Ranjan Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranjan Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8944-7436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Turn to Plastic
This article introduces the rationale, concept, and understanding of what I call “plastic humanities.” In a “material aesthetic” correspondence with the movement and behaviour of material plastic, the humanities weave realistic possibilities of understanding, initiating an “opening forth” into how we can survive and plough up the late academe in plasticizing disciplinary intersections and conjunctions. Plastic humanities make sense of the noise t…
A comparison of the effects of local and EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations on selected economic and environmental outcomes in India
Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India’s cereal production system
In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to manage withdrawals. We assess policy instruments that can reduce pressures on water resources, while at the same time limiting adverse impacts on water-intensive cereal production systems, land-use changes and economic welfare. To th…
A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems
The achievement of several sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement depends on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries. We have built a flexible, collaborative modeling framework to foster the development of national pathways by local research teams and their integration up to global scale. Local researchers independently customize national models to explore mid-century pathways of the food a…
Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance
On the Train with Mrs. Brown
Research Article| November 01 2022 On the Train with Mrs. Brown Ranjan Ghosh Ranjan Ghosh Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. His recent books include The Plastic Turn (2022) and Plastic Tagore (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 144–158. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9993238 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Introduction to the Special Focus Section “Creative Critical”
Research Article| November 01 2022 Introduction to the Special Focus Section “Creative Critical”: To Be or Not to Be Ranjan Ghosh Ranjan Ghosh Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. His recent books include The Plastic Turn (2022) and Plastic Tagore (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 77–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9993167…
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets
The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, on the other, there is little clarity whether these objectives can align with national developmental priorities of food security and environmental protection. This study fills the gap by reviewing multiple corridors to sustain…
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Desiring -Material
This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned, and obscure objects, plastic triggers and challenges the imagination and builds a variety of aesthetic affordances. It constructs and inheres in a desire-principle where t…
Money, Land or self-employment? Understanding preference heterogeneity in landowners’ choices for compensation under land acquisition in India
Jugalbandi
“Let us space”—Derrida1 Caught amidst the wonderful circulation of ideas raised in this Forum—astute, probing, reflective, critical—I somewhat struggle to find my dwelling in the across: the metaphor for dialogue, the dialogue for communication, the communication for “thinking.” It is the investigation to locate dialogue in Thinking Literature across Continents (TLAC) that creates dialogue: the “dialogism” building around the loss, inconspicuity,…
The Role of Access Mechanisms in Effective Rehabilitation of Displaced Farmers Due to Development Projects
This paper provides an access based explanation of why institutional arrangements of compensation provision for land acquisition often fail to effectively rehabilitate displaced farmers in a developing country context like India. Farmers have a right to claim compensation in case of land takings, which specifies two methods of claim: consent method and arbitration method. Literature indicates that farmers’ choice between the two methods has a sig…
Rehabilitation Myths? How Transaction Costs Reduce Farmer Welfare After Land Acquisition
In this article, we show how transaction costs lead to farmer marginalization as displaced farmers embark on the process of acquiring new land. Existing studies have focused on the links between monetary compensation and landowners’ investment decisions, but before new land is acquired. However, the post-displacement scenario and the investment decisions of land owners to restore income have not been carefully examined. We use a transaction cost …
Thinking Literature across Continents
Framley Parsonage was originally instigated by an invitation several years ago from
Intra-active Transculturality
Rabindranath and Rabindranath Tagore
This article, through a close reading of Rabindranath Tagore's writings on history, tries to develop his theory of history and establish the character of his historical consciousness. Tagore's philosophy of history is distinguished from Western models of historical thinking and is resistant to aligning with nationalist and revivalistic narratives that speak only of one culture, one nation, and one community. The article works out a theoretical pr…
Making Sense of the Secular
Introduction: Making Sense of the Secular Ranjan Ghosh Part I: Europe 1. Formations of the Secular State and Islam in Britain Today Naheem Jabbar 2. The Evolution of French Secularism Jean Bauberot 3. How Do You Say 'Secular' In Italian? Edoardo Tortorolo 4. Manifest Secularization Processes in Turkey and Belgium Karel Dobbelaere 5. Secularism in Eastern Europe Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea Part II: Asia 6. The Truth about Secularism Tabish Khair…
Rendezvous with the Scholar-Gipsy
Rendezvous with the Scholar-Gipsy Ranjan Ghosh (bio) Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!The story of the Oxford scholar poor,Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door,One summer-morn forsookHis friends, and went to learn the gipsy-lore..... —Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) "The Scholar-Gipsy" When Matthew Arnold's wandering scholar-gipsy encounters former colleagues in a country lane who "of his way…
Literature
Literature:the "Mattering" and the Matter Ranjan Ghosh (bio) How empty and barren would life be if all our art and literature were taken away. What a calamity! — Rabindranath Tagore1 Beyond the circle of the reading room are the world's greatest collection of books and the finest works of art from all places and times—sculpture from the Parthenon, Ming vases, Viking jewelry, great stone bulls and lions from Assyria, Egyptian mummies, medieval tap…
A Poet's School
This paper looks into the dynamics and performatives of Tagore's school which was established in 1901 at Bolpur in West Bengal. He called it Santiniketan. The paper critiques Tagore's notions of pedagogy in relation to the pregnant network linking the students, teachers and their natural environment; further, it investigates how the school has manifested itself as a green discourse and worked itself out within the dialectic of space and place, gi…
Introducing a Surplus
Globing the Earth
Globing the Earth:The New Eco-logics of Nature Ranjan Ghosh (bio) Concerted clamors ring in the corridors of our planet: "Nature is dying, and with it, life on earth. Humans! Your end is approaching." Are we then battling the postendist phase of nature? Is living with/in nature all about encountering the spectre of the "unborn"—those who will come after us and who in some sense now must command the unfolding of present politics and society? How a…
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Money, Land or self-employment? Understanding preference heterogeneity in landowners’ choices for compensation under land acquisition in India
Thinking Literature across Continents
Framley Parsonage was originally instigated by an invitation several years ago from
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India
Turn to Plastic
This article introduces the rationale, concept, and understanding of what I call “plastic humanities.” In a “material aesthetic” correspondence with the movement and behaviour of material plastic, the humanities weave realistic possibilities of understanding, initiating an “opening forth” into how we can survive and plough up the late academe in plasticizing disciplinary intersections and conjunctions. Plastic humanities make sense of the noise t…
Rehabilitation Myths? How Transaction Costs Reduce Farmer Welfare After Land Acquisition
In this article, we show how transaction costs lead to farmer marginalization as displaced farmers embark on the process of acquiring new land. Existing studies have focused on the links between monetary compensation and landowners’ investment decisions, but before new land is acquired. However, the post-displacement scenario and the investment decisions of land owners to restore income have not been carefully examined. We use a transaction cost …
Interdisciplinarity and the ‘Doing’ of History
The following conversation tries to look into the interdisciplinary matrix of historical studies and critiques the inherent relation that history has with literature. It raises several points of discussion: to what extent is history a product of memory? How do we relate biography, narrative and representation? What is the role of ‘historical experience’ in opposition to postmodern linguistic turn? The conversation also zeros in on the role of rel…
India, Itihasa, and Inter-historiographical Discourse
An effective and enriching discourse on comparative historiography invests itself in understanding the distinctness and identity that have created various civilizations. Very often, infected by bias, ideology, and cultural one-upmanship, we encounter a presumptuous-ness that is redolent of impatience with the cultural other and of an ingrained refusal to acknowledge what one's own history and culture fail to provide. This "failure" need not be th…
Artistic Communication and Symbol
Journal Article ARTISTIC COMMUNICATION AND SYMBOL: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS Get access Ranjan K. Ghosh Ranjan K. Ghosh University of North BengalDarjeeling 734430, India Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 27, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1987, Pages 319–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/27.4.319 Published: 01 April 1987
Artistic Communication and Symbol
Journal Article ARTISTIC COMMUNICATION AND SYMBOL: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS Get access Ranjan K. Ghosh Ranjan K. Ghosh University of North BengalDarjeeling 734430, India Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 27, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1987, Pages 319–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/27.4.319 Published: 01 April 1987
Institutionalised Theory, (In)fusion, Desivad
Carlyle's "hero as poet" and sri aurobindo's poetic theory
Interdisciplinarity and the ‘Doing’ of History
The following conversation tries to look into the interdisciplinary matrix of historical studies and critiques the inherent relation that history has with literature. It raises several points of discussion: to what extent is history a product of memory? How do we relate biography, narrative and representation? What is the role of ‘historical experience’ in opposition to postmodern linguistic turn? The conversation also zeros in on the role of rel…
India, Itihasa, and Inter-historiographical Discourse
An effective and enriching discourse on comparative historiography invests itself in understanding the distinctness and identity that have created various civilizations. Very often, infected by bias, ideology, and cultural one-upmanship, we encounter a presumptuous-ness that is redolent of impatience with the cultural other and of an ingrained refusal to acknowledge what one's own history and culture fail to provide. This "failure" need not be th…
The product called ‘India’
Globalizing Dissent
Globalizing Dissent
Making Sense of Interpretation
Historical memory in Africa
List of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, Jorn Rusen Part I: From an African Perspective Chapter 2. Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa Elisio Macamo Chapter 3. History by Word of Mouth: Linking Past and Present through Oral Memory Annekie Joubert Chapter 4. The Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa Bogumil Jewsiewicki Chapter 5. Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaire J…
A Poet's School
This paper looks into the dynamics and performatives of Tagore's school which was established in 1901 at Bolpur in West Bengal. He called it Santiniketan. The paper critiques Tagore's notions of pedagogy in relation to the pregnant network linking the students, teachers and their natural environment; further, it investigates how the school has manifested itself as a green discourse and worked itself out within the dialectic of space and place, gi…
Introducing a Surplus
Globing the Earth
Globing the Earth:The New Eco-logics of Nature Ranjan Ghosh (bio) Concerted clamors ring in the corridors of our planet: "Nature is dying, and with it, life on earth. Humans! Your end is approaching." Are we then battling the postendist phase of nature? Is living with/in nature all about encountering the spectre of the "unborn"—those who will come after us and who in some sense now must command the unfolding of present politics and society? How a…
Making Sense of the Secular
Introduction: Making Sense of the Secular Ranjan Ghosh Part I: Europe 1. Formations of the Secular State and Islam in Britain Today Naheem Jabbar 2. The Evolution of French Secularism Jean Bauberot 3. How Do You Say 'Secular' In Italian? Edoardo Tortorolo 4. Manifest Secularization Processes in Turkey and Belgium Karel Dobbelaere 5. Secularism in Eastern Europe Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea Part II: Asia 6. The Truth about Secularism Tabish Khair…
Rendezvous with the Scholar-Gipsy
Rendezvous with the Scholar-Gipsy Ranjan Ghosh (bio) Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!The story of the Oxford scholar poor,Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,Who, tired of knocking at preferment's door,One summer-morn forsookHis friends, and went to learn the gipsy-lore..... —Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) "The Scholar-Gipsy" When Matthew Arnold's wandering scholar-gipsy encounters former colleagues in a country lane who "of his way…
Literature
Literature:the "Mattering" and the Matter Ranjan Ghosh (bio) How empty and barren would life be if all our art and literature were taken away. What a calamity! — Rabindranath Tagore1 Beyond the circle of the reading room are the world's greatest collection of books and the finest works of art from all places and times—sculpture from the Parthenon, Ming vases, Viking jewelry, great stone bulls and lions from Assyria, Egyptian mummies, medieval tap…
Intra-active Transculturality
Rabindranath and Rabindranath Tagore
This article, through a close reading of Rabindranath Tagore's writings on history, tries to develop his theory of history and establish the character of his historical consciousness. Tagore's philosophy of history is distinguished from Western models of historical thinking and is resistant to aligning with nationalist and revivalistic narratives that speak only of one culture, one nation, and one community. The article works out a theoretical pr…
Thinking Literature across Continents
Framley Parsonage was originally instigated by an invitation several years ago from
The Role of Access Mechanisms in Effective Rehabilitation of Displaced Farmers Due to Development Projects
This paper provides an access based explanation of why institutional arrangements of compensation provision for land acquisition often fail to effectively rehabilitate displaced farmers in a developing country context like India. Farmers have a right to claim compensation in case of land takings, which specifies two methods of claim: consent method and arbitration method. Literature indicates that farmers’ choice between the two methods has a sig…
Rehabilitation Myths? How Transaction Costs Reduce Farmer Welfare After Land Acquisition
In this article, we show how transaction costs lead to farmer marginalization as displaced farmers embark on the process of acquiring new land. Existing studies have focused on the links between monetary compensation and landowners’ investment decisions, but before new land is acquired. However, the post-displacement scenario and the investment decisions of land owners to restore income have not been carefully examined. We use a transaction cost …
Jugalbandi
“Let us space”—Derrida1 Caught amidst the wonderful circulation of ideas raised in this Forum—astute, probing, reflective, critical—I somewhat struggle to find my dwelling in the across: the metaphor for dialogue, the dialogue for communication, the communication for “thinking.” It is the investigation to locate dialogue in Thinking Literature across Continents (TLAC) that creates dialogue: the “dialogism” building around the loss, inconspicuity,…
Money, Land or self-employment? Understanding preference heterogeneity in landowners’ choices for compensation under land acquisition in India
Desiring -Material
This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned, and obscure objects, plastic triggers and challenges the imagination and builds a variety of aesthetic affordances. It constructs and inheres in a desire-principle where t…
Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance
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