Madhura Swaminathan

Madhura Swaminathan
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Karnataka
This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Karnataka conducted by scholars associated with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. The study villages are Alabu...
Socio-Economic Surveys of Two Villages in Rajasthan
This is the second in a series of field reports on village surveys conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. This report deals with agrarian relations in two villages of Rajasthan: Rewasi i...
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh
This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Andhra Pradesh conducted by scholars of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. The study villages are Ananthavaram ...
Financial Liberalization and Rural Credit in India
Financial liberalization after 1991 damaged the formal system of institutional credit in rural India severely. It represented a clear and explicit reversal of the policy of social and development b...
The transformation of rural societies in the third world in the era of globalization is one of the most significant processes of social change in the contemporary world. The majority of the people ...
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura
The fourth in the Socio-Economic Survey series of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), this book is a field report on agrarian relations in rural Tripura. It is based on a detailed household ...
This volume examines the characteristics and viability of small producers in different agro-ecological regions of India, locating them in the broader context of the capitalist development of Indian...
Empirical study of women’s work and of women in the diverse labour processes that exist in rural India is meagre. This book seeks to extend our understanding of the nature of women’s work in di...

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Amit Kumar Gupta
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Madhusree Dutta
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Maya Gupta
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Ari Sitas
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Zakir Husain College
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Amalendu Guha
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Himani Bannerji
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Shereen Ratnagar
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C.P. Chandrasekhar
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Arindam Dutta
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Achin Vanaik
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Mrityunjay Tripathi
Mrityunjay Tripathi is Assistant Professor in the Hindi programme at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He has translated the autobiography of Mallikarjun Mansur into Hindi (Ras Yatra), and a Hind

Ruth Rosengarten
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K. N. Panikkar
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S. Irfan Habib
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Geeta Kapur
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