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Spatialised industrial strategies usually aim to bring about 'balanced regional growth'. My new paper in JAC looks at how different combinations of such strategies play out in agrarian peripheries. Open access, here: doi.org/10.1111/joac.70001
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Protests by garment workers in Bangladesh have shut down over 500 factories, demanding that their salaries be doubled. Many global fashion brands have sourced their clothes from there, and have long benefited from cheap labour and weak labour protections.
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Taking the book back to where it began as doctoral research. If they dislike it, I think the responsibility is at least partly theirs.😀 @CSASPOxford, @ODID_QEH
On Tuesday (20 October) at 2pm @ankitapandey110 will give the Modern South Asian Studies Seminar - 'Understanding Allyship through the history of Civil Liberties Activism in India'
All welcome @CSASPOxford
We'll be discussing Becoming Allies, and the question of why people become politically involved in causes and struggles that are not directly their own with @ankitapandey110
📅 Thursday, 22 October
⏰ 4:15pm-5:30pm
📍 1 West 3.103, University of Bath
We cannot wait to host @ankitapandey110 book talk @CDS_Bath that has everyone's interest!
A lovely afternoon at JNU talking and listening to people about my book. Grateful to @jnu_academic for inviting me, and to @SamimAsgorAli for recording. And, as ever, grateful to #JNU for the warmth, and generosity.
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This should be the photo of the year. Captures so much in one frame: solidarity, the human desire to be free, to be able to run, even fly! Raghu Rai would have been proud of the photographer!
Caption it?
(Original photo from @Dipankar_cpiml’s handle, I’ve just turned it B&W.)
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Marxists must take petty producers seriously, both in an intellectual sense and in a political sense.
Why?
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‘গত পঞ্চাশ বছর ধরে প্রভাত এবং উৎসা পট্টনায়ক শুধু আমাদের দেশের প্রধান অর্থনীতিবিদ নন, ওঁরা আমাদের সবার জন্য শিখিয়েছেন— আমাদের দেশের বাস্তবতা কী? আমাদের দেশের অর্থব্যবস্থার আসল চেহারা ওঁরা দেখিয়েছেন…।’
বলছেন জয়তী ঘোষ।
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Sharing our new article, with Snehashish Bhattacharya,“Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India”, now published in World Development. 🧵
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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#YoungScholarsConclave
Databases constitute an integral part of any research. What are some of the major datasets for studying rural India?
As part of the Young Scholars’ Conclave, this session will explore the different data sources essential to researching India’s rural economy.
The session will feature a special lecture by P. C. Mohanan, Former Acting Chairman, National Statistical Commission, speaking on secondary databases pertaining to the Indian economy, followed by a panel discussion featuring Rosa Abraham ( @rosaabraham6 ), Associate Professor, Azim Premji University ( @azimpremjiuniv ), throwing light on employment and labour related data; Arindam Das ( @Arindamdas1984 ), Joint Director, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, discussing the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI) database of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, and Deepak Johnson ( @deepakmercy ), Assistant Professor, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), speaking on datasets relevant to the study of agricultural income, yield and input use.
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My first in EPW, my first on agriculture, with @SukantaCU_ECO. This came out in spl West Bengal issue of EPW.
Call for papers to the Young Scholars' Conclave is open. This will be a generative space to discuss all things agrarian change...ECRs, apply!
#YoungScholarsConclave
Meet the Convenor of the Young Scholars’ Conclave 2026!
Barbara Harriss-White
A long-time collaborator of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Professor Barbara is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at the Max Weber Foundation for South Asian Studies, New Delhi. She has studied and taught rural transformations since 1969. barbarahw.in
She also chairs the Foundation for Agrarian Studies’ Young Scholars’ Online Seminar, a platform for young scholars working on agrarian studies and rural India to present their research and receive feedback from peers, expert discussants, and eminent scholars.
Meet and engage with many more experts at the Young Scholars’ Conclave.
Submit your abstract by September 9, 2026, to share your research and be part of this event.
For the abstract submission and more details about the event, visit: fas.org.in/industry-events/y…
#YSCBengaluru2026 #AgrarianResearch
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Delighted to be joining @thevimarsh_ for a conversation on my book Becoming Allies tomorrow. If you're interested in civil liberties, social movements, or democracy, do come along!
this will be fantastic! Asia-based ECRs, check this call out:
The DSA & @EADI Politics & Political Economy Study Group is hosting a @BritishAcademy-funded workshop on “Towards a Global South-driven Future for Development Studies”
📍 Bandung, Indonesia
📅 April 2027
⏰ Abstract by 30 Sep (Asia-based ECRs only)
buff.ly/jYoTsSG
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A deeply unsettling day for all of us at PARI.
Will always remember Sonya with fondness. Strength and love to P Sainath
As relevant here in the UK: "Building on and extending these, the notion of the politics of amplification advances an integrative framework that repositions amplification not as a strategy but as a mode of political practice"
Have a scroll please🙂! Happy that the Scroll.in has featured an excerpt from Becoming Allies.
scroll.in/article/1093248/a-…
@CambridgeUP, @JSIAJindal, @JindalGlobalUNI,@OSGAOxford
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AI can't do fieldwork (yet). It can't do archival work either. Plenty of interesting qs waiting to be asked and answered by actual effort. Don't let the anxieties/aspirations of quant scholars/secondary data merchants get to you.
This will be fantastic!
Becoming Allies is out now! It explores how civil liberties groups practice a “politics of amplification”, i.e., helping movement issues travel across institutions and arenas.
UK edition: amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Allies…
India edition: amazon.in/Becoming-Allies-Ci…
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more cross-pollination between social reproduction and agrarian studies means we see how a global geography of accumulation is reproducing agrarian lifeworlds. Always great to talk to @FeministOnMarx and @SaraStevano Next up, more on SR with Shirin Rai:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk…
great to speak at the EADI-DSA political economy & political ecology of land, labour & food working group today with partner in crime @SaraStevano! Thanks @CMihika and Rama Salla Dieng for having us & to the many who joined our conversation 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
@SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics
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See the tweet @ShamikaRavi, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the PM. Full of statistical fallacies and deliberate rhetorical inflation. Please see my points in the tweet chain. #EconTwitter @MamataOfficial @AITCofficial @abhishekaitc @MahuaMoitra @FinMinIndia
