The paper analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security of tenure to
tenants and regulating the share of output that is paid as rent on farm productivity …

This paper presents the contrasting picture of groundwater irrigation, agricultural growth and
farm electricity consumption in Punjab and West Bengal. While Punjab, a semi-arid …

Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that
comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering …

Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal develo** country,
home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by …

To most of us the food that we associate with home—our national and familial homes—is an
essential part of our cultural heritage. No matter how open we become to other cuisines, we …

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There is a rich body of literature on arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater and its
consequences for human health via drinking water. Less is known however, on the impacts …

This paper explores the spatiality of caste and power in contemporary rural north India. I aim
to introduce the social institution of caste to a non‐specialist audience and illustrate how …

This article employs an actor–network (ANT) and materialist approach to examine the
changing relations among nature, society, and technology in dynamic groundwater-irrigated …

The success of the group approach in rural micro‐finance among women has inspired the
tendency to look at all networking as essentially good and desirable in rural community …