Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. This article examines the effects of parents’ educational backgrounds and career preferences on their children’s educational and employment opportunities in India’s various socio-religious groupings. …
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. Drawing on the ecologically unequal exchange theory, we assess whether palm oil exports from peripheral nations to India are related to increased forest loss in the peripheral nations in the context o…
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print.
Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 329-333, August 2023. Jelle J. P. Wouters (Ed.), Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 413 pp. ₹1,795, ISBN: 9…
Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 326-329, August 2023. Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (Eds.), Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), 246 pp., ₹36….
Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 321-325, August 2023. Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George Jose, Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2022), 257 pp., £32.39. ISB…
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. This article discusses protest efforts undertaken by platform-based food delivery workers during the first wave of the pandemic. Following the lockdown, food delivery platforms were categorized as ‘es…
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted gig work in urban areas across India. In this article, we investigate the nature of responses from gig workers at a time of no or partial work. The platform stu…
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. When children are able to progress beyond their parents’ education level, that is, when there is upward intergenerational education mobility—they are more likely to have better opportunities and acces…
Journal of South Asian Development, Ahead of Print. The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has…