India Social Development Report is one of the flagship publications of CSD, brought out bi-annually by the Oxford University Press. The Report gives a picture of the social conditions prevailing in the country at the time of its publication and contains a number of well-researched, particularly empirical, papers on the specialised themes constituting the focus of the Report. In addition the Report carries a chapter ranking States on the basis of a Social Development Index (SDI) developed by the Council. The special themes covered by the Report so far have been Child Development in India, Development and Displacement, the Land Question and Marginalised, Minorities at the Margins, Challenges of Public Health and Disability Rights Perspectives.

List of India Social Development Report (ISDR)

1. India Social Development Report (2023): Women’s Contribution in the Economy/ Edited by Indira Hirway. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2024.
2. India Social Development Report (2018): Rising Inequalities in India/ Edited by T. Haque and D. Narasimha Reddy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2019.
3. Indian Social Development Report (2016): Disability rights perspectives / Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ashan Hans. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2017
4. India Social Development Report (2014): Challenges of Public Health / Edited by Imrana Qadeer. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2015
5. India Social Development Report (2012): Minorities at the Margins / Edited by Zoya Hasan, and Mushirul Hasan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012
6. India Social Development Report (2010): The Land question and the marginalized / Edited by Manoranjan Mohanty. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2011
7. India Social Development Report (2008): Development and Displacement / Edited by Hari Mohan Mathur. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2008.
8. India Social Development Report (2006) / Amitabh Kundu, Muchkund Dubey, N. J. Kurian, and Razia Ismail Abbasi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006.