The second session of the FAS Young Scholars’ Online Seminar Series 2022-23 featuring Srishti Yadav, Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, will be held on May 26, 2022. Srishti has recently finished her PhD from the New School for Social Research, New York. She will be speaking about her research on “Caste, Diversification, and the Contemporary Agrarian Question in India – A Field Perspective.”
Srishti’s research seeks to analyse agrarian class relations in Sangli, a village in Rewari district in southern Haryana, in light of the linkages of agricultural households with non-agricultural economic activities.
She finds that agricultural surpluses allow upper-caste and better-off landowning households to diversify into businesses or formal employment. Alternatively, landownership provides a fail-safe against precarious daily wage work, which is the only type of work available to lower-caste landless households. This segmentation of diversification opportunities is understood as conjugated oppression resting on caste and land ownership.
Paramjit Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Panjab University, will be the discussant. Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, University of Oxford, will Chair the session.
A Q&A session, moderated by the Chair, will follow the presentation.
For more details, contact us at events[at]fas[dot]org[dot]in.