Deepak K Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 125507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepak K Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepak K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7244-8280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Political economy of agrarian change and migration in Northeast India: A study of villages in Tamenglong district, Manipur
This paper examines the interlinkages between agrarian change and labour migration in a mountain context. Evidence from four Rongmei villages in Tamenglong district reveals changing agrarian relations and identifies the drivers and outcomes of outmigration from the hills. Our political economy framework integrates questions of ethnicity and identity to demonstrate that transformations in traditional community institutions facilitate the selective…
Agrarian Change and Accumulation in Central India: Revisiting the Agrarian Question of Capital
In this paper, we revisit the relevance of the agrarian question of capital and provide evidence of the dynamism in agriculture based on an empirical enquiry. We study the possibilities, channels and patterns of agrarian accumulation and its spillover on the nonagrarian accumulation dynamics in an agriculturally advanced region lying in central India. Based on this empirical study, we posit that the agrarian question of capital remains important …
Capitalist trajectories in agrarian mountain societies of east and south‐east Arunachal, India
While the mountainous frontier regions of Arunachal have generated a literature celebrating their exceptional social diversity, less is known about Arunachal's rural political economy. Following village fieldwork in 2007 in northern districts, research in 2015 in East and South‐east Arunachal enables two aspects of agrarian transformation to be explored. First a comparison of the institutional transformation of land‐based resources between region…
Agrarian Distress and Seasonal Out-migration: Insights from a Field Survey in North Bengal
A substantial section of India’s migrant labour force is pushed into precarious livelihoods in the informal economy. The circular dynamic of seasonal migration, taken to fill the recurrent voids in earnings and employment, is the only distress-ameliorating strategy of marginalised households and should not be equated with accumulative and aspirational forms of livelihood diversification. We analyse the processes behind the emergence of a mobile l…
Circular Labour Migration from Rural India: A Study of Out-Migration of Male Labour from West Bengal
Circular labour migration from rural areas has emerged as a key feature of the Indian economy. Generally seen as a positive development, because of its impact of remittances on the household economy of the migrants, circular migration has also been associated with exploitation and unfreedom of the migrant labour. This paper focuses on labour out-migration to the construction sector from one of the economically backward districts of West Bengal, I…
Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India
The nature and manifestations of the rural and agrarian distress in India point to the disastrous, class-specific nature of neoliberal economic policies. A significant aspect of this process is its spatial dimensions – the various ways through which uneven development has been the cornerstone of the unfolding dynamics of economic growth in globalizing India. The prolonged agrarian crisis, fuelled by neoliberal economic policies, has created a cri…
Agrarian Transformation and Changing Labour Relations in Kalahandi, Odisha
Examining the changes in production relations in one of the poorest rainfed belts in India, this study, based on field surveys in eight villages in Kalahandi and Nuapada districts of Odisha, unravels the complexities of the transition in agriculture. The introduction of irrigation has resulted in, an increase in yield, wage rates and labour-use per hectare. Comparison between the irrigated and the non-irrigated villages also suggest a drastic red…
Aménagement hydroélectrique et droits communautaires dans l'Himalaya oriental: Le cas de l’Arunachal Pradesh
Avec plus de cent soixante mémorandums d'accords signés avec des constructeurs de barrages, l'Etat d'Arunashal Pradesh, situé dans l'Himalaya, dans une région nord-orientale de l'Inde faisant limite avec la Chine, le Boutant et le Myanmar, occupe une place de choix dans les plans d'aménagement hydroélectrique de l'Inde. Cet état est le foyer d'environ vingt-cinq communautés autochtones, chacune avec ses différentes traditions culturelles et insti…
Public Distribution System in Uttar Pradesh: Access, Utilization and Impact
The public distribution system (PDS) in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous state, was widely recognized as dysfunctional. However, following the introduction of reforms in recent times, analysts have put this state in the category of “reviving” states. Against this backdrop, this article presents recent evidence of improved accessibility, utilization and impact of PDS in UP using data from the 68th Round of the National Sample Survey Offic…
Gender, ethnicity, and grassroots governance in Arunachal Pradesh, India
The presence of women in grassroots governance, it is argued, should strengthen their collective identity as women and create space for more inclusive politics. On the basis of a field survey in Arunachal Pradesh, India, this paper argues that the interrelationship between representation and inclusive governance is far more complex, particularly in the backdrop of ethnic politics and institutional diversity. Women representatives tend to work wit…
Inclusiveness in India: A strategy for growth and equality
India’s recent growth story has attracted scholarly attention from diverse intellectual standpoints. It has been described as a neoliberal success story, as the turnaround seems to have been decisi
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy and agriculture is no exception. Building on a recent World Bank flagship report, this article introduces a concise framework for describing the main benefits from new information and communication technologies. They promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by …
Deforestation and Women’s Work Burden in the Eastern Himalayas, India: Insights from a Field Survey
The effects of environmental degradation on livelihoods are significant in many parts of the developing world. This article attempts to quantify the impact of deforestation on women’s work burden in the eastern Himalayas through a primary survey in three villages of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in India. Our findings suggest that although deforestation increases women’s work in forest-related collection and gathering activities, the net impacts are…
The Difficult Transition: Economic Development and Gender Relations in Arunachal Pradesh
The interrelationship between economic development and gender relations has been found to be multidimensional and complex. This article attempts to analyse the changing gender relations in Arunachal Pradesh, a state that has seen rapid economic transformation in the past few decades, on the basis of women’s relative position in a few socioeconomic spheres. Although Arunachal Pradesh, like other north- eastern states, is generally described as hav…
Invisible chains? Crisis in the tea industry and the ‘unfreedom’ of labour in Assam's tea plantations
During the post-liberalization period the Indian tea industry has been facing a severe crisis. This study looks at the question of inter-generational occupational mobility among tea garden labour in Assam, against the backdrop of, on the one hand, a fall in tea auction prices, decline in exports, and closure and abandonment of tea gardens; and on the other hand, increasing labour unrest, at times leading to violent protests and confrontations, de…
Environmental resource consumption pattern in rural Arunachal Pradesh
Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transition: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Arunachal Pradesh, India
This paper contributes a preliminary analysis of the process of agrarian capitalist transition in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the least studied regions of India. Primarily based on information collected through a field survey in eleven villages, the paper seeks to explain the nature and implications of institutional unevenness in the development of capitalism. Institutional diversity is not simply mapped across space, it is also manifested in the s…
Gender, forests and livelihoods: A note on the political economy of transition in north-east India
The process of livelihood diversification could be highly complex and conflict-ridden, particularly because of unequal access to crucial livelihood resources. Based on mountain regions of north-east India in general and Arunachal Pradesh in particular, this paper attempts to analyse the livelihoods diversification in a forest-dependent economy. Along with the manifold transformation of the economies in the region, gender relations have also been …
Demand elasticities in international trade: Are they really low
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy and agriculture is no exception. Building on a recent World Bank flagship report, this article introduces a concise framework for describing the main benefits from new information and communication technologies. They promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by …
Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transition: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Arunachal Pradesh, India
This paper contributes a preliminary analysis of the process of agrarian capitalist transition in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the least studied regions of India. Primarily based on information collected through a field survey in eleven villages, the paper seeks to explain the nature and implications of institutional unevenness in the development of capitalism. Institutional diversity is not simply mapped across space, it is also manifested in the s…
Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India
The nature and manifestations of the rural and agrarian distress in India point to the disastrous, class-specific nature of neoliberal economic policies. A significant aspect of this process is its spatial dimensions – the various ways through which uneven development has been the cornerstone of the unfolding dynamics of economic growth in globalizing India. The prolonged agrarian crisis, fuelled by neoliberal economic policies, has created a cri…
Invisible chains? Crisis in the tea industry and the ‘unfreedom’ of labour in Assam's tea plantations
During the post-liberalization period the Indian tea industry has been facing a severe crisis. This study looks at the question of inter-generational occupational mobility among tea garden labour in Assam, against the backdrop of, on the one hand, a fall in tea auction prices, decline in exports, and closure and abandonment of tea gardens; and on the other hand, increasing labour unrest, at times leading to violent protests and confrontations, de…
The Difficult Transition: Economic Development and Gender Relations in Arunachal Pradesh
The interrelationship between economic development and gender relations has been found to be multidimensional and complex. This article attempts to analyse the changing gender relations in Arunachal Pradesh, a state that has seen rapid economic transformation in the past few decades, on the basis of women’s relative position in a few socioeconomic spheres. Although Arunachal Pradesh, like other north- eastern states, is generally described as hav…
Gender, ethnicity, and grassroots governance in Arunachal Pradesh, India
The presence of women in grassroots governance, it is argued, should strengthen their collective identity as women and create space for more inclusive politics. On the basis of a field survey in Arunachal Pradesh, India, this paper argues that the interrelationship between representation and inclusive governance is far more complex, particularly in the backdrop of ethnic politics and institutional diversity. Women representatives tend to work wit…
Deforestation and Women’s Work Burden in the Eastern Himalayas, India: Insights from a Field Survey
The effects of environmental degradation on livelihoods are significant in many parts of the developing world. This article attempts to quantify the impact of deforestation on women’s work burden in the eastern Himalayas through a primary survey in three villages of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in India. Our findings suggest that although deforestation increases women’s work in forest-related collection and gathering activities, the net impacts are…
Environmental resource consumption pattern in rural Arunachal Pradesh
Gender, forests and livelihoods: A note on the political economy of transition in north-east India
The process of livelihood diversification could be highly complex and conflict-ridden, particularly because of unequal access to crucial livelihood resources. Based on mountain regions of north-east India in general and Arunachal Pradesh in particular, this paper attempts to analyse the livelihoods diversification in a forest-dependent economy. Along with the manifold transformation of the economies in the region, gender relations have also been …
Demand elasticities in international trade: Are they really low
Gender, forests and livelihoods: A note on the political economy of transition in north-east India
The process of livelihood diversification could be highly complex and conflict-ridden, particularly because of unequal access to crucial livelihood resources. Based on mountain regions of north-east India in general and Arunachal Pradesh in particular, this paper attempts to analyse the livelihoods diversification in a forest-dependent economy. Along with the manifold transformation of the economies in the region, gender relations have also been …
Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transition: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Arunachal Pradesh, India
This paper contributes a preliminary analysis of the process of agrarian capitalist transition in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the least studied regions of India. Primarily based on information collected through a field survey in eleven villages, the paper seeks to explain the nature and implications of institutional unevenness in the development of capitalism. Institutional diversity is not simply mapped across space, it is also manifested in the s…
Environmental resource consumption pattern in rural Arunachal Pradesh
Invisible chains? Crisis in the tea industry and the ‘unfreedom’ of labour in Assam's tea plantations
During the post-liberalization period the Indian tea industry has been facing a severe crisis. This study looks at the question of inter-generational occupational mobility among tea garden labour in Assam, against the backdrop of, on the one hand, a fall in tea auction prices, decline in exports, and closure and abandonment of tea gardens; and on the other hand, increasing labour unrest, at times leading to violent protests and confrontations, de…
Deforestation and Women’s Work Burden in the Eastern Himalayas, India: Insights from a Field Survey
The effects of environmental degradation on livelihoods are significant in many parts of the developing world. This article attempts to quantify the impact of deforestation on women’s work burden in the eastern Himalayas through a primary survey in three villages of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in India. Our findings suggest that although deforestation increases women’s work in forest-related collection and gathering activities, the net impacts are…
The Difficult Transition: Economic Development and Gender Relations in Arunachal Pradesh
The interrelationship between economic development and gender relations has been found to be multidimensional and complex. This article attempts to analyse the changing gender relations in Arunachal Pradesh, a state that has seen rapid economic transformation in the past few decades, on the basis of women’s relative position in a few socioeconomic spheres. Although Arunachal Pradesh, like other north- eastern states, is generally described as hav…
Gender, ethnicity, and grassroots governance in Arunachal Pradesh, India
The presence of women in grassroots governance, it is argued, should strengthen their collective identity as women and create space for more inclusive politics. On the basis of a field survey in Arunachal Pradesh, India, this paper argues that the interrelationship between representation and inclusive governance is far more complex, particularly in the backdrop of ethnic politics and institutional diversity. Women representatives tend to work wit…
Inclusiveness in India: A strategy for growth and equality
India’s recent growth story has attracted scholarly attention from diverse intellectual standpoints. It has been described as a neoliberal success story, as the turnaround seems to have been decisi
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy and agriculture is no exception. Building on a recent World Bank flagship report, this article introduces a concise framework for describing the main benefits from new information and communication technologies. They promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by …
Public Distribution System in Uttar Pradesh: Access, Utilization and Impact
The public distribution system (PDS) in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous state, was widely recognized as dysfunctional. However, following the introduction of reforms in recent times, analysts have put this state in the category of “reviving” states. Against this backdrop, this article presents recent evidence of improved accessibility, utilization and impact of PDS in UP using data from the 68th Round of the National Sample Survey Offic…
Agrarian Transformation and Changing Labour Relations in Kalahandi, Odisha
Examining the changes in production relations in one of the poorest rainfed belts in India, this study, based on field surveys in eight villages in Kalahandi and Nuapada districts of Odisha, unravels the complexities of the transition in agriculture. The introduction of irrigation has resulted in, an increase in yield, wage rates and labour-use per hectare. Comparison between the irrigated and the non-irrigated villages also suggest a drastic red…
Aménagement hydroélectrique et droits communautaires dans l'Himalaya oriental: Le cas de l’Arunachal Pradesh
Avec plus de cent soixante mémorandums d'accords signés avec des constructeurs de barrages, l'Etat d'Arunashal Pradesh, situé dans l'Himalaya, dans une région nord-orientale de l'Inde faisant limite avec la Chine, le Boutant et le Myanmar, occupe une place de choix dans les plans d'aménagement hydroélectrique de l'Inde. Cet état est le foyer d'environ vingt-cinq communautés autochtones, chacune avec ses différentes traditions culturelles et insti…
Agrarian crisis and neoliberalism in India
The nature and manifestations of the rural and agrarian distress in India point to the disastrous, class-specific nature of neoliberal economic policies. A significant aspect of this process is its spatial dimensions – the various ways through which uneven development has been the cornerstone of the unfolding dynamics of economic growth in globalizing India. The prolonged agrarian crisis, fuelled by neoliberal economic policies, has created a cri…
Circular Labour Migration from Rural India: A Study of Out-Migration of Male Labour from West Bengal
Circular labour migration from rural areas has emerged as a key feature of the Indian economy. Generally seen as a positive development, because of its impact of remittances on the household economy of the migrants, circular migration has also been associated with exploitation and unfreedom of the migrant labour. This paper focuses on labour out-migration to the construction sector from one of the economically backward districts of West Bengal, I…
Capitalist trajectories in agrarian mountain societies of east and south‐east Arunachal, India
While the mountainous frontier regions of Arunachal have generated a literature celebrating their exceptional social diversity, less is known about Arunachal's rural political economy. Following village fieldwork in 2007 in northern districts, research in 2015 in East and South‐east Arunachal enables two aspects of agrarian transformation to be explored. First a comparison of the institutional transformation of land‐based resources between region…
Agrarian Distress and Seasonal Out-migration: Insights from a Field Survey in North Bengal
A substantial section of India’s migrant labour force is pushed into precarious livelihoods in the informal economy. The circular dynamic of seasonal migration, taken to fill the recurrent voids in earnings and employment, is the only distress-ameliorating strategy of marginalised households and should not be equated with accumulative and aspirational forms of livelihood diversification. We analyse the processes behind the emergence of a mobile l…
Political economy of agrarian change and migration in Northeast India: A study of villages in Tamenglong district, Manipur
This paper examines the interlinkages between agrarian change and labour migration in a mountain context. Evidence from four Rongmei villages in Tamenglong district reveals changing agrarian relations and identifies the drivers and outcomes of outmigration from the hills. Our political economy framework integrates questions of ethnicity and identity to demonstrate that transformations in traditional community institutions facilitate the selective…
Agrarian Change and Accumulation in Central India: Revisiting the Agrarian Question of Capital
In this paper, we revisit the relevance of the agrarian question of capital and provide evidence of the dynamism in agriculture based on an empirical enquiry. We study the possibilities, channels and patterns of agrarian accumulation and its spillover on the nonagrarian accumulation dynamics in an agriculturally advanced region lying in central India. Based on this empirical study, we posit that the agrarian question of capital remains important …
Economics (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Agrarian society (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works)