The TISS Hyderabad Working Paper Series provides a platform for disseminating original research, emerging ideas, and preliminary findings across the social sciences and interdisciplinary fields.

It encourages scholarly debate, critical inquiry, and the early circulation of research that contributes to academic and policy discussions. 

Working papers may subsequently be revised and developed for publication in peer-reviewed journals, books, or other scholarly outlets.

Rekha Pappu	Quality Education in Telangana Schools: Current Challenges and Required Policy Responses
Sneha Biswas	Preparing for Extreme Heat: A Thematic Review of India’s State and City Heat Action Plans
Aseem Prakash	The Cultural Commons and the Subaltern City: Theorising Leisure, City Life, and the Urban Poor in India
Ashish Prabhakar	Beyond ‘Irrational’ Choices: Emotions, Waste and Peri-urban Conflict in Vilappilsala, Kerala
Sonia Sawhney & Sourya Banerjee	Designing Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Social Sciences with a Focus on Geography and Economics
Aseem Prakash, Ipsita Sapra & Khusboo Srivastava	Governing Death, Re-specifying Agency: State, Market, and Civil Society in India
Balhasan Ali	Sports Participation Among Children in India: Evidence from National Time Use Survey
Richa Sharma, Sonia Sawhney, Sourya Banerjee & Shaily Bhadauria	Developing OERs for Social Sciences in Resource-Constrained Settings: Role of Adaptive SoPs in Navigating Challenges
Aseem Prakash	Public Policy, Economics, Behaviour, and Memory: Reimagining How Citizens Experience Governance
Vinod Kumar	Negotiating Caste and Religious Identity: The Pasi Community in Awadh, Uttar Pradesh
Dipak R. Samal	Mapping Pandemic Governance: Geospatial Insights from COVID-19 in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Ipsita Sapra	Beyond Case Counts: Policing as Fiduciary Duty
Nilanjana Ray	Domestic Violence and Vulnerability to Trafficking: A Review of the Literature
P. Karunakar	State, Market and Civil Society: A Tripartite Consensus and Perpetual Interplay in Post-neoliberalism
Sunayana Swain & Ipsita Sapra	From Commitments to Accountability: A Human Rights-Based Framework for Multisectoral Health Governance in South-East Asia Region
Mohit Kumar Gupta	Aviation Regulation in India: Some Observations from Ownership, Insolvency, and Competition Regulation
Pintu Paul	Unpaid Household and Care Work and Children’s Learning Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Vinod Kumar Mishra & Tarun Kumar	From Precarity to Protection: A Framework for Labour Security for India’s Marginalised Groups