abstract:The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) is an Indian social sciences and humanities research institute. It was founded in 1963 by Rajni Kothari and is largely funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
According to surveys by theCentrefortheStudyofDevelopingSocieties, less than a fifth ofthe population is aware that India's markets opened up in the early 1990s.