Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

IT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and two years MS programmes in 8 different engineering disciplines including&nbsp;Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil among others.

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IIT HYDERABAD

Interrogating ‘Care’,‘Chronicity’and Expansion of Patienthood: An Ethnographic Study of Community Mental Health in Contemporary India

World University root node

Medical Anthropology

Task-shifting in community mental health in Kerala: Tensions and ruptures

European Journal of Comparative Economics

Structural Change and Labour Productivity Trend in the Non-Agricultural Sector: A Study of Asia

The empirical growth literature has established that institutional quality is a deep determinant of economic growth. We examine whether institutional quality in low income countries converges to the level witnessed in high income countries, or whether they are trapped in convergence clubs that stagnate or even deteriorate over time. Using the log-t-test suggested by Phillips and Sul (2007), we find evidence of multiple equilibria in institutional quality, with several countries stuck in poor quality institutions traps. We further find that per capita incomes of some of the developing countries are also stuck in low-level traps. Finally, using bivariate probit estimations, we establish that poor institutional traps are major determinants of low income traps. These results indicate that these countries are caught in a double trap where their incomes are stuck in low-level traps from which it is difficult to escape, because the institutions that enable growth are also stuck in low-quality traps.

Economic Modelling

The double trap: Institutions and economic development

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Fractured narratives of psy disciplines and the LGBTQIA+ rights movement in India: A critical examination

This article attempts to investigate the relationship between the domestic and the politics in the modern Tamil subjectivity constitution during the period spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s. More specifically, it takes up the political discourse of C. N. Annadurai—a significant founding member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and a man who played a decisive role in shaping the culture and politics of the state—and attempts to examine the spatial tension, that is, the fusion and commonalities between the domestic sphere and political space in modern Tamil subjectivity construction and the implications it had for gender. © 2018 Lokniti, Centre For The Study Of Developing Societies.

Studies in Indian Politics

‘Is It Family or Politics?’ Reflections on Gender and the Modern Tamil Subjectivity Constitution in the Discourse of C. N. Annadurai

In the light of the ongoing prioritisation of Hindi by the central government, the projection of Hindi as the “self” is problematic for several reasons. Three “self–other” binaries are discussed in this regard: Hindi–Hindu as “self,” Urdu–Muslim as “other”; Sanskrit-laden Hindi favouring upper caste Hindus as “self,” vernacular Hindi dialects often represented by the lower castes and classes as “other”; and finally Hindi as the epitome of “desi self,” English as “foreign other.”. © 2018 Economic and Political Weekly. All Rights Reserved.

Economic and Political Weekly

Problematising Hindi as the ‘self’ and English as the ‘other’

Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies 6 (1-2)

Indian English at Sociolinguistic Crossroads: Impact of the Tripartite Relationship between Schooling, Social Class and English in Urban India

Psychology and Developing Societies

Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in IndiaEcksStefan

Open Journal of Psychiatry &Allied Sciences

Practice of family therapy in a heteronormative society of India from queer theory perspective