Peter Mayer is Associate Professor and Visting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. He has written on many aspects of Indian politics, international relations, economics, history, anthropology and sociology — especially the sociology of suicide. His recent publications have examined issues including: why elections in India appear to defy Duverger’s Law of party competition; the declining rate of massacres of India’s Dalits; and the multiple causes of murder for dowry in India’s states.