About MIDS
The Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) was founded by Dr. Malcolm S Adiseshiah and Mrs. Elizabeth Adiseshiah, in January 1971, shortly after Dr.Adiseshiah's retirement as Deputy Director-General of UNESCO. In 1977, MIDS was reconstituted...
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Director's Message
The environment for achieving development objectives has become complex today. Technological changes and changes in social and political institutions have altered the nature of interventions required to achieve development goals. At the same time, these changes have also presented new opportunities...
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News and Announcements
Aishwarya, G. V. N., Rethinking care labour in the Indian context: Through an expanded notion of urban care infrastructure, March 2025, Working Paper No. 247.
Ananta Kumar Giri, With and beyond sociology and Indian knowledge: Bharat hind India vishwa, upanishadic sociology and planetary conversations, March 2025, Working Paper No. 246.
TEN (Tamil Nadu Economy in News) - Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2025.
Review of Development and Change - Vol 29 Issue 2 December 2024
Free download: Full text of MIDS Working Papers from 1991
MIDS Annual Report 2023-2024
Watch MIDS events on YouTube.
Ananta Kumar Giri, With and beyond sociology and Indian knowledge: Bharat hind India vishwa, upanishadic sociology and planetary conversations, March 2025, Working Paper No. 246.
TEN (Tamil Nadu Economy in News) - Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2025.
Review of Development and Change - Vol 29 Issue 2 December 2024
Free download: Full text of MIDS Working Papers from 1991
MIDS Annual Report 2023-2024
Watch MIDS events on YouTube.
Recent Projects / Publications
A Remembered Village, A Remembered Town Socio-economic Changes in Western Tamil Nadu
S. Neelakantan
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Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire
A.R. Venkatachalapathy
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Environmental Politics at the Local: Natural Resource Governance in India
Satyajit Singh and Ajit Menon
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