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Season 2 Episode 1

Irrigation Regimes in Rural Bengal

For the first episode of FAS Young Scholars’ Corner Season 2, we spoke to Tapas Modak, Associate Fellow, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the changing patterns of irrigation in rural West Bengal.

Reading List:

1.

Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in West Bengal – Aparajita Bakshi and Tapas Modak.

2.

Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh and West Bengal, 1949-1980 – Boyce J.

3.

Public to Private Irrigation: Implications for Equity in Access to Water – Tapas Modak.

4.

The energy-irrigation nexus and its impact on groundwater markets in eastern Indo-Gangetic basin: Evidence from West Bengal, India – Aditi Mukherji.

5.

Water Resource Management: Institutional and Irrigation Development in India – Vaidyanathan A.

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