Nirmal Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 127968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nirmal Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nirmal |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Madras Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9085-8478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Traditional Knowledge in Modern India: Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Traditional Cultural Expressions, Expressions of Folklore
Conclusion
Traditional Knowledge in Modern India: Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Natural Resources in Indian Legal System
This article brings out some distinctive features of Indian law and society in the matters of property rights and entitlements over natural resources. Both the colonial and post-colonial states that introduced the modern law in stages had multiple motives. They determined the types of rights assigned and the complex political and bureaucratic processes necessary for their implementations. By using an evolutionary approach to trace these developme…
Tank and Welfare
XIII. Field Systems, Property Reform and Indigenous Irrigation
Some methodological remarks at the outset should help in the appreciation of the study. Indigenous systems have been presented in simplistic manner, not merely in terms of their differences with Western societal systems but in terms of their internal structures, too. Our use of certain terms like ‘community’, or the topic itself, may evoke popular images like homogeneity or Asiatic mode. But it should be remembered, that such images were often bu…
Special issue 1 on Agrarian movements in Bihar: Comments on a review article
Henningham is taken to task for his misleading review article in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol.11, No. 4, July 1984) on the Special Issue on ‘Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on Twentieth Century Bihar’ (Vol.9, No.3, April 1982). It is suggested that Henningham seriously misrepresents the arguments in the Special Issue and uses his ‘review article’ as a vehicle for expounding the views presented in his own book, published in 1982.
Agrarian movements in Bihar
The interaction between a highly capitalist land settlement and a social structure that was much too primitive, gave rise to agrarian conflicts from the very beginning of colonial rule. Tensions increased sharply in the twentieth century for a multiplicity of reasons. By around the 1930s they crystallised into an organised and widespread movement led by the 'Kisan Sabha'. The Kisan Sabha, during its short life, has undergone various experiences i…
The Indigenous Irrigation Organization in South Bihar
The Indigenous Irrigation Organization in South Bihar
Agrarian movements in Bihar
The interaction between a highly capitalist land settlement and a social structure that was much too primitive, gave rise to agrarian conflicts from the very beginning of colonial rule. Tensions increased sharply in the twentieth century for a multiplicity of reasons. By around the 1930s they crystallised into an organised and widespread movement led by the 'Kisan Sabha'. The Kisan Sabha, during its short life, has undergone various experiences i…
The Indigenous Irrigation Organization in South Bihar
Agrarian movements in Bihar
The interaction between a highly capitalist land settlement and a social structure that was much too primitive, gave rise to agrarian conflicts from the very beginning of colonial rule. Tensions increased sharply in the twentieth century for a multiplicity of reasons. By around the 1930s they crystallised into an organised and widespread movement led by the 'Kisan Sabha'. The Kisan Sabha, during its short life, has undergone various experiences i…
Special issue 1 on Agrarian movements in Bihar: Comments on a review article
Henningham is taken to task for his misleading review article in The Journal of Peasant Studies (Vol.11, No. 4, July 1984) on the Special Issue on ‘Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on Twentieth Century Bihar’ (Vol.9, No.3, April 1982). It is suggested that Henningham seriously misrepresents the arguments in the Special Issue and uses his ‘review article’ as a vehicle for expounding the views presented in his own book, published in 1982.
XIII. Field Systems, Property Reform and Indigenous Irrigation
Some methodological remarks at the outset should help in the appreciation of the study. Indigenous systems have been presented in simplistic manner, not merely in terms of their differences with Western societal systems but in terms of their internal structures, too. Our use of certain terms like ‘community’, or the topic itself, may evoke popular images like homogeneity or Asiatic mode. But it should be remembered, that such images were often bu…
Tank and Welfare
Natural Resources in Indian Legal System
This article brings out some distinctive features of Indian law and society in the matters of property rights and entitlements over natural resources. Both the colonial and post-colonial states that introduced the modern law in stages had multiple motives. They determined the types of rights assigned and the complex political and bureaucratic processes necessary for their implementations. By using an evolutionary approach to trace these developme…
Traditional Knowledge in Modern India: Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Traditional Knowledge in Modern India: Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Traditional Cultural Expressions, Expressions of Folklore
Conclusion
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agricultural Economics and Practices (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works)