theme have considered the larger questions of shifting relationships between the state, political society and the formal political public, and particular regimes of development, particularly, development policy. The shifts in politics, welfare, and the move from government to governance that characterised the 1990s have been of considerable interest here. Studies that reflect on the politics of the shift from centralised government to decentralised governance, and of the political economy of agrarian change in the wake of the intensifying impacts of globalising neoliberal capitalism, the politics of gender emergent in urban governance, have been carried out. Also, historical work on the politics of welfare in pre- and post-independence Kerala, on marginalisation, exclusion, and abjection in development particularly with reference to dalit people and sexual minorities, and local histories on politics and development in micro-sites of extreme marginalisation and deprivation in Kerala have been published. These studies too constitute a significant part of the interdisciplinary research at CDS in the recent decades. Methodologically, most of these studies employ a diverse set of tools. Most often, descriptive statistics, qualitative methods including interviews of different kinds, focus group discussions, and participant observation, as well as textual and discourse analyses are employed and triangulated. Most of them also deploy a historical perspective that traces different strands of social and political change across time. Research Units and Funds National Research Programme on Plantation Development (NRPPD) Planning Commission Endowment Unit on Development Economics Reserve Bank of India Endowment Unit on Economic Development Government of Kerala Endowment Unit on Local Self Governments Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs Research Unit on International Migration Joan Robinson Endowment Fund P.K. Gopalakrishanan Endowment Fund B.G. Kumar Endowment Fund A.D. Neelakantan Endowment Fund The campus CDS located in a residential area in the northwest part of the City of Thiruvananthapuram, called Prasanthnagar. The campus, designed and constructed by the architect, Laurie Baker, epitomizes his style and philosophy of adaptive building methods. The CDS Library is now one of the biggest in South India with over 1,70,000 titles in Economics and allied disciplines and subscribing to about 400 professional journals. The library is in the process of being automated. References Research institutes in Thiruvananthapuram Social science institutes 1971 establishments in Kerala Research institutes established in 1971