FAS Young Scholars' Corner

For the fifth and final episode of FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Sandipan Baksi, Director, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the colonial administration's role in the modernisation of Indian agriculture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Reading List: 1. Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practises in Colonial India - Deepak Kumar and Bipasha Raha 2. The Impact of Agricultural Research in British India [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2120720] - Carl E. Pray 3. A History of Agriculture in India, Volume III: 1757-1947 - M. S. Randhawa 4. Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India - Prakash Kumar 5. The Hindi-Speaking Intelligentsia and Agricultural Modernisation in the Colonial Period [http://ras.org.in/the_hindi_speaking_intelligentsia_and_agricultural_modernisation_in_the_colonial_period] - Sandipan Baksi 6. The Dissemination of Modern Agricultural Knowledge in the Colonial Period: A Review of the Marathi Monthly Shetki aani Shetkari [http://ras.org.in/the_dissemination_of_modern_agricultural_knowledge_in_the_colonial_period] - Sandipan Baksi and Tushar Kamble

For the fourth episode of the FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Deepak Johnson, Associate Fellow, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the price and non-price factors affecting incomes from rice cultivation in Kerala and the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Deepak explains that non-price support measures like technological support need to complement price-related support to increase the incomes of rice cultivators. Reading List: 1. Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation: Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7] - John W. Mellor 2. Paddy Cultivation in Kerala [http://ras.org.in/paddy_cultivation_in_kerala] - Jayan Jose Thomas 3. Agricultural Land Policies and Their Impact on Agricultural Production and Peasants’ Lives in Viet Nam Today [http://www.ras.org.in/agricultural_land_policies_and_their_impact_on_agricultural_production_and_peasants_lives_in_viet_nam_today] - Pham Van Duc 4. Impact of Economic Liberalization on Rice Intensification, Agricultural Diversification, and Rural Livelihoods in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam [https://kyoto-seas.org/pdf/42/4/420407.pdf] - Jean-François Le Coq and Guy Trebuil 5. Observations from the Fieldwork in Kerala [https://fas.org.in/rice-cultivation-in-kole-wetlands-of-kerala/] - Deepak Johnson 6. Observations from the Fieldwork in Mekong Delta [https://fas.org.in/fieldwork-in-an-giang-vietnam/] - Deepak Johnson

For the third episode of the FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Shruti Nagbhushan, Research Scholar, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, London, about the differentiated labour conditions of women in rural India. Reading List: * Women and Work in Rural India [https://fas.org.in/publications/agrarian-studies-series/women-and-work-in-rural-india/] - Edited by Madhura Swaminathan, Shruti Nagbhushan and VK Ramachandran * Sources of Energy and “Time-Poverty” Among Rural Women [https://fas.org.in/sources-of-energy-and-time-poverty-among-rural-women/] - Shruti Nagbhushan * Energy Strategies for Rural India: Evidence from Six States [http://imagebank.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet] - Barnes, D. F., & Sen, M. * Gender and Livelihoods Impacts of Clean Cookstoves in South Asia [http://cleancookstoves.org/resources/357.html] - Bloomfield, E. * How Does Time Poverty Affect Behavior? A Look at Eating and Physical Activity [https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps034] - Kalenkoski, C. M., Hamrick, K.S.

For the second episode of the FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Arindam Das, Joint Director, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the stagnant wages in the countryside in India and the resultant sufferings endured by the workers. Reading List: * Agricultural Wages in India: A Reliability Analysis [https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/inijae/234575.html] - Rao, V. M. * Agricultural Wages in India [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4378664] - Jose, A. V. * Trends in Agricultural Wages in India 1964–65 to 1999–2000 [https://www.epw.in/journal/2006/38/special-articles/trends-agricultural-wages-india.html] - Pallavi Chavan and Rajshree Bedamatta * Rural Wages in India: Recent Trends and Determinants [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41027-017-0052-9] - Himanshu and Sujata Kundu * Methodology of Data Collection Unsuited to Changing Rural Reality: A Study of Agricultural Wage Data in India [http://ras.org.in/methodology_of_data_collection_unsuited_to_changing_rural_reality] - Yoshifumi Usami, Arindam Das and Madhura Swaminathan

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 [https://fas.org.in/publications/socio-economic-surveys-series/reports-from-three-villages-in-west-bengal/], Edited by Aparajita Bakshi and Tapas Modak 2. Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh and West Bengal, 1949-1980 [https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/98/389/210/5190424?redirectedFrom=fulltext], Boyce J. 3. Public to Private Irrigation: Implications for Equity in Access to Water [http://ras.org.in/from_public_to_private_irrigation], Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Tapas Modak 4. Sonar Bangla: Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh, Rogaly B., Harris-White B., and Bose 5. Water Resource Management: Institutional and Irrigation Development in India [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/water-resource-management-9780195658842?lang=en&cc=nz], Vaidyanathan A.