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There’s a growing anti-migrant sentiment in Punjab and Haryana, one that we cannot afford. In this opinion piece in today’s HT I unpack why our economies are so heavily dependent on migrants from UP and Bihar.
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We lost our colleague and friend Anwar Shaikh yesterday. The moment is still too shocking and raw to offer a fitting celebration of his contributions to critical and radical economic thinking across five decades. For now, let his own words to @histmat journal describe the analytical and political visions Anwar left for us.
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Anwar Shaikh ist gestorben. Er war der wohl wichtigste lebende antikapitalistische Ökonom – weil er den Kapitalismus verstanden hatte. Und er hat dieses Wissen an Generationen weitergegeben.
Das Foto hab ich 2023 auf einer Party in der @NSSRNews gemacht.
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We have added a few more essays on distinguished Indian economists from the past. And will keep adding in the future as well.
Want some respite from the mayhem? Here is a series of essays on 29 distinguished Indian economists from the past, whose work still informs our present. More entries will be added in the coming months. What follows is a thread on the individual entries.
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From fieldwork I’ve found that migrants usually work on piece rates, which eliminates need for supervision as it’s on labourers to finish as many acres as possible to earn more. More than anything else cultivators prize migrants for their discipline and long working hours.
Acc to my calculations on SAS 19-20, agri L costs in PN, HR for paddy households are much lower than in southern states and closer to those reported in Odisha. For wheat households it’s even lower than that in UP, Bihar! Reason is that migrants provide agri L at harvest time
This reflects in access to regular salaried empt — high for Others, OBC but also at ~33% for SC workers in these states (national fig for SCs is 20%) acc to PLFS 22-23. UCs in these states want white-collar work; blue-collar reg sal emp’t becomes the preserve of landless/SC.
PN and HR have among the best performing agri sectors in the country. The gains from Green Revolution have allowed aspirations to rise for both landowning cultivators and landless in PN and HR (and the plateauing of these gains makes moving out of agri as imperative).
The most fun I’ve had with research in the last few months was this conversation on what qualitative methods can bring to feminist economics, as part of a new series initiated by @IAFFE. youtu.be/Dfdvp0WESfQ?si=M1X-…
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“Peasants: Makers of the Modern World” – born from five years of field research across Asia, Africa and Latin America, out on 26 Sep 2026. A book that restores peasants to their place as agents of history & reveals the unfolding crisis of the global countryside. @BloomsburyBooks
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📢Call for Papers: "Dreams, Dilemmas, Discontent: Youth in Contemporary India"
We seek abstracts exploring the aspirations, anxieties, and agency of Indian youth, focusing on topics such as education, employment, digital lives, identity, and mental well-being.
Move beyond the headlines. Contribute to a critical dialogue.
Submit by 30th October 2025
Details: azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/…
#CallForPapers #YouthInIndia #Sociology #Research #CFP
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1/ 🎓✨ #PhDdone 💯✅
Big news — I’m pleased to share that I officially passed my PhD last month! ✨🎓
A long and enriching journey, full of challenges & opportunities, has come to an end. I feel privileged to have completed a fully funded PhD at @developmentuea @uniofeastanglia
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The Inlaks-King's India Institute visiting PhD fellowship scheme is open again for applications (deadline August 31st). Two 3 month fellowships at King's for students in a PhD programme in Hums and Social Sciences at an Indian university
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1 FULL DAY of HET with Heinz Kurz in Bengaluru at Vidyashilp University in association with the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET).
📅 4 July
There will be ample time for informal conversations.
Register here for attending the in-person event: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
@_ISHET @Societies_HET @rethinkecon
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🎥 Excited to share the recording of my paper presented at the Economy & Society in India conference (IIT Bombay, Jan 2025)! In this presentation, I explore caste & class in shaping rural capital accumulation in India—part of my PhD research.
🔗youtube.com/watch?v=WHWldn34…
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Exciting lecture series by @_ISHET on the history of econ thought by Chirashree Das Gupta. Interested in concepts like rent and capital in different economic traditions? This is for you. On 14th, 21st, 28th June, and 5th July.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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For 25 years of @AgrarianChange: 'What is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?', by Haroon Akram-Lodhi, @Srishting, @FeministOnMarx and @MET_climate, is a new, open access, article in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Check it out on: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
