Chapters in Published Books

2015 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Exploring the legacy of three innovative programmes: What educational policy and practice learnt from Lok Jumbish,Shiksha Karmi and Mahila Samakhya. In AK Singh (Ed) Education and Empowerment in India: Policies and Practices. Routledge India.

2015 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Democratic Inequalities – the dilemma of elementary education in India. In N V Varghese and Madhumita Bandhopadhayay (Ed) book on Democracy and Education. NUEPA. New Delhi.

2015 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Equity, quantity and quality: The precarious balancing act in Indian Schools, in Knut Axel Jacob son (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India.Norway.(ISBN978- 0-415-73865-1).

2014 - Ramachandran,Vimala: Gendered Inequalities in Education. In Devaki Jain and CP Sujaya (Ed): Indian Women Revisited.Publications Division of Government of India.2014. (ISBN-978-81-230-1799- 0).

2009 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Quality, the Heart of Equity, in Cohen, Joe lE., and Martin B. Malin, eds. 2009. International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education. New York: Routledge.

2009 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Democratic Inequalities: The Dilemma of Elementary Education in India, in Robert Cowen and Andrea M Kazamias (ed), International Handbook of Comparative Education, Volume II, Springer International Handbook of Education Series, The Netherlands.

2009 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Systemic barriers to equity in education, in Preet Rustagi (Ed) Concerns, conflicts and cohesions: Universalisation of Elementary Education in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

2008 - Ramachandran, Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee: Through the Life Cycle of Children: Factors that facilitate / Impede successful primary school completion; in Rama Baru (Ed) School Health Services in India: The Social ad Economic Contexts, Sage Publications, New Delhi.

2008 - Ramachandran, Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee: Through the Life Cycle of Children: Factors that facilitate / impede successful primary school completion, in Rama Baru (Ed) School Health Services in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi.

2007 - Ramachandran, Vimala: A school in every village –the Education Guarantee Scheme in Madhya Pradesh, India, in Deepa Narayan and Elena Glinskaya (Ed) Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work, World Bank, Washington DC.

2006 - Ramachandran, Vimala and Aarti Saihjee: The New Segregation in Primary Education – Implications for Local Governance, in Amit Prakash (Ed), Local Governance in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

2002 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Literacy, Development and Empowerment: Conceptual Issues, for edited book on Gender Gap in Basic Education Edited by Dr. Rekha Wazir; Sage Publication, New Delhi.

2002 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Education and the status of women; in India Education Report Edited by Dr Govinda, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

1998 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Voluntary organisation, professional agency or sub-contractor - the changing profile of the non-government sector in India, Dr. Pravin Visaria, M L Dantwala and Harsh Sethi (Eds.) Social Change through voluntary action, Sage Publications New Delhi, September.

1996 - Ramachandran, Vimala: Redefining Safety Net: in N Rao, L Rurap and R Sudarshan (Eds.): Sites of Change: The Structural Context for Empowering Women in India, UNDP / FES.