Anirban Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anirban Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anirban |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | South Asian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8494-3692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake
This article argues that an effective rethinking of agriculture in the light of the climate emergency should aim to achieve more than decarbonization in agricultural production. The multidimensional ecological crisis precipitated by industrial agriculture can only be addressed through an integrated approach that seeks to restore the ecological balance through sustainable production practices. However, such a programme of reversing the ecological …
Peasant Production in India: How the 'Need Economy' Facilitates Accumulation
This article analyses the role of peasant production within the larger process of capitalist accumulation in India. It engages with two distinct theoretical positions - Kalyan Sanyal's formulation of the 'need economy' which is driven by an objective of need fulfilment outside the domain of capitalist production, and Henry Bernstein's thesis on the irrelevance of the agrarian question of capital as discussed by Jens Lerche in the particular conte…
Land Reform in Kerala and West Bengal: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition
This chapter examines patterns of land acquisition in the establishment of two enterprises that obtained the status of proto-national industries before independence in 1947: the Tata hydro-electric power companies in the Western Ghats, and the Tata Iron and Steel Company at Jamshedpur. The chapter comparatively shows how the legal instruments of dispossession varied according to the distribution of power, arguing that the entry of Indian capital …
‘Sustaining Human Progress’ in Neoliberal Times
This essay reviews the ‘Human Development Report’ for 2014 and analyses its policy agenda for mitigating structural vulnerabilities faced by the global population. The essay concludes that while the report supports several progressive policies that are critical for broad-based human development, the lack of a systemic approach with an analysis of neoliberal capitalism remains a fundamental drawback that the report shares with other official publi…
Evolving Motives for Fair Trade Consumption: A Qualitative Study on Handicraft Consumers of India
Research on fair trade consumption, particularly on handicrafts, has been scarce in India. Globalization further complicates the understanding of their consumption patterns, which needs to be studied. This paper qualitatively explored the consumer motives and values towards handicraft consumption and their development in contemporary society. An online survey, some mall intercept interviews, and an online sentence completion test were conducted f…
Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies
This article acts as the Introduction to the Debate that follows. It contends that the so‐called impasse in development has been a constant feature of the field and is an indicator of its self‐critical outlook rather than any deep‐seated existential crisis. It unpacks the various dimensions of ongoing debate regarding the future of development studies, probing its policy relevance and legitimacy, interdisciplinarity, geographic focus and relation…
Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes
Land reform in Bolivia: The forestry question
In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We fi nd that although the current land reform satisfi es most of the conditions necessary for adequately addressing development issues in the agrarian sector, it does not deal with many challenges related to forest management, and in fact contains provisions confl icting with the objectives of sustainable forest management. Given that a large part of the land being title…
A New Programme to Combat Poverty and Inequality
Agrofuels capitalism: A View From Political Economy
This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest than the forms of (direct or indirect) appropriation…
The Impact of Tenancy Reform in West Bengal: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion
We revisit the problem of interval estimation of a binomial proportion. The erratic behavior of the coverage probability of the standard Wald confidence interval has previously been remarked on in the literature (Blyth and Still, Agresti and Coull, Santner and others). We begin by showing that the chaotic coverage properties of the Wald interval are far more persistent than is appreciated. Furthermore, common textbook prescriptions regarding its …
International Economic Imbalance
Agrofuels capitalism: A View From Political Economy
This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest than the forms of (direct or indirect) appropriation…
Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies
This article acts as the Introduction to the Debate that follows. It contends that the so‐called impasse in development has been a constant feature of the field and is an indicator of its self‐critical outlook rather than any deep‐seated existential crisis. It unpacks the various dimensions of ongoing debate regarding the future of development studies, probing its policy relevance and legitimacy, interdisciplinarity, geographic focus and relation…
Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes
The Impact of Tenancy Reform in West Bengal: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Peasant Production in India: How the 'Need Economy' Facilitates Accumulation
This article analyses the role of peasant production within the larger process of capitalist accumulation in India. It engages with two distinct theoretical positions - Kalyan Sanyal's formulation of the 'need economy' which is driven by an objective of need fulfilment outside the domain of capitalist production, and Henry Bernstein's thesis on the irrelevance of the agrarian question of capital as discussed by Jens Lerche in the particular conte…
Evolving Motives for Fair Trade Consumption: A Qualitative Study on Handicraft Consumers of India
Research on fair trade consumption, particularly on handicrafts, has been scarce in India. Globalization further complicates the understanding of their consumption patterns, which needs to be studied. This paper qualitatively explored the consumer motives and values towards handicraft consumption and their development in contemporary society. An online survey, some mall intercept interviews, and an online sentence completion test were conducted f…
International Economic Imbalance
Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion
We revisit the problem of interval estimation of a binomial proportion. The erratic behavior of the coverage probability of the standard Wald confidence interval has previously been remarked on in the literature (Blyth and Still, Agresti and Coull, Santner and others). We begin by showing that the chaotic coverage properties of the Wald interval are far more persistent than is appreciated. Furthermore, common textbook prescriptions regarding its …
The Impact of Tenancy Reform in West Bengal: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Agrofuels capitalism: A View From Political Economy
This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest than the forms of (direct or indirect) appropriation…
Land reform in Bolivia: The forestry question
In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We fi nd that although the current land reform satisfi es most of the conditions necessary for adequately addressing development issues in the agrarian sector, it does not deal with many challenges related to forest management, and in fact contains provisions confl icting with the objectives of sustainable forest management. Given that a large part of the land being title…
A New Programme to Combat Poverty and Inequality
Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes
Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies
This article acts as the Introduction to the Debate that follows. It contends that the so‐called impasse in development has been a constant feature of the field and is an indicator of its self‐critical outlook rather than any deep‐seated existential crisis. It unpacks the various dimensions of ongoing debate regarding the future of development studies, probing its policy relevance and legitimacy, interdisciplinarity, geographic focus and relation…
‘Sustaining Human Progress’ in Neoliberal Times
This essay reviews the ‘Human Development Report’ for 2014 and analyses its policy agenda for mitigating structural vulnerabilities faced by the global population. The essay concludes that while the report supports several progressive policies that are critical for broad-based human development, the lack of a systemic approach with an analysis of neoliberal capitalism remains a fundamental drawback that the report shares with other official publi…
Evolving Motives for Fair Trade Consumption: A Qualitative Study on Handicraft Consumers of India
Research on fair trade consumption, particularly on handicrafts, has been scarce in India. Globalization further complicates the understanding of their consumption patterns, which needs to be studied. This paper qualitatively explored the consumer motives and values towards handicraft consumption and their development in contemporary society. An online survey, some mall intercept interviews, and an online sentence completion test were conducted f…
Land Reform in Kerala and West Bengal: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition
This chapter examines patterns of land acquisition in the establishment of two enterprises that obtained the status of proto-national industries before independence in 1947: the Tata hydro-electric power companies in the Western Ghats, and the Tata Iron and Steel Company at Jamshedpur. The chapter comparatively shows how the legal instruments of dispossession varied according to the distribution of power, arguing that the entry of Indian capital …
Peasant Production in India: How the 'Need Economy' Facilitates Accumulation
This article analyses the role of peasant production within the larger process of capitalist accumulation in India. It engages with two distinct theoretical positions - Kalyan Sanyal's formulation of the 'need economy' which is driven by an objective of need fulfilment outside the domain of capitalist production, and Henry Bernstein's thesis on the irrelevance of the agrarian question of capital as discussed by Jens Lerche in the particular conte…
Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake
This article argues that an effective rethinking of agriculture in the light of the climate emergency should aim to achieve more than decarbonization in agricultural production. The multidimensional ecological crisis precipitated by industrial agriculture can only be addressed through an integrated approach that seeks to restore the ecological balance through sustainable production practices. However, such a programme of reversing the ecological …
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Agrarian society (3 works)