Journal of South Asian Development

2006 - 2026

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2023

India’s Gig Economy Workers at the Time of Covid-19: An Introduction pp. 343-358

Geert De Neve, Kaveri Medappa and Rebecca Prentice

Off-platform Social Networks and Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India pp. 359-382

Rajorshi Ray and Jillet Sarah Sam

Rethinking Mutual Aid Through the Lens of Social Reproduction: How Platform Drivers Ride Out Work and Life in Bengaluru, India pp. 383-408

Kaveri Medappa

The Political Economy of Gig Work in the Pandemic: Social Hierarchies and Labour Control of Indian Platform Workers pp. 409-430

Gayatri Nair

Learning to Strike in the Gig Economy: Mobilization Efforts by Food Delivery Workers in Hyderabad, India pp. 431-456

Mohammad Sajjad Hussain

Agrarian Urbanism and Vernacular Capital in India pp. 457-462

Carol Upadhya

Book review: Gunjan Sharma. 2021. Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins: Ethnography of Education in the Indian Context pp. 463-466

Tamali Halder

Volume 18, issue 2, 2023

Imagining, Conceiving and Implementing Development: Diaspora Philanthropic Interventions in Post-War Sri Lanka pp. 169-192

Mohamed Munas and Lothar Smith

‘From Plot to People’: A Photovoice Exploration of South Asian Farmer Livelihood Diversification Strategies When Extra Time and Money are Found Through Zero Tillage Adoption pp. 193-220

Brendan Brown, Akriti Sharma, Emma Karki and Anjana Chaudhary

TÄ qat, Shakti or Empowerment(s)? Describing the Experience of Power: A Decade of Observations in one Informal Settlement of Patna, India pp. 221-243

Hugo Ribadeau Dumas

A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 244-264

Anirudh Krishna, Sujeet Kumar and Emily Rains

Groundwater Markets in South Asia: A Bibliometric Assessment of Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Irrigation Development pp. 265-294

Dishant Parakh and Sriroop Chaudhuri

Covid on the Coast: Pandemic Governance and Protests in Fishing Villages in South Kerala, India pp. 295-320

Johnson Jament, Max Martin, M.S. Visakh and Filippo Osella

Book review: Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George Jose, Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing pp. 321-325

Kaveri Medappa

Book review: Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (Eds.), Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography pp. 326-329

Suchismita Chattopadhyay

Book review: Jelle J. P. Wouters (Ed.), Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity pp. 329-333

Vibha Joshi

Volume 18, issue 1, 2023

Modes of Technology Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity and Indian Manufacturing Sector: Firm-Level Analysis pp. 7-43

Kawaljeet Kaur and Swati Mehta

The Effect of Women’s Empowerment on Intimate Partner Violence and Child Nutrition Outcomes in India, Nepal, and Pakistan pp. 44-69

Vedika Inamdar, Anirudh Tagat and Aneree Parekh

Exploring ‘Country Ownership’: An Analysis of Development Cooperation Practices of Selected European Partners in Bangladesh pp. 70-89

Mohammad Mizanur Rahman and Fahim Quadir

Experimental Evidence on Group-based Attendance Bonuses in Team Production pp. 90-110

Theresa Chaudhry, Zunia Tirmazee and Umair Ayaz

Varied Aspirations and ‘Development’: Three Spaces of Kurseong pp. 111-133

Lasang Lepcha

The Effect of Development-induced Displacement on Adivasis: Evidence from the Rourkela Steel Plant Project in India pp. 134-154

John Kujur

Book review: Pankaj Sekhsaria. 2020. Nano Scale: Society’s Deep Impact on Science, Technology and Innovation in India pp. 155-158

Aniket Aga

Volume 17, issue 3, 2022

Interstate Migration in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis Based on Mobile Visitor Location Register and Roaming Data pp. 271-296

Arif Nizam, P. Sivakumar and S. Irudaya Rajan

When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration pp. 297-326

Alessandra Mezzadri and Kaustav Banerjee

Development Schemes and the Hill District: Studying State–Society Relationship in Manipur pp. 327-346

Tanmoy Das

Who Moved my Welfare Scheme? Federalism and the Politics of Credit Attribution in Rural India pp. 347-381

Priyanshu Gupta, Anuj Goyal and Rajesh Bhattacharya

Shrinking Civil Space? Exploring State and Civil Society Perspectives on the Contemporary Situation of Human Rights Defenders in South Asia pp. 382-408

Paul Chaney

State Capacity, Ideology and the Management of COVID-19 in South Asia: India and Sri Lanka in Perspective pp. 409-415

Wilfried Swenden, Papia Sengupta, Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Aardra Surendran and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Book review: Adrian Athique and Vibodh Parthasarathi (Eds). 2020. Platform Capitalism in India pp. 416-419

Suryansu Guha

Book review: Sanjib Baruah. 2020. In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast pp. 420-422

Chandreyee Goswami

Book review: Shruti Chaudhry. 2021. Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy and Women’s Lives in Rural North India pp. 423-425

Paro Mishra

Volume 17, issue 2, 2022

The Growth Volatility Relationship: A Spatial Panel Analysis of the States of India pp. 155-177

Anuradha Patnaik

Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India pp. 178-194

Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Jogasankar Mahaprashasta

Valuing Women’s Labour: Some Notes on the ‘Compensated’ Model of Surrogacy pp. 195-209

Aishwarya Chandran

Beyond Morality: The Moral Economy Framework and the Fisheries in Mumbai pp. 210-229

Gayatri Nair

The Gender of Fuelwood: Headloads and Truckloads in India pp. 230-259

Meena Khandelwal, Matthew E. Hill, Margaret Beck, Sanoop Valappanandi and Hrushikesh Mahapatra

Book review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves pp. 260-263

Aniruddha Jena

Volume 17, issue 1, 2022

Globalization and the Changing Geography of Social Life in Rural Kerala pp. 7-31

Mijo Luke

Drought, Farm Output and Heterogeneity: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 32-56

Hadia Majid

Exploring the Drivers of Vulnerability Among Disadvantaged Internal Migrants in Riverbank Erosion Prone Areas in North-West Bangladesh pp. 57-83

Mohammad Ehsanul Kabir and Palash Kamruzzaman

Globalization Versus Slowbalization: A Perspective on the Indian Economy pp. 84-107

Shikha Gupta and Nand Kumar

The Sociotechnical System of Silk Weaving in Bishnupur Region in West Bengal pp. 108-133

Abhradip Banerjee and Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti

Structural Violence and Normalising Human Suffering: Labour Migration During the COVID Pandemic in India pp. 134-140

Priya Deshingkar

Book review: Erik De Maaker and Meenal Tula. 2020. Unequal Land Relations in Northeast India: Custom, Gender and Market pp. 141-143

Debojyoti Das

Book review: Nikita Sud. 2021. The Making of Land and the Making of India pp. 144-148

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Volume 16, issue 3, 2021

Revisiting Green Neoliberalism in India through the Lens of Market-Based Restoration and Reforestation Projects pp. 327-341

Sarah Benabou and Arne Harms

Uphill Battle: Forest Rights and Restoration on Podu Landscapes in Keonjhar, Odisha pp. 342-366

Laura M. Valencia

Three Ways of Seeing a Forest: On the Social Life of Economization in Indian Carbon Forestry pp. 367-386

Arne Harms

Carbon Forests at the Margins of the State: The Politics of Indigenous Sovereignty and Market Environmentalism in the North-eastern Hills of India pp. 387-413

Sarah Benabou

The Judicial Fix for Forest Loss: The Godavarman Case and the Financialization of India’s Forests pp. 414-432

Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli

State, Labour and Emerging Natural Resource Regimes: A Case Study of Forest- Based Livelihoods in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh pp. 433-454

S. Krithi

Volume 16, issue 2, 2021

Using Farmers’ Risk Tolerance to Explain Variations in Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in Nepal pp. 171-193

Toritseju Begho

Land Acquisition, Markets and Political Networks: Evidence from the Indian Sundarbans pp. 194-219

Prasenjit Sarkhel and Anirban Mukherjee

Politics of Development in Pakistan: From the Post-Independence Modernization Project to ‘Vision 2025’ pp. 220-243

Aliya Abbasi

Shadow Education in India: Participation and Socioeconomic Determinants pp. 244-272

Indal Kumar and Indrani Roy Chowdhury

Exploring the Origins of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness pp. 273-292

Katsu Masaki and Jit Tshering

Exports and Inequality: Evidence from the Highly Concentrated Textile and Garment Sector of Bangladesh pp. 293-309

Md. Iqbal Bhuyan and Keun-Yeob Oh

Book review: Maria Rashid. 2020. Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army pp. 310-313

Sanaullah Khan

Book review: Tom Barnes. 2018. Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality pp. 313-315

Andrew Sanchez

Book review: Debojyoti Das. 2018. The Politics of Swidden Farming: Environment and Development in Eastern India pp. 315-318

Felix Padel

Volume 16, issue 1, 2021

Reading the Entanglements of Nature-culture Conservation and Development in Contemporary India pp. 7-32

Krupa Rajangam and Aparna Sundar

Frenemies: Marine Turtle Conservation and Economic Development in the Rushikulya Coast, Eastern India pp. 33-53

Madhuri Ramesh

Conservation is Development in the Forests of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, India pp. 54-74

Priya Gupta

Bridging Development and Heritage: Expert Gaze, Local Discourses, and Visual Aesthetic Crisis at Hampi World Heritage Site pp. 75-99

Krupa Rajangam

Innovation Challenges in South Asia: Evidence from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India pp. 100-129

Fatma Karaman Kabadurmus

Decentralization and Its Impact on Growth in India pp. 130-151

Fernanda Andrade de Xavier, Aparna P. Lolayekar and Pranab Mukhopadhyay

Book review: Alf Gunvald Nilsen. 2018. Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland pp. 152-155

Jeffrey Witsoe

Book review: Jonathan Parry (in collaboration with Ajay T. G.). 2019. Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town pp. 155-161

John Harriss and Ashwin Subramanian