{"id":9680,"date":"2026-07-31T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgunew\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:34:30","slug":"jsph-faculty-member-publishes-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/jsph-faculty-member-publishes-book\/","title":{"rendered":"JSPH faculty member publishes book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Professor (Dr.) Swati Narayan, Associate Professor at Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development (JSPH), has published a new book \u2018UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours\u2019 (Westland\/Context, 2023).<\/p>\n

In\u00a0 the book, the author describes why India lags behind even its poorer neighbours on basic human development indicators due to overlapping inequalities of caste, class and gender. She draws evidence from a unique survey she conducted for her doctoral research on healthcare, education, nutrition and sanitation across three countries: India (Bihar), Bangladesh and Nepal. The book includes historically comparative research on Sri Lanka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

The book is now available across Indian bookstores and online on\u00a0Amazon in India<\/a>\u00a0and currently on Kindle in the\u00a0United Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0United States and worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, articles about\u00a0the book have been published in the\u00a0Times of India<\/a>\u00a0and long\u00a0extracts have\u00a0appeared in the\u00a0Times of India+<\/a>,\u00a0the Hindu<\/a>,\u00a0the Wire<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Scroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor (Dr.) Swati Narayan, Associate Professor at Jindal School of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dec-2023","tag-faculty-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9687,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions\/9687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}