Gender and Craftwork in Rural Society: The Role of Education by Nidhi Gaur (2024): A Review by Parvathi Krishnan
Nidhi Gaur’s Gender and Craftwork in Rural Society: The Role of Education (published by Routledge in 2024) is a significant…
Between Resistance and Responsibility: Reimagining Rural Womanhood through Nakta – Anurag Kumar Bauddh
Introduction Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed many rituals and traditions that perplexed and at…
Becoming a Farmer Women in Rural West Bengal, India by Raktima Mukhopadhyay, Itishree Pattnaik and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (2023): A Review by Ritwika Patgiri
25 years ago, Nirmala Banerjee wrote the piece “How Real is the Bogey of Feminization?” in which she stated that…
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India by Vaibhav Saria (2021): A Review by Ankur Verma
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century – A Book Discussion with Surinder Singh Jodhka
Surinder Singh Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder Singh Jodhka (2023): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and…
Footloose and Bondage Labour and Agrarian Issues: An Interview with Jan Breman
Jan Breman is a Professor Emeritus at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. He has conducted…
Peasants, Movements and the Indian Agrarian Structure: An Interview with Debal K. SinghaRoy
Debal K. SinghaRoy is a Professor of Sociology in Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. His books include…
People’s Archive of Farmers’ Protests: An Introduction by Shamsher Singh
Shamsher Singh teaches Sociology at FLAME University, Pune. He has academic and research interests around the broad themes of agrarian…
Remembering India’s Villages edited by Santosh K. Singh (2021): A Review by Saravanan Velusamy
Remembering India’s Villages, edited by Santosh K. Singh and published by Aakar Books in 2021 is a compilation of research…