The Foundation for Agrarian Studies supports the research of M.Phil, and Ph.D. scholars who are interested in the field of agrarian studies and different socio-economic aspects of rural life in India. Interested scholars can visit the Research Announcements page. A list of FAS student research collaborators follows.

Completed Ph.Ds

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

A. Bheemeshwar Reddy
Aspects of Intergenerational Economic Mobility in India

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

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

Deepak Kumar
Scale and Type of Agricultural Production in Contemporary Underdeveloped Economies: A Case of Rural India

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

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

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

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

Tapas Singh Modak
Groundwater Irrigation in West Bengal after 1990: Policies, Institutional Arrangements and its Implications for Farm Households

Ranjini Basu
Land Reforms in West Bengal: A Study ofits Movement and Implementation

Deepak Johnson
Rice Incomes and Farm Policy: Case Studies from Kerala and Vietnam

S. Niyati
Women’s Labour in Rice Cultivation

R. Vijayamba
Women in Livestock Economy

Soham Bhattacharya
Agricultural Tenancy in Contemporary Rural India

B. Satheesha
Land, Labour, and Rural Livelihood Diversification in India

Completed M. Phils

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

Gaurav Bansal 
Tenancy and Accumulation: A Study of Capitalist Farm Sector in Punjab

Goutham Radhakrishnan 
An Assessment of the Agro-Meteorological Advisory Services of IMD and its Uptake by Farmers

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

Ongoing Ph.D Research

Ritam Dutta
A Study of Rural Household Indebtedness through the lens of Caste and Gender

Mrityunjay Pandey
Livelihood of Rural Workers: A Study of Labour, Migration and Tenancy in a Village of West Champaran

Kunal Munjal
Agricultural Commercialisation and Commodity Exchange

Completed MAs

Kunal Munjal
State and Farmers: An Enquiry into the Political Economy of Cost and Prices in Agricultural Crop Production in India

Other scholars whose research has been supported by FAS