Drawing on longitudinal data from a Dalit-majority village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, change in household incomes is quantified and sources of income growth are identified. While household income has ...

The impact of prolonged economic slowdown, agrarian distress, demonetisation, the goods and services tax, and the COVID-19 pandemic on the rural workforce and earnings is examined. The determinants of ...

Antibiotics are one of the most significant medical developments of the 20th century. However, their widespread inclusion in therapeutic use has also developed adverse health implications. These are ...

Since 2004–05, the proportion of agricultural workers in the total workforce has declined rapidly. This trend slowed after 2012 and reversed during the pandemic, with signs of recovery evident in 2022 ...

In the mainstream literature, commercialisation of agriculture is studied in a linear fashion as a process of growth of surplus. However, the advance of productive forces that follow commercialisation ...

Reason empowers common citizens, but it is feared by the power that survives on unreason.

The consolidation of agricultural lands by dominant socio-economic groups is discussed in the context of contemporary debate on the land question by foregrounding market-led land transfers as a driver ...

The recent remarks on menstrual leave in the Indian Parliament raise many issues about the states’ understanding of menstruation and women’s body. The frequently used argument against menstrual leave ...

Writings from the Sundarbans edited by Indranil Acharya and Sayantan Dasgupta, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2023; pp 201, `690.

Understanding the dynamics of social networks is crucial for comprehending how communities adapt to social, economic, and technological changes. This paper analyses the evolution of village social ...

The rural economy and society have been in a period of transition. The transition is not only economic but also social and political. The last decade has seen rural areas witnessing several economic ...

Frugal technological activity through jugaad or frugal invention, collective and defensive technological strategies, or grassroots innovation can battle the lived experience of inequality, and perhaps ...