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About the Author

Rajni Kothari is known in India and abroad as a scholar and an activist, for his continuing search on intellectual, political and ethical dimensions of contemporary reality. The result has been varied: setting up of Institutions like CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) and Lokayan (Dialogue of the People), participating in bodies like PUCL (People’s Union of Civil Liberties), ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) and IFDA (International Foundation for Development Alternatives) in Nyon (Switzerland) as Chairperson, and producing works like Politics in India (his first major work), Footsteps into the Future, State Against Democracy Transformation and Survival Rethinking Development, Growing Amnesia An Essay on Poverty and the Human Consciousness and Communalism in Indian Politics.