R B Bhagat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4063920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R B Bhagat |
| GIVEN NAMES | R B |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhagat |
| SIGNATURE | BHAGAT R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Population Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7646-603X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Daily Commuting to Workplace in India: Does Gender Has Anything to Say
Increasing urbanisation has resulted in urban sprawl, polycentric urban structures and increased spatial segregation between work and residence, necessitating daily commuting to work. Commuting is one of the major challenges, as well as an indispensable part of the day-to-day lives of urban dwellers. Challenges are more intense for women, as commuting is a gendered outcome where women have to negotiate between household chores, child care, transp…
Health disparities between native and foreign-born older population in India: Does migration status matter in later life
This cross-sectional study suggests that persons with internal and foreign-born migrant status were more vulnerable to poor health outcomes than non-migrants in their later life. This study predicts that migrants need separate health policies as they are in poorer health conditions than non-migrants. Policymakers should initiate equal access to healthcare services for older internal and foreign-born migrants in India
Measuring migration of older persons in India: Pattern, characteristics, and determinants
Social support and economic conditions among older migrants in India: Do distance, duration, and streams of migration play a role in later life
The findings of this study suggest that distance, duration, and migration stream have a significant association with social support and economic conditions in later life. In exploring migration's effect on social and economic status, policymakers should prioritize migrants in their agenda to maintain socio-economic and social support for older persons in India to achieve the sustainable goal of active and healthy ageing
Researching Internal Migration
Researching Internal Migration is a comprehensive guide for researchers and professionals to study internal migration in developing and underdeveloped economies. This book: • Explains key theoretical concepts related to migration • Guides students and researchers on how to design surveys and the utility of census data • Unravels the complexities of large data sets and their interpretation • Includes techniques for indirect measurement • Presents …
Youth and Migration Aspiration in Kerala
The emergence of oil production in Gulf countries and the subsequent oil boom in the 1970s led to massive migration from Kerala to Middle East Gulf countries as part of the post-industrial migratory order. The Gulf countries and their opportunities became an integral part of Kerala's youth life while developing future goals and aspirations. This paper provides insight into the migration aspiration of the youth from Kerala and their awareness of m…
Development disparities across urban localities of Maharashtra: A multilevel analysis
Return migration in India: Internal and international dimensions
India is a country with one of the largest emigrants with 17 million Indians living outside the country compared with 450 million internal migrants. During the 1970s and the 1980s, there was concern that India was losing its educated and skilled workforce to the Western countries, popularly known as ‘brain drain’. With the recent changes in the global economy, growing unemployment rates in the developed countries and rapid growth of Indian econom…
Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India
This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India and brings back the idea of citizenship to the center of the contested relationship between the state and internal migrants in the country. It interrogates the multiple vulnerabilities of disenfranchised internal migrants as evidenced in the mass exodus of migrants during the COVID-19 crisis. Challenging dominant economic and demographic theories of mobility and relying on a wide range of inno…
Migration and Urban Transition in India: A Development Perspective
The Covid-19, Migration and Livelihood in India: Challenges and Policy Issues
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 first reported from Wuhan in China is attributed to migration and mobility of people. In this article, we present how our understanding of migration and livelihood could be helpful in designing a mitigating strategy of the economic and social impact of COVID-19 in India. We conclude that there are many challenges migrants face during the spread of COVID-19 resulting from nation-wide lockdown. Many internal migrant…
Hindu—Muslim Riots in India: A Demographic Perspective
Some scholars of Indian history believe that Hindu–Muslims riots were a rare occurrence before the late 19th century; however, others have contested this. The country saw a new low in Hindu–Muslim relationships at the time of two major political issues — the Shah Bano case during the 1980s and the Babri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi dispute during the 1990s — that divided people from both communities and led to communal agitations. This chapter examines…
Interaction between Migration and Development: A Study of Income and Workforce Diversification in Rural Bihar
While agrarian stress has become a long-term phenomenon in the developing countries like India and land is likely to lose its importance as a determinant of wealth and power in rural areas, households are coping, adapting and securing their livelihood through diversification into non-agricultural activities. The study is aimed to understand the process of out-migration and income diversification of households in rural areas. It is based on the pr…
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration
Socioeconomic Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in India: A regional analysis
Temporary labour migration has rarely been studied at macro level despite its high prevalence in India. Drawing from the recently available Indian National Sample Survey (2007–08), this paper aims to study the basic differentials between temporary and permanent labour migration at the national level and examines the socioeconomic determinants of temporary labour migration at the state level. The study shows that temporary migration is seven times…
Census enumeration, religious identity and communal polarization in India
Census is considered to be a scientific exercise. However, it leaves a deep impact on religious and ethnic identities. This is because through census enumeration not only are boundaries of communities fixed, but also actual size and growth are known. This adds a new sense to the identities of the religious communities in the sphere of democratic politics. In India, the census was started around 1872 during the British rule, seven decades after th…
Emerging Pattern of Urbanization and the Contribution of Migration in Urban Growth in India
As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the 1990s, published data from the 2001 Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequality and to the contribution of the components of urban growth, namely, natural increase, emergence of new towns, and the net contribution of rural to urban migration. India has more than 4000 cities and towns, which comprise 28 per cent of India's po…
Assessing the Measurement of Internal Migration in India
The lack of data presents a fundamental challenge in measuring internal or international migration. Focusing on the case of India, this research note tackles the following aspects in the measurement of internal migration in India: a survey of migration-related questions included in various censuses, an assessment of the different criteria to determine migration status, and a comparison of migration data derived from census data and the National S…
Ageing and Dependency in India: A new measurement
This paper modifies the measurement of dependency and applies it to the Indian situation at the state level. It is generally believed that the aged are a burden on the family and the nation as they do not contribute to the national income. This is not always true. In India: 40 per cent of those aged 60 and over are working, which rises to 61 per cent in the case of males. On the other hand, there are adults (age group 15–59) who are not working a…
Mumbai after 26/7 Deluge: Issues and Concerns in Urban Planning
Rural-Urban Classification and Municipal Governance in India
Rural-urban classification constitutes an important framework for the collection and compilation of population data in many countries. While “urban” is often specifically defined, “rural” is treated simply as a residual category. The criteria defining urban also differ from country to country. This paper argues that these rural and urban statistical categories are also highly significant for local governance, increasingly so in recent years given…
Social dimension of fertility in India: Insights from a regional study
Status of women and age at marriage in india
Socioeconomic Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in India: A regional analysis
Temporary labour migration has rarely been studied at macro level despite its high prevalence in India. Drawing from the recently available Indian National Sample Survey (2007–08), this paper aims to study the basic differentials between temporary and permanent labour migration at the national level and examines the socioeconomic determinants of temporary labour migration at the state level. The study shows that temporary migration is seven times…
Emerging Pattern of Urbanization and the Contribution of Migration in Urban Growth in India
As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the 1990s, published data from the 2001 Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequality and to the contribution of the components of urban growth, namely, natural increase, emergence of new towns, and the net contribution of rural to urban migration. India has more than 4000 cities and towns, which comprise 28 per cent of India's po…
Census enumeration, religious identity and communal polarization in India
Census is considered to be a scientific exercise. However, it leaves a deep impact on religious and ethnic identities. This is because through census enumeration not only are boundaries of communities fixed, but also actual size and growth are known. This adds a new sense to the identities of the religious communities in the sphere of democratic politics. In India, the census was started around 1872 during the British rule, seven decades after th…
Mumbai after 26/7 Deluge: Issues and Concerns in Urban Planning
Assessing the Measurement of Internal Migration in India
The lack of data presents a fundamental challenge in measuring internal or international migration. Focusing on the case of India, this research note tackles the following aspects in the measurement of internal migration in India: a survey of migration-related questions included in various censuses, an assessment of the different criteria to determine migration status, and a comparison of migration data derived from census data and the National S…
Ageing and Dependency in India: A new measurement
This paper modifies the measurement of dependency and applies it to the Indian situation at the state level. It is generally believed that the aged are a burden on the family and the nation as they do not contribute to the national income. This is not always true. In India: 40 per cent of those aged 60 and over are working, which rises to 61 per cent in the case of males. On the other hand, there are adults (age group 15–59) who are not working a…
Social dimension of fertility in India: Insights from a regional study
Status of women and age at marriage in india
Social dimension of fertility in India: Insights from a regional study
Rural-Urban Classification and Municipal Governance in India
Rural-urban classification constitutes an important framework for the collection and compilation of population data in many countries. While “urban” is often specifically defined, “rural” is treated simply as a residual category. The criteria defining urban also differ from country to country. This paper argues that these rural and urban statistical categories are also highly significant for local governance, increasingly so in recent years given…
Ageing and Dependency in India: A new measurement
This paper modifies the measurement of dependency and applies it to the Indian situation at the state level. It is generally believed that the aged are a burden on the family and the nation as they do not contribute to the national income. This is not always true. In India: 40 per cent of those aged 60 and over are working, which rises to 61 per cent in the case of males. On the other hand, there are adults (age group 15–59) who are not working a…
Mumbai after 26/7 Deluge: Issues and Concerns in Urban Planning
Assessing the Measurement of Internal Migration in India
The lack of data presents a fundamental challenge in measuring internal or international migration. Focusing on the case of India, this research note tackles the following aspects in the measurement of internal migration in India: a survey of migration-related questions included in various censuses, an assessment of the different criteria to determine migration status, and a comparison of migration data derived from census data and the National S…
Emerging Pattern of Urbanization and the Contribution of Migration in Urban Growth in India
As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the 1990s, published data from the 2001 Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequality and to the contribution of the components of urban growth, namely, natural increase, emergence of new towns, and the net contribution of rural to urban migration. India has more than 4000 cities and towns, which comprise 28 per cent of India's po…
Socioeconomic Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in India: A regional analysis
Temporary labour migration has rarely been studied at macro level despite its high prevalence in India. Drawing from the recently available Indian National Sample Survey (2007–08), this paper aims to study the basic differentials between temporary and permanent labour migration at the national level and examines the socioeconomic determinants of temporary labour migration at the state level. The study shows that temporary migration is seven times…
Census enumeration, religious identity and communal polarization in India
Census is considered to be a scientific exercise. However, it leaves a deep impact on religious and ethnic identities. This is because through census enumeration not only are boundaries of communities fixed, but also actual size and growth are known. This adds a new sense to the identities of the religious communities in the sphere of democratic politics. In India, the census was started around 1872 during the British rule, seven decades after th…
Interaction between Migration and Development: A Study of Income and Workforce Diversification in Rural Bihar
While agrarian stress has become a long-term phenomenon in the developing countries like India and land is likely to lose its importance as a determinant of wealth and power in rural areas, households are coping, adapting and securing their livelihood through diversification into non-agricultural activities. The study is aimed to understand the process of out-migration and income diversification of households in rural areas. It is based on the pr…
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration
Hindu—Muslim Riots in India: A Demographic Perspective
Some scholars of Indian history believe that Hindu–Muslims riots were a rare occurrence before the late 19th century; however, others have contested this. The country saw a new low in Hindu–Muslim relationships at the time of two major political issues — the Shah Bano case during the 1980s and the Babri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi dispute during the 1990s — that divided people from both communities and led to communal agitations. This chapter examines…
Migration and Urban Transition in India: A Development Perspective
The Covid-19, Migration and Livelihood in India: Challenges and Policy Issues
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 first reported from Wuhan in China is attributed to migration and mobility of people. In this article, we present how our understanding of migration and livelihood could be helpful in designing a mitigating strategy of the economic and social impact of COVID-19 in India. We conclude that there are many challenges migrants face during the spread of COVID-19 resulting from nation-wide lockdown. Many internal migrant…
Development disparities across urban localities of Maharashtra: A multilevel analysis
Return migration in India: Internal and international dimensions
India is a country with one of the largest emigrants with 17 million Indians living outside the country compared with 450 million internal migrants. During the 1970s and the 1980s, there was concern that India was losing its educated and skilled workforce to the Western countries, popularly known as ‘brain drain’. With the recent changes in the global economy, growing unemployment rates in the developed countries and rapid growth of Indian econom…
Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India
This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India and brings back the idea of citizenship to the center of the contested relationship between the state and internal migrants in the country. It interrogates the multiple vulnerabilities of disenfranchised internal migrants as evidenced in the mass exodus of migrants during the COVID-19 crisis. Challenging dominant economic and demographic theories of mobility and relying on a wide range of inno…
Researching Internal Migration
Researching Internal Migration is a comprehensive guide for researchers and professionals to study internal migration in developing and underdeveloped economies. This book: • Explains key theoretical concepts related to migration • Guides students and researchers on how to design surveys and the utility of census data • Unravels the complexities of large data sets and their interpretation • Includes techniques for indirect measurement • Presents …
Youth and Migration Aspiration in Kerala
The emergence of oil production in Gulf countries and the subsequent oil boom in the 1970s led to massive migration from Kerala to Middle East Gulf countries as part of the post-industrial migratory order. The Gulf countries and their opportunities became an integral part of Kerala's youth life while developing future goals and aspirations. This paper provides insight into the migration aspiration of the youth from Kerala and their awareness of m…
Social support and economic conditions among older migrants in India: Do distance, duration, and streams of migration play a role in later life
The findings of this study suggest that distance, duration, and migration stream have a significant association with social support and economic conditions in later life. In exploring migration's effect on social and economic status, policymakers should prioritize migrants in their agenda to maintain socio-economic and social support for older persons in India to achieve the sustainable goal of active and healthy ageing
Health disparities between native and foreign-born older population in India: Does migration status matter in later life
This cross-sectional study suggests that persons with internal and foreign-born migrant status were more vulnerable to poor health outcomes than non-migrants in their later life. This study predicts that migrants need separate health policies as they are in poorer health conditions than non-migrants. Policymakers should initiate equal access to healthcare services for older internal and foreign-born migrants in India
Measuring migration of older persons in India: Pattern, characteristics, and determinants
Daily Commuting to Workplace in India: Does Gender Has Anything to Say
Increasing urbanisation has resulted in urban sprawl, polycentric urban structures and increased spatial segregation between work and residence, necessitating daily commuting to work. Commuting is one of the major challenges, as well as an indispensable part of the day-to-day lives of urban dwellers. Challenges are more intense for women, as commuting is a gendered outcome where women have to negotiate between household chores, child care, transp…
Geography (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Socioeconomics (8 works) · Demography (7 works)