Completed Ph. Ds

Aparajita Bakshi
Rural Household Incomes: A Study of Rural West Bengal

Niladri Sekhar Dhar
Employment and Earnings of Labour Households in Rural India: A Study of Andhra Pradesh

Partha Saha
Land Relations and Asset Holdings: A Study Based on Village-Level Evidence from Uttar Pradesh

Anupam Sarkar
Mechanisation in Contemporary Indian Agriculture: Nature of Ownership and Use

Shamsher Singh
Access to Basic Amenities: A Sociological Study of Villages in Selected States of India

Completed M. Phils

Aravindhan Nagarajan
Risk Perceptions of Farmers Cultivating GM Crops: Observations from Bt Cotton Cultivators in Maharashtra

Ranjini Basu
Land Reforms and Changing Land Tenural Systems: A Study in Cooch Behar District of West Bengal

Ongoing Ph. D Research

A. Bheemeshwar Reddy
Aspects of Intergenerational Economic Mobility in India

Biplab Sarkar
The Economics of Household Farming: A Study with Special Reference to West Bengal

R. V. Bhavani
Rural Credit Outreach in India in the Reform Period: A Study with Special Reference to Karnataka

Yasodhara Das
Migration from Rural India: A Study of West Bengal

Other scholars whose research has been supported by FAS

Category Year Awardee Subject of research Institution
FAS Senior 
Ph. D Scholarship		 2003 Himanshu Rural Income,Employment and Agricultural Growth:
An Analysis with Disaggregated Data		 Jawaharlal Nehru University
2004 Vijoo Krishnan Impact of Neo-Liberal Economic Policies on the Indian Peasantry:
A Comparative Study of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, 1990-2002		 Jawaharlal Nehru University
FAS Junior
Ph. D Scholarship		 2004 Arindam Banerjee The Impact of Neo-Liberal Economic Policies on Land Distribution and the Mode of Production in Indian Agriculture Jawaharlal Nehru University
FAS Research Paper Grant 2003 Bindu P. Verghese Marginalised Community in an Agrarian Society:
A Study of Tribes in Kerala		 Dr. John Mathai Centre, Department of Economics, University of Calicut
2004 Reji K. Joseph Agricultural Reforms and Farmers’ Suicides:
A Study of Cotton Cultivators in Andhra Pradesh		 Jawaharlal Nehru University
FAS Fieldwork Grant 2003 Rakesh Ranjan Agrarian Structure, Stagnation and Growth in Bihar, 1960-2000 Jawaharlal Nehru University
2003 Vijoo Krishnan Impact of Neo-Liberal Economic Policies on the Indian Peasantry:
A Comparative Study of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, 1990-2002		 Jawaharlal Nehru University
2003 R. Gopinath Agrarian Changes in Tamil Nadu:
A Resurvey of Two Villages		 Bharathidasan University
2003 Rajesh Kumar Social Exclusion/Inclusion of Traditional Communities as Affected by the Internal Development Process and Globalisation:
A Study on the Theyyam Performing Community in Northern Kerala		 Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
2003 Shilpy Nagalia Movements in Farmers’ Incomes in Uttar Pradesh in the Post-Independence Period, with Emphasis on the New Economic Policy Reforms Decade of the Nineties Jawaharlal Nehru University
2004 Mahender Singh Agriculture and Agrarian Life in South-East Punjab, 1858-1947 Panjab University
2004 M. Jayaprakash An Economic Analysis of Primary Co-Operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks in Karnataka Mysore University
2004 Nikhil Kumar Mandal Rural Credit, Agrarian Reform and Development:
A Case Study of West Bengal		 Visva-Bharati University
2004 M. Saravanan A Study on Changes in Land Holding Patterns and their Effects on Rural Economy Bharathidasan University
2004 R.Seenivasan A Study of the Efficacy of Selected Rural Development Programmes and Role of Panchayati Raj University of Madras
2004 R. Gopinath Agrarian Changes in Tamil Nadu:
A Resurvey of Two Villages		 Bharathidasan University