The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies was established in 1963 by a small group of Indian Scholars to create a capacity for theoretical and empirical research in social and political processes and to understand their implications for human choices. Its Fellows (15) form an interesting college of scholars with varied research interests and agenda. Its current research programme has four main focus; democratic politics and its future, politics of culture and politics of knowledge, politics of alternatives and human futures, and violence, ethnicity and diversity.