Madhura Swaminathan

Madhura Swaminathan
Madhura Swaminathan is professor and head of the Economic Analysis Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura
The fourth in the Socio-Economic Survey series of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), this book is a field report on agrarian relations in rural Tripura. It is based on a detailed household ...
Empirical study of women’s work and of women in the diverse labour processes that exist in rural India is meagre. This book seeks to extend our understanding of the nature of women’s work in di...
Dalit Households in Village Economies
Madhura Swaminathan, V. K. Ramachandran
Caste is an institution of oppression and social discrimination specific to South Asia, more so to India. Central to the caste system were the status assigned to the Dalit people and the criminal p...
Socio-economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh
Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan, V. K. Ramachandran
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Karnataka
Madhura Swaminathan, Arindam Das
This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Karnataka, conducted by scholars associated with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. The study villages are Alab...

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