
MA, MPhil, PhD
Political Economy of Agrarian Change, Economic Transformation of Mountain Economies, Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Institutions, Migration, and Human Development
Professor, CSRD, JNU (2010 onwards)
Associate Professor, CSRD, JNU (2004-2010)
Lecturer-in-Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University (1999-2004)
* ICCR Chair Professor, International Centre for South Asian Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russian Federation, Feb-June 2012.
* Commonwealth Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK , Oct 2008-April 2009.
* South Asian Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Dec 2006-February 2007.
* Sanjay Thakur Young Labour Economist Award for the Year 2002 by the Indian Society of Labour Economics, New Delhi.
* Team Member, Oxford University Project on Resource, Greenhouse gases, Technology and Jobs in India's Informal Economy: The Case of Rice.
* Research Collaboration Geographically Uneven Development in India: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Research Grant 2014-15; SSHRC, Insight Grant, 2016-20 in collaboration with York University, Toronto.
- (2009) `Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transition: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Arunachal Pradesh, India’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 9(4):512-547. (with Barbara Harriss-White and V Upadhyay).
- (2011) `Environmental Resource Consumption Pattern in Rural Arunachal Pradesh’, Forest Policy and Economics, 13(3):166-170 (with A Mitra).
- (2013) 'Developing the Border: The State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh' in David N. Gellner (edited) Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, Duke University Press, Durham, pp.141-162.
- (2015) ‘Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India’ in Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer (edited) Mapping India’s Capitalism: Old and New Regions, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp.9-41. (with Barbara Harriss-White).
- (2015) ‘Agrarian Relations and Institutional Diversity in Arunachal Pradesh’ in Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer (edited) Indian Capitalism in Development, Routledge, London, pp. 66-83.
- (2012) The Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility, London and New Delhi: Routledge. (with V Upadhyay and A Sarma).
- (2016) Edited. Internal Migration in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Sage.
- (2017) Edited. Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Changing Dynamics, London: Routledge. (with V Upadhyay).
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