life and Light: Agragamee and the Management Functions for Human Liberation, 1997, Working Paper No.144.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Well being of Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation, 1997, Working Paper No.143.
- Manabi Majumdar, Is Democracy a Captive of Capital? Sweden and the United States in Comparative Perspective, 1996, Working Paper No.142.
- Padmini Swaminathan, The failures of success? An Analysis of Tamilnadu's Recent Demographic Experience, 1996, Working Paper No.141.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Self, Other and the Challenge of Culture, 1996, Working Paper 140.
- Neelakantan S, Change and Continuity A Contrasting Account of Urban and Rural Transformation, 1996, Working Paper No.139.
1995 - 1991
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: From Discourse Ethics to Spiritual Transformation, 1995, Working Paper No.138.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Management Education and the Teaching of Ethics: Pedagogy, Practice and the Challenge of a New Initiative, 1995, Working Paper No.137.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Building in the Margins of Sacks: Towards a Hermeneutics of Recovery, 1995, Working Paper No.136.
- Ananta Kumar Giri, Building a Global Covenant? The Overseas Work and the International Partners of Habitat for Humanity, 1995, Working Paper No.135.
- Thangaraj M, Demographic and Occupational Characteristics of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in India, 1995, Working Paper No.134.
- Subramanian S, Towards a simple interpretation of the Atkinson class of inequality indices, 1995,Working Paper No.133.
- Subramanian S, On some difficulties with reckoning in the measurement of poverty, 1995,Working Paper No.132.
- Janaki Nair, Dangerous Labour: Crime, Work and Punishment in Kolar Gold Fields, 1898 1946, 1995, Working Paper No.131.
- Venkatachalam L, Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) for Sustainable Development: A Survey, 1995, Working Paper No.130.
- Guhan S, The Report of the Tenth Finance Commission, 1995, Working Paper No.129.
- Chandrasekara Naidu V, Verkadu: A Resurvey, 1995, Working Paper No.128.
- Chandrasekara Naidu V, Enathimelpakkam Revisited 1993 94, 1995, Working Paper No.127.
- Padmini Swaminathan J Jeyaranjan, The knitwear cluster in Tiruppur: An Indian industrial district in the making?, 1994, Working Paper No.126
- M S S Pandian, Beyond colonial crumbs Cambridge School, identity politics and Dravidian movement(s), 1994, Working Paper No.125
- Nirmal Sengupta, Issues in project design: The Sardar Sarovar Project and its alternatives, 1994, Working Paper No.124
- S Janakarajan, Trading in ground water: A source of power and accumulation, 1994, Working Paper No.123
- M. Thangaraj, Access to Land for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India, 1994, Working Paper No.122
- S.Subramanian, Agitation of Fuzzy Preferences: Variations on a Theme, 1994, Working Paper No.121
- M.S.S.Pandian, Notes on the transformation of `Dravidian Ideology:Tamil Nadu, c.1990 1940, 1994, Working Paper No.120
- Ajit Menon, Institutions and economic analysis: Theoretical considerations for natural resource management, 1994, Working Paper No.119
- Millie Nihila, Occupational health: Methodological issues for consideration from a study of the leather tanning industry, 1994, Working Paper No.118
- Nasir Tyabji, Public Investment and technology choice in the road transport sector: Its effects on industrial growth in Madras, 1994, Working Paper No.117
- D.Jayaraj, Labour force participation of children in rural India: An analysis of the Determinants, 1993, Working Paper No.116
- S. Subramanian, Liberty, equality and impossibility: some general results on the space of `soft' preferences, 1993, Working Paper No.115
- D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian, Poverty eradication through Re distributive Taxation: Some elementary considerations, 1993, Working Paper No.114
- C.Annadurai, Supply response and marketed surplus behaviour of foodgrains and the Public Distribution System in India: Some policy implications, 1993, Working Paper No.113
- M S S Pandian, Gendered negotiations: Hunting and colonialism in the late ninteenth century Nilgiris, 1993, Working Paper No.112
- D. Jayaraj, Labour force participation of women and children in rural Tamil Nadu: An analysis of the inter district variability, 1993, Working Paper No.111
- Padmini Swamianthan, Patriarchy and class: An approach to a study of women's education in Madras Presidency, 1992, Working Paper No.110
- V.Chandrasekara Naidu, Verkadu: A study of a backward agricultural village in Tamil Nadu, 1992, Working Paper No.109
- P. Radhakrishnan, Communal representation in Tamil Nadu: 1850 1916: The pre non brahmin movement phase, 1992, Working Paper No.108
- M. Thangaraj, Land use pattern in Tamil Nadu, 1992, Working Paper No.107
- Padmini Swamianthan, Technical education in Madras Presidency, 1992, Working Paper No.106
- Padmini Swaminathan, Evolution of industrial policy in Madras Presidency, 1900 1947, 1991, Working Paper No.105
- D. Jayaraj, Spatial pricing efficiency in ground nut markets in Tamil Nadu, 1991, Working Paper No.104
- M S S Pandian, Colonialism, nationalism and legitimation: An essay on Vaikunda Swamy Cult, Travancore, 1991, Working Paper No.103
- S. Janakarajan, The extent and impact of ground water irrigation in Tamil Nadu: Some macro and micro evidences, 1991, Working Paper No.102
- P. Radhakrishnan, Ambedkar's legacy to the Dalits: Has the national reneged on its promise?, 1991, Working Paper No.101
- Padmini Swaminathan, State competition with private enterprises: The case of manufacture in jails in the Madras Presidency, 1991, Working Paper No.100
- Padmini Swaminathan, State intervention in industrialisation: A case study of Madras Presidency, 1991, Working Paper No.99
- Nasir Tyabji, Industrial development in South India: 1880 1947, 1991, Working Paper No.98
- S. Janakarajan, In search of tanks:Some hidden facts, 1991, Working Paper No.97
1990 - 1986
- S. Guhan, Social security initiatives in Tamil Nadu:1989, 1990, Working Paper No.96
- M. Thangaraj, Trends in fragmentation of operational holdings in India: An exploratory analysis, 1990, Working Paper No.95
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy 1990 91, 1990, Working Paper No.94
- Nasir Tyabji, The genesis of chemical based industrialisation: The case of oilseeds in Madras upto the depression, 1990, Working Paper No.93
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy 1989 90, 1989, Working Paper No.92
- D. Jayaraj, Rural nonfarm employment: An analysis of the village level data for Tamil Nadu, 1989, Working Paper No.91
- D. Jayaraj, Determinants of rural non agricultural employment, 1989, Working Paper No.90
- P. Radhakrishnan, Backward classes in Tamil Nadu: 1872 1988, 1989, Working Paper No.89
- Paul P Appasamy, Managing pollution in the waterways of Madras city: An initial assessment, 1989, Working Paper No.88
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy 1988 89, 1988, Working Paper No.87
- V. Chandrasekara Naidu, Some aspects of agro economic transformation in Tamil Nadu: A case study of Enathimelpakkam village, 1988, Working Paper No.86
- Christophe Guilmoto, The Sircar's idle curiosity: Critical evaluation of Tamil Nadu's demographic sources, 1871 1981, 1988, Working Paper No.85
- R.N. Poduval, Agricultural growth and equity, 1988, Working Paper No.84.
- Nasir Tyabji, Focussing state aid to industry Madras: 1921 1997, 1988, Working Paper No.83
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid term assessment of the seventh plan (1985 86 to 1989 90) and mid year review of the economy 1987 88, 1987, Working Paper No.82
- U. Kalpagam, Aspects of urban labour force in India:II, 1987, Working Paper No.81
- U. Kalpagam, Aspects of urban labour force in India:1, 1987, Working Paper No.80
- V. K. Ramachandran, General election 1984 in Gokilapuram: A case study of voting behaviour, 1987, Working Paper No.79
- A. Vaidyanathan, Labour use in rural India: A study of spatial and temporal variations, 1986, Working Paper No.78
- S. Guhan, State finance in Tamil Nadu: 1960 85 A review of trends and policy, 1986, Working Paper No.77
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy 1986 87, 1986, Working Paper No.76
- R.N. Poduval assisted by C. Annadurai, The foodgrain economy of Tamil Nadu: Problems and prospects, 1986, Working Paper No.75
- S. Subramanian, Poverty and inequality in Tamil Nadu, 1986, Working Paper No.74
- Sarajit Majumdar, Social formation and internal structure, 1986, Working Paper No.73
- S. Subramanian, Rights and paretianism in a framework of fuzzy preferences (Working Papers 69 72 published as one volume), 1986, Working Paper No.72
- S. Subramanian, Liberty, fairness and possibility of social choice, 1986, Working Paper No.71
- S. Subramnaian, On trading personal liberty, 1986, Working Paper No.70.
- S. Subramanian, Rights, consensus and optimum saving problems, 1986, Working Paper No.69
- S. Subramanian, On constructing an index of discrimination: A brief note (Working Papers 65 68 published as one volume), 1986, Working Paper No.68
- S. Subramanian, On a standard of living related index of aggregate, 1986, Working Paper No.67
- S. Subramanian, An index of poverty and an index of inequality, 1986, Working Paper No.66
- S. Subramanian, A generalisation of Gini based Lorenz Symmetry considerations, 1986, Working Paper No.65
- P. Radhakrishnan, Caste discrimination in indigenous Indian education III:Study of early, 19th century Bombay Presidency, 1986, Working Paper No.64
- P. Radhakrishnan, Caste discrimination in indigenous Indian education: Nature and extent, of education in early 19th century British India, 1986, Working Paper No.63
1985 - 1978
- Jean Racine, Urban strategies in rural development: The spaces and dynamics of change in a district, 1985, Working Paper No.62
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy, 1985, Working Paper No.61
- A. Vaidyanathan, Economic reform in China: Some impressions, 1985, Working Paper No.60
- Padmini Swaminathan, Business houses in south India: A case study of structure and functioning of the TVS group, 1985, Working Paper No.59.
- Padmini Swaminathan, The MRTP Act 1969 and concentration of economic power, 1985, Working Paper No.58
- Nirmal Sengupta, Contract labour in Rourkela steel plant, 1985, Working Paper No.57
- V.B. Athreya, Gangaikondan 1961 1984: Change and stability, 1985, Working Paper No.56
- Nirmal Sengupta, Irrigation: Traditional vs modern, 1985, Working Paper No.55
- K. Nagaraj, Towns in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh: A study of population and spatial configurations 1961 to 1981, 1985, Working Paper No.54
- S. Guhan, Devolution criteria: From gamble to policy, 1984, Working Paper No.53
- K. Bharathan, Dusi: A resurvey, 1984, Working Paper No.52
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the economy, 1984, Working Paper No.51
- V.B. Athreya, Vadamalaipuram : Resurvey, 1984, Working Paper No.50
- S. Guhan, Irrigation in Tamil Nadu: A survey, 1984, Working Paper No.49
- Roland Lardinois, Famines, edpidemics and mortality in south India during the nineteenth century:The demographic crisis of 1876 1878 A reappraisal, 1984, Working Paper No.48
- V.K. Ramachandran, A study of the Cumbum Valley Madurai district with particular reference to Gokilapuram village, 1984, Working Paper No.47.
- P. Usha, The leather industry in Tamil Nadu: Its role and some aspects of its transformation during 1960 to 1978 79 as seen through the annual survey of industries, 1984, Working Paper No.46.
- Padmini Swaminathan, Concentration in productive capacity, 1983, Working Paper No.45
- U. Kalpagam, Labour market segmentation in a multistructural context and its implications on the female labour force, 1983, Working Paper No.44
- V. Chandrasekara Naidu, National sample surveys data on household consumer expenditure : A critique, 1983, Working Paper No.43
- S. Guhan, Palakurichi: A resurvey, 1983, Working Paper No.42
- S. Subramanian, Paretianism, justice and liberalism in the theory of social choice, 1983, Working Paper No.41
- S. Subramanian, Production risks and the choice of mode of tenancy: A theoretical note, 1983, Working Paper No.40
- S. Subramanian, Some implications of the special bearer bonds scheme: An application of elementary supply demand analysis, 1983, Working Paper No.39
- K. Bharathan, The special bearer bonds scheme pedigree and prospects, 1983, Working Paper No.38
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, A Mid year review of the economy, 1983, Working Paper No.37
- Padmini Swaminathan, A study of production concentration in Indian industry : A statistical analysis of structure, 1983, Working Paper No.36
- S. Subramanian, Some reflections on supply side economics and its theoretical antecedents (or) some unrecorded adventures of Alice in Wonderland, 1983, Working Paper No.35
- K. Bharathan, The cotton handloom industry in Tamil Nadu: Some characteristics and aspects of change from the post independence Census data, 1983, Working Paper No.34
- S. Majumdar and K. Nagaraj, Process of migration : An analysis of sample migrants in Madras urban agglomeration, 1983, Working Paper No.33.
- P. Usha, Mechanisation and labour utilisation : The case of traditional workers in the leather industry of Tamil Nadu, 1983, Working Paper No.32
- V.K. Ramachandran, Inequality in distribution of land holdings and assets among households in Gokilapuram village: A report from a field survey, 1983, Working Paper No.31
- S. Guhan, The Finance Commission: A critique and a concept, 1982, Working Paper No.30
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, Mid term review of the sixth plan and Mid term review of the economy, 1982, Working Paper No.29
- S. Guhan and Joan P. Mencher, Iruvelpattu revisited, 1982, Working Paper No.28
- John Harriss, Studies of small scale enterprises and urban labour in South India, 1982, Working Paper No.27
- Sarajit Majumdar and K.Nagaraj, Immigration to Madras urban agglomeration, 1982, Working Paper No.26
- K. Nagaraj and Sarajit Majumdar, Growth of Madras urban agglomeration, 1981, Working Paper No.25
- K. Bharathan, Development through industrialisation: Analysis and case study of backward area development, 1981, Working Paper No.24.
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, A Mid year review of the economy, 1981, Working Paper No.23
- Judith Heyar, Attempting to reach the rural poor? The small farmer development agency in Varandur village, Coimbatore, 1981, Working Paper No.22
- S. Guhan, Health in Tamil Nadu: Facts and issues, 1981, Working Paper No.21.
- E.S.Srinivasan assisted by G.N. Deenadayalan, Rural artisans in Tamil Nadu, 1981, Working Paper No.20
- Barbara Harriss, The behaviour of farm product prices in Tamil Nadu: An investigation into the demands of the farmers movement, 1981, Working Paper No.19
- U. Kalpagam assisted by Padma Balaji and M. Shiva Kumar, Female labour in small industry: The case of export garments, 1981, Working Paper No.18
- C.T. Kurien, The scale factor in agriculture, 1981, Working Paper No.17.
- S. Guhan, Rural poverty: A critique of the sixth plan's approach, 1981,Working Paper No.16
- Malcolm S Adiseshiah, A Mid year review of the economy, 1981, Working Paper No.15
- John Harriss, Contemporary Marxist analysis of the agrarian question in India, 1980, Working Paper No.14
- Barbara Harriss, Coarse grains, coarse interventions: Part II state trading : A case study of dryland regions of India, 1980, Working Paper No.13
- C.T. Kurien and Abdul Huq, An analysis of internal migration in Tamil Nadu, 1980, Working Paper No.12
- Barbara Harriss, Coarse grains,coarse interventions: Part I regulated marketing : A case study of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, 1980, Working Paper No.11
- C.T. Kurien, Social problems and social science, 1980, Working Paper No.10.
- Barbara Harriss, Agricultural commerce and rural development in India: Resolving theoretical and substantive confusion, 1989, Working Paper No.8
- Barbara Harriss, How to study agricultural marketing and how not to study it?, 1980, Working Paper No.7
- John Harriss, The mode of production controversy: Themes and problems of debate, 1979, Working Paper No.6
- V.N. Deshpande, Some methodological issues in the study of caste and class in the Indian village/rural social structure, 1979, Working Paper No.5
- Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, Economics of non-formal education, 1979, Working Paper No.4
- C.T. Kurien, The new development strategy: An appraisal, 1978, Working Paper No.3
- Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, Mid year review of the Economy, 1978, Working Paper No.2
- C.T. Kurien, The dynamics of rural transformation: A Case study of Tamilnadu, 1978, Working Ppaer No.1