Venue : Lokniti-center for study of developing societies, Delhi.
April 4th and 5th, 2017
Lokniti - Programme for Comparative Democracy(www.lokniti.org ) is a network of academics
interested in empirical study of Indian politics and also a research programme for comparative
democracy based at CSDS, Delhi. Formalized in 1997, Lokniti completes two decades of its
existence in 2017. To celebrate the completion of two decades of existence of this novel
collaborative research programme and network, Lokniti plans to hold a Two-Day Seminar on the
theme, Explorations in Indian Democracy to be held at CSDS, Delhi, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 4
th&5
th, 2017. The seminar intends to discuss, in an empirical frame, specific themes on which we invite papers
from researchers and young-to-mid-career scholars using data already available or collected by
the scholars. An adequate number of papers will be selected on each of the following themes on
the basis of proposal to be submitted by 30thDecember 2016. The decision regarding the
selection would be announced by 20thJanuary, 2017 and the selected participants would be
required to submit working drafts by 1st March, 2017.
The proposals are expected to be of not more than 1000 words but should clearly state objective,
the central question and the method of investigation. Draft papers are expected to be in the range
of 5000 to 7000 words inclusive of data, appendixes and references.
Submission of proposal: December 30th,2016 Announcement of selection of proposal : January 20th, 2017 Contact details :lokniti@csds.in For more details Visit: www.lokniti.org/pdf/Call_for_paper.pdf