A Sethi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Sethi |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sethi |
| SIGNATURE | SETHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9067-927X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ritual as image: Materiality, social history, and the gendered economies of agrarian capitalism in central India
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the central Indian cotton belt, I examine two historical moments: (1) the expansion of agrarian capitalism and absorption of market logics into the peasant household in the colonial period; and (2) changes in seed technology and gendered labor required for cultivating hybrid cotton in the postcolonial era. Through these transformations, cotton farmers have maintained a harvest ritual in the fields. Through a c…
One year later: Reflections on the farmers’ protest in India
Beginning November 2020, over two hundred thousand farmers have gathered in a prolonged sit-in on the borders of New Delhi. The immediate impetus for the protests was the passage of three laws that ease the entry of agribusiness into the agricultural sector. The farmers’ protests began eight months after mass protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, enacted in December 2019. This amendment to India’s Citizenship Act disbars Muslims from ne…
Terms of trade and the cost of cotton: The paradox of commercial agriculture in India
This essay engages the problem of agriculture and the market from the point of view of production. India is a nation of small-holder farmers where agriculturalists have been integrated into commercial cash cropping over long-distance commodity chains for a very long time. It is the nature of those markets, their relation to the state, and to the farming household that undertakes agricultural commodity production, that has changed. Through a techn…
Toward a Readers’ Uprising: Reflections in the Wake of Assaults on Books and Authors in Today’s India
Terms of trade and the cost of cotton: The paradox of commercial agriculture in India
This essay engages the problem of agriculture and the market from the point of view of production. India is a nation of small-holder farmers where agriculturalists have been integrated into commercial cash cropping over long-distance commodity chains for a very long time. It is the nature of those markets, their relation to the state, and to the farming household that undertakes agricultural commodity production, that has changed. Through a techn…
Toward a Readers’ Uprising: Reflections in the Wake of Assaults on Books and Authors in Today’s India
Toward a Readers’ Uprising: Reflections in the Wake of Assaults on Books and Authors in Today’s India
One year later: Reflections on the farmers’ protest in India
Beginning November 2020, over two hundred thousand farmers have gathered in a prolonged sit-in on the borders of New Delhi. The immediate impetus for the protests was the passage of three laws that ease the entry of agribusiness into the agricultural sector. The farmers’ protests began eight months after mass protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, enacted in December 2019. This amendment to India’s Citizenship Act disbars Muslims from ne…
Terms of trade and the cost of cotton: The paradox of commercial agriculture in India
This essay engages the problem of agriculture and the market from the point of view of production. India is a nation of small-holder farmers where agriculturalists have been integrated into commercial cash cropping over long-distance commodity chains for a very long time. It is the nature of those markets, their relation to the state, and to the farming household that undertakes agricultural commodity production, that has changed. Through a techn…
Ritual as image: Materiality, social history, and the gendered economies of agrarian capitalism in central India
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the central Indian cotton belt, I examine two historical moments: (1) the expansion of agrarian capitalism and absorption of market logics into the peasant household in the colonial period; and (2) changes in seed technology and gendered labor required for cultivating hybrid cotton in the postcolonial era. Through these transformations, cotton farmers have maintained a harvest ritual in the fields. Through a c…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agricultural economics (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Art (1 works)