The book titled Women and Work in Rural India, edited by Madhura Swaminathan, Shruti Nagbhushan, and V. K. Ramachandran, and published by Tulika Books and the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), was released on August 25, 2020.
Congratulations to R. Ramakumar
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) congratulates R. Ramakumar, Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, for being awarded the Bernstein & Byres Prize in Agrarian Change for 2017, for his article ‘Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India’.
Address by the Chairperson on the occasion of the First FAS Annual Public Lecture
I am indeed honoured to have this opportunity to make an intervention on the occasion of the public lecture by Dr M. S. Swaminathan. I am an activist of the All India Kisan Sabha, the oldest and the largest peasant organization in the country. The All India Kisan Sabha, since its inception in 1936 onwards, has consistently argued in favour of using advancements in science and technology to increase agricultural production and productivity.
A Prestigious Award for Jun-ichi Okabe
The Japan Society of Economic Statistics has presented its 2017 Award to Jun-ichi Okabe, Professor, Yokohama National University, for the book he wrote with Aparajita Bakshi, A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry into Village Panchayat Databases, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
Visit to Kolar Chikkaballapura Milk Union Ltd (KOMUL)
As part of the project titled “Women’s Work in Agriculture and Rural Production in India”, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a week-long pilot time-use survey of women in Siresandra village of Kolar district from May 11 to 19, 2017. Fourteen women from different socio-economic backgrounds were chosen for the study.
A Report on the Socio-Economic Survey of Households in Taliparamba Constituency
This is a report on a socio-economic survey of households conducted in Taliparamba legislative constituency in Kannur district, Kerala. The survey was conducted at the direction of James Mathew, the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the constituency and as part of an Integrated Social Security Project.