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Companion to Development Studies (2008) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Hodder Arnold Publications, London (revised second edition). It will also be published in Chinese during the year 2010 by Commercial Press, Beijing. See book review here

Doing Development Research (2006) (eds.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Sage Publications, London. pp.324,  ISBN 10 4129 0285. This is also published by Vistaar  Publications for the South Asian market (ISBN 8178297191).

The Companion to Development Studies (2002) (ed.)Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Arnold Publications, London , pp.562. ISBN 034076051 6.

Introduction to Displacement (2001) Jenny Robinson andVandana Desai Open University Press, Milton Keynes , pp.84. ISBN 0 7492 3811 9. This forms part of Open University course U213 International Development: Challenges for a World inTransition.

Community Participation and Slum Housing: A Study of Bombay , (1995) Sage Publications, New Delhi/London/Thousand Oaks, California , 348pp ISBN 0 8039 9228 9.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Critically Understanding Asian Perspectives on Ageing (With Matthew Tye) (July 2009) in Third World Quarterly, Vol.30, No.5, 2009, pp1007-1025.

"NGOs, gender mainstreaming, and urban poor communities in Mumbai" (July 2005) in Gender and Development, Volume 13, Number 2, pp.90-98.

"Emerging Staffing Issues in Grassroots Urban NGOs: The Case of Mumbai" in Global Built Environment Review (GBER) 2003, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 26-36.

"Urban Grassroots Non-Governmental Organisations in Bombay : A Suggested Typology" (with Ian Preston) in Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy , August 2000, Vol.18, pp.453-468.

"Anatomy of the Bombay NGO Sector" in Environment and Urbanization , Vol:11, No:1, April 1999 pp.247-265.

"The New Managerialism in Local Governance: North-South dimensions" (with Rob Imrie) in Third World Quarterly Vol.19(4)1998 pp.635-650.

"Access to Power and Participation" in Third World Planning Review 18 (2) May 1996

"NGO Expansion in an Urban Setting: Bombay " in Development Research Insights , 18 th March 1996, pp.4.

"Migration and Labour Characteristics of Slumdwellers in Bombay " in Sociological Bulletin , Mar. 1994, Vol. 43, (1) Journal of the Indian Sociology Society.

"Aspects of Community Participation within Low-Income Housing" in The Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies , July 1994, Vol.6, No.2.

"Problem of Housing the Urban Poor of India: A case-study of Dharavi" in the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB ) News, Vol.XV, No.1, Regn. DA-360, Jan-Feb, 1988.

"Development of Urban Low Income Housing in India : Dharavi the largest slum in Asia ", in Habitat International , Vol.12, No.2, 1988. A Journal for the Study of Human Settlements.

Contribution of Chapters in Books & Monographs

Overview: Urbanization and Housing the Poor in The International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home, edited by Smith, SJ; Elsinga, M.; Fox-O’Mahony, L; Ong, SE; Wachter, S., Elsevier (in press).

“Aging Asia” (2010) (with Matthew Tye) in Geography and You (a development and environment magazine in India) Vol. 10, Issues 58, Jan-Feb 2010, pp. 6-11.

Globalisation, Socio-Cultural Change and Household Strategies (2009) in The Urban World (a quarterly publication of the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), All India Institute of Local Self Government, Mumbai), Vol: 2, No:4, October-December. pp. 26-36.

'Aid' in Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds.) (2009) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 84-90.Oxford: Elsevier

“Gender and Globalisation” (with Harriot Beazley) in Companion to Development Studies (2008) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Hodder Arnold Publications, London (revised second edition).

“Community Participation in Development” in Companion to Development Studies (2008) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Hodder Arnold Publications, London (revised second edition).

“Role of non-governmental organanizations” (NGOs) in Companion to Development Studies (2008) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Hodder Arnold Publications, London (revised second edition).

"Women's Social Transformation, NGOs and Globalization in Urban India" in Saraswati Raju, M. Satish Kumar and Stuart Corbridge (2006) (eds.) Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London. pp. 120-140.

The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research (with Robert Potter) in Doing Development Research (2006) (eds.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Sage Publications, London, pp.3-10.

“Ester Boserup” in David Simon (ed.) (2005) Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, Routledge, pp50-55.

“Migration and Labour characteristics of slum dwellers in Bombay” in Sandhu, Ranvinder Singh (2003) Urbanization in India: Sociological Contributions, Sage Publications, London and New Delhi pp.199-231.

“Sustainability” (With Nils Norman) in F. Driver, C. Nash, K. Prendergast, I. Swenson (eds) Landing: eight collaborative projects between artists + geographers (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, 2002) pp. 42-47.

"NGO-Government Relationships in South Asia: The Case of India and Bangladesh" in South Asia in a Globalising World: A Reconstructed Regional Geography, (2002) (ed.) Robert Bradnock and Glyn Williams, DARG Regional Development Series, Pearson Education, Harlow, England, pp. 144-166.

"Informal politics, grassroots NGOs and women's empowerment in the slums of Bombay" in Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and development in a global/local world (2002) edited by Jane Parpart, Shirin Rai and Kathleen Staudt, Routledge, London, pp.218-235.

"Development-induced displacement: the case of urban development in Mumbai" in Introduction to Displacement (2001) Jenny Robinson and Vandana Desai, Open University Press, Milton Keynes , pp.59-79.

Editorial introductions on various sections - Rural Development, Gender, Population and development, Health and Education, Political Economy of Violence and Insecurity, Agents of Development in The Companion to Development Studies (2002) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Arnold Publications, London.

"Community Participation in Development" in The Companion to Development Studies (2002) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Arnold Publications, London, pp.117-121.

"Role Of Non-Governmental Organisations" in The Companion to Development Studies (2002) (ed.) Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, Arnold Publications, London, pp. 495-499.

"Urban NGO-Government Relationship: Experiences from Bombay " in Graham P. Chapman, Ashok K. Dutt and Robert Bradnock (ed.) (1999) Urban Growth and Development in Asia: Living in the Cities (vol:II), Ashgate , England , pp.368-387.

(with Mick Howes) "Accountability and Participation: A Case Study from Bombay " in Michael Edwards and David Hulme (ed.) (1995) Non - Governmental Organisations - Performance and Accountability: Beyond the Magic Bullet, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London , pp.83-93.

Book Reviews

Gayatri Chatterjee (2002) "Mother India", British Film Institute, London in Times Higher Education Supplement on 4th July 2003 entitled "Eternal myth of ideal woman".

Thomas Blom Hansen (2001) "Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay" in Times Higher Education Supplement on 30th January 2004 entitled "When aggression became the ruling power in a cosmopolitan culture".

Dasgupta, Partha and Ismail Serageldin, Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective, Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2000 (with Ian Preston) in Contemporary South Asia, 2001, 10(3), pp.418-419.

Adrian Leftwich (2000) "States of Development: On the Primacy of Politics in Development, Polity Press in Times Higher Education Supplement on 24th May 2002 entitled "The poverty of development studies without the politics".

Tim Allen and Alan Thomas (2000) "Poverty and Development into the 21st century" Oxford University Press in Times Higher Education Supplement, on 26th May 2000. The article was entitled " How to develop a world of problems".

Rachel Dwyer "All You Want is Money, All you Need is Love: Sex and Romance in Modern India" in Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2000.

Parasuraman S. (1999) "The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India " Macmillan, Basingstoke in The Times Higher Education Supplement, on 4 th June 1999 pp.29. The article was entitled "Poor and Poorer".

Arundhati Roy (1999) "The Cost Of Living" Flamingo (HarperCollins Publishers), London in The Times Higher Education Supplement, on 3 rd December 1999 pp.23. The article was entitled "A rallying call for dam busters".

Alain R. A. Jacquemin (1999) Urban Development and New Towns in the Third World: Lessons from the New Bombay Experience" Ashgate, Aldershot , England , in Third World Planning Review, Vol: 22, No: 1, February 2000, pp109-110.

Naoki Suzuki (1998) " NGOs: Managing Conflicts between Headquarters and the Field offices in NGOs", Intermediate Technology Publications - Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 rd Oct. 1998.

Reviewed four journal issues of Gender Technology and Development (ed.) Govind Kelkar , Sage in Times Higher Education Supplement, Dec 4 th 1998.

Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery (1997) " Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic change in rural north India ", Cambridge University Press - Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 th May 1998.

R. Riddell and Mark Robinson with J. De Coninck, A. Muir and S. White (1996) " Non-Governmental Organisations and Rural Poverty Alleviation " Clarendon Press, Oxford - Times Higher Education Supplement, 5th July 1996.

Paul Nelson (1995) " The World Bank And Non-Governmental Organizations: The limits of A Political Development " Macmillan Press - Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 nd May 1998.

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (1994) " The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India : Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay , 1900-1940 " Cambridge University Press - Times Higher Education Supplement, 22nd September 1995.