Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 223-238, June 2022. The reverse migration of workers at the beginning of the first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic forcefully crystalised underlying issues such as poverty, hunger and the precarious lives o…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 203-222, June 2022. This article analyses the lived experiences of migrant workers in India under different regimes of coal mining and engages with their contemporary precarious labouring conditions and resilienc…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 324-326, June 2022. Praveen Kumar Jha, Coolie Lines. (Hindi) Vani Prakashan, 2019, 286 pp., ₹410, ISBN: 978-93-88684-04-0 (Hardcover)
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 308-316, June 2022. Abhishek Jha (Ed. & Trans.), Traster Shikarbakar: Nirbachito Miya Kabita [Roots of the Oppressed: Select Miya Poetry]. (Bengali) Boibashik, 2019, 56 pp., ₹120, ISBN: 978-93-88747-05-9 (Pap…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 187-202, June 2022. In this article, I explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of migrant cab drivers in the Indian city of Hyderabad. Drawing on ethnographic data collected before and during the…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 322-324, June 2022. Arvind Mohan, Bihari Mazdooron ki Peeda [The Pains of Bihari Labourers], (Hindi) Radhakrishna Prakashan, New Delhi, 2017, ₹172 pp., ISBN: 978-81-8361-847-2 (Hardcover).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 317-319, June 2022. Vinod Kapri, 1232 km: The Long Journey Home. HarperCollins, India, 2021, 232 pp, ₹399, ISBN13: 9789354226519 (Paperback).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 319-321, June 2022. Abhishek Saha, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis, HarperCollins, 2021, 303 pp., ₹599, ISBN-10 9390351855 (Paperback).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 291-307, June 2022. The Partition of 1947 saw approximately 8 million Hindus and Sikhs leave Pakistan to settle in India and 6–7 million Muslims leave India to settle in Pakistan between 1947 and 1951. This artic…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 239-256, June 2022. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study of 30 internal migrants working in informal occupations in Delhi, I show that the everyday lived experience of these migrants in India is negotiated by…