Stuart Corbridge has worked on the political economy of India for over thirty years.  He has particular interests in citizenship and the (contested) deepening of democracy, particularly at the village, Block and District levels.  He is the co-author (with Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava and Rene Veron) of Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (CUP 2005) and (with John Harriss) of Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (Polity and OUP, 2000 and 2003).  Corbridge has mainly worked in eastern India, in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.