Welcome to my webpage. I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I teach Comparative Politics. My research has focused on the political economy of India, comparative federalism, India-China comparisons, and international sources of change in developing countries. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison I am affiliated with the Center for South Asia, the World Affairs in the Global Economy and Global Studies.  I organised a conference on India's democracy in 2001 and am part of a APSA Taskforce on Difference and Inequality in the Developing world. I spent an year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC as a Fellow in 2004-2005.