Bhaswati Das
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1249962 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bhaswati Das |
| PRENOMES | Bhaswati |
| SOBRENOME | Das |
| ASSINATURA | DAS B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6578-1416 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mind–Body Practice and Healthy Aging
This study examines the association between yoga practice and multidimensional health outcomes among older adults in India using nationally representative data from LASI Wave 1 (2017–2018). The analysis includes 28,482 individuals aged 60 years and above. Yoga participation was categorized by frequency, and its association with cognitive function, social engagement, physical activity, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, functional health, and lif…
Son Preference and Single-Child Families in India's Fertility Transition
Return Migrants and Economic Re-integration in Rural West Bengal, India
Return migration is relatively understudied. Return migrants are “the persons who are returning to their country of citizenship after having been international migrants in another country (both long-term and short-term migration) and who are intended to stay in their own country at least for a period of one year” (UNSD, 1998). We aim to understand how return migrants from different socio-economic backgrounds re-integrate into the economy of their…
Recognition, citizenship and rights
Recognition and citizenship issues play pivotal roles in understanding the complex interaction between different forms of inequalities. Citizenship should be treated as a practice intimately linked with individuals’ identities and rights, their sense of belonging and their actual nature of participation in the different spheres of their life. Exclusion is not just deprivation from the more tangible economic and social processes but also denying p…
Remittance arrangements within India and Covid-19
This article highlights emerging patterns of domestic remittance arrangements among migrant construction workers from West Bengal in Kerala that have now become defunct because of COVID-19. Earlier field surveys and in-depth interviews showed how Bengali migrant construction workers, relying on networks of friendship and trust, were learning to remit through formal channels, in contrast with many micro-studies showing the dominant role of informa…
Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration
Political Ecology in Merbeel
The interrelationship between human society and nature is multifarious. Indeed, interrelationship involves different power plays either in explicit or implicit forms. In different indigenous societies of the world, different actors have been influencing the natural resource management process. With time, the power plays commenced by such actors have been altering their forms with different actors at the zenith of hierarchical man-environment rela…
Labour Migration Within India
Large-scale interstate labour migration within India is facilitated by the freedom of movement for citizens within this huge nation state. However, such internal labour migration within India remains largely unstudied and offers huge scope for gaining significant new knowledge. Focusing particularly on migrant construction workers from West Bengal moving to Kerala, this article specifically examines the motivations of these migrants and the role …
Regional Patterns of Deprivation in India
India remains home to 300 million people who live in extreme poverty and face multiple deprivations. Their homes lack basic services ranging from water, sanitation, electricity, health to education (Millennium Development Report, 2014). By mining the data available in the latest 2011 Census, this article attempts to provide a scheme of regionalisation on the basis of multi-dimensional deprivation of households across districts through an assessme…
Regional Variation and Determinants of Well-being of the Elderly in India
The paper assessed the level of well-being in six states in India, namely Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Odisha, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The index of well-being was developed based on the Stanford Centre on Longevity (SCL) Index of well-being, Global ageing and Monitoring Project, 2011 with certain modifications. Indices for physical, social and emotional well-being are constructed using data from the Building a Knowledge Base…
Forest Conservation and Restraints on Economic Freedom of Fishermen in Sundarban Tiger Reserve, India
The environmental conservation in India is skewed towards environmental protection and hardly balanced with economic and social development and sustainability of the ‘ecosystem people’. Conservation initiatives have resulted in strife and political unrest in different parts of the country. This article reflects on one such conflict, namely the process of forest conservation in Indian Sundarban and how it restrains the economic freedom of the fish…
Is Nativity on Rise? Estimation of Interstate Migration Based on Census of India 2011 for Major States in India
Despite having high per capita income growth of all states during 1900s and 2000s, interstate inequality still remains. The proportion of internal mobility in India, including interstate mobility, responds to that inequality as it was in previous decades. The proportion of interstate migration has remained constantly low over the decades (since 1961), compared to the total internal migration, and it is estimated to decline to the level of the 198…
Assets Disparities among Social Groups
Accepting the socio-economic backwardness of some castes and tribes, the Indian Constitution has made special provisions for their improvement. To address the issue of social inequality, several policies in the post-Independence period have caste-based orientation. But the results have been far from satisfactory. Backward communities suffer prejudice, poverty and severe material hardships even now. The present article highlights the inequality be…
Household Quality of Living in Indian States
Household quality of living (HQL) refers to three broad aspects including housing condition, amenities and assets. The study is an attempt to investigate regional variation of Indian States in terms of HQL based on recently published 2011 Census data. It also investigates the changes of these aspects between two census periods at the national level. The policies launched so far to meet the minimum basic needs and the extent of achievement is also…
Decision-making and Fertility Behaviour
Women’s decision-making power in India is a much researched issue among the feminist social scientists. In the literature decision-making is frequently used synonymously as women’s status, women’s position in a society and in a household. Women’s decision-making play an important role in determining her reproductive health and fertility behaviour. National Family Health Survey (NFHS) incorporated some mobility and finance-related decision-making …
Changing socio-demographic composition of child labour
Child labour is an age-old phenomena in India. It is considered as harmful when it dampens the healthy development of the children. The Indian census provides information on working children by their age group, sex, residence, literacy status. This information is consistent in terms of the definitions adopted and its coverage and thus provides comparability. However, some of the cross tabulations of the information are not done in a comparable fa…
Population, Environment and Health
Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums
Organising for Social Change
Indian census
The current paper is an effort towards highlighting the i) changes in terms of its content and coverage, ii) steps towards modernisation. It will attempt to stress the changes made in the Indian census since its inception with special emphasis on the 2001 census. However, changes in definitions related to different concepts used in the Indian census are not in the scope of this paper
Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management
Nagaland State Human Development Report (NSHDR) 2004
Labour Migration Within India
Large-scale interstate labour migration within India is facilitated by the freedom of movement for citizens within this huge nation state. However, such internal labour migration within India remains largely unstudied and offers huge scope for gaining significant new knowledge. Focusing particularly on migrant construction workers from West Bengal moving to Kerala, this article specifically examines the motivations of these migrants and the role …
Remittance arrangements within India and Covid-19
This article highlights emerging patterns of domestic remittance arrangements among migrant construction workers from West Bengal in Kerala that have now become defunct because of COVID-19. Earlier field surveys and in-depth interviews showed how Bengali migrant construction workers, relying on networks of friendship and trust, were learning to remit through formal channels, in contrast with many micro-studies showing the dominant role of informa…
Recognition, citizenship and rights
Recognition and citizenship issues play pivotal roles in understanding the complex interaction between different forms of inequalities. Citizenship should be treated as a practice intimately linked with individuals’ identities and rights, their sense of belonging and their actual nature of participation in the different spheres of their life. Exclusion is not just deprivation from the more tangible economic and social processes but also denying p…
Assets Disparities among Social Groups
Accepting the socio-economic backwardness of some castes and tribes, the Indian Constitution has made special provisions for their improvement. To address the issue of social inequality, several policies in the post-Independence period have caste-based orientation. But the results have been far from satisfactory. Backward communities suffer prejudice, poverty and severe material hardships even now. The present article highlights the inequality be…
Decision-making and Fertility Behaviour
Women’s decision-making power in India is a much researched issue among the feminist social scientists. In the literature decision-making is frequently used synonymously as women’s status, women’s position in a society and in a household. Women’s decision-making play an important role in determining her reproductive health and fertility behaviour. National Family Health Survey (NFHS) incorporated some mobility and finance-related decision-making …
Nagaland State Human Development Report (NSHDR) 2004
Indian census
The current paper is an effort towards highlighting the i) changes in terms of its content and coverage, ii) steps towards modernisation. It will attempt to stress the changes made in the Indian census since its inception with special emphasis on the 2001 census. However, changes in definitions related to different concepts used in the Indian census are not in the scope of this paper
Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management
Organising for Social Change
Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums
Changing socio-demographic composition of child labour
Child labour is an age-old phenomena in India. It is considered as harmful when it dampens the healthy development of the children. The Indian census provides information on working children by their age group, sex, residence, literacy status. This information is consistent in terms of the definitions adopted and its coverage and thus provides comparability. However, some of the cross tabulations of the information are not done in a comparable fa…
Population, Environment and Health
Decision-making and Fertility Behaviour
Women’s decision-making power in India is a much researched issue among the feminist social scientists. In the literature decision-making is frequently used synonymously as women’s status, women’s position in a society and in a household. Women’s decision-making play an important role in determining her reproductive health and fertility behaviour. National Family Health Survey (NFHS) incorporated some mobility and finance-related decision-making …
Household Quality of Living in Indian States
Household quality of living (HQL) refers to three broad aspects including housing condition, amenities and assets. The study is an attempt to investigate regional variation of Indian States in terms of HQL based on recently published 2011 Census data. It also investigates the changes of these aspects between two census periods at the national level. The policies launched so far to meet the minimum basic needs and the extent of achievement is also…
Assets Disparities among Social Groups
Accepting the socio-economic backwardness of some castes and tribes, the Indian Constitution has made special provisions for their improvement. To address the issue of social inequality, several policies in the post-Independence period have caste-based orientation. But the results have been far from satisfactory. Backward communities suffer prejudice, poverty and severe material hardships even now. The present article highlights the inequality be…
Is Nativity on Rise? Estimation of Interstate Migration Based on Census of India 2011 for Major States in India
Despite having high per capita income growth of all states during 1900s and 2000s, interstate inequality still remains. The proportion of internal mobility in India, including interstate mobility, responds to that inequality as it was in previous decades. The proportion of interstate migration has remained constantly low over the decades (since 1961), compared to the total internal migration, and it is estimated to decline to the level of the 198…
Forest Conservation and Restraints on Economic Freedom of Fishermen in Sundarban Tiger Reserve, India
The environmental conservation in India is skewed towards environmental protection and hardly balanced with economic and social development and sustainability of the ‘ecosystem people’. Conservation initiatives have resulted in strife and political unrest in different parts of the country. This article reflects on one such conflict, namely the process of forest conservation in Indian Sundarban and how it restrains the economic freedom of the fish…
Regional Patterns of Deprivation in India
India remains home to 300 million people who live in extreme poverty and face multiple deprivations. Their homes lack basic services ranging from water, sanitation, electricity, health to education (Millennium Development Report, 2014). By mining the data available in the latest 2011 Census, this article attempts to provide a scheme of regionalisation on the basis of multi-dimensional deprivation of households across districts through an assessme…
Regional Variation and Determinants of Well-being of the Elderly in India
The paper assessed the level of well-being in six states in India, namely Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Odisha, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The index of well-being was developed based on the Stanford Centre on Longevity (SCL) Index of well-being, Global ageing and Monitoring Project, 2011 with certain modifications. Indices for physical, social and emotional well-being are constructed using data from the Building a Knowledge Base…
Labour Migration Within India
Large-scale interstate labour migration within India is facilitated by the freedom of movement for citizens within this huge nation state. However, such internal labour migration within India remains largely unstudied and offers huge scope for gaining significant new knowledge. Focusing particularly on migrant construction workers from West Bengal moving to Kerala, this article specifically examines the motivations of these migrants and the role …
Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration
Political Ecology in Merbeel
The interrelationship between human society and nature is multifarious. Indeed, interrelationship involves different power plays either in explicit or implicit forms. In different indigenous societies of the world, different actors have been influencing the natural resource management process. With time, the power plays commenced by such actors have been altering their forms with different actors at the zenith of hierarchical man-environment rela…
Remittance arrangements within India and Covid-19
This article highlights emerging patterns of domestic remittance arrangements among migrant construction workers from West Bengal in Kerala that have now become defunct because of COVID-19. Earlier field surveys and in-depth interviews showed how Bengali migrant construction workers, relying on networks of friendship and trust, were learning to remit through formal channels, in contrast with many micro-studies showing the dominant role of informa…
Return Migrants and Economic Re-integration in Rural West Bengal, India
Return migration is relatively understudied. Return migrants are “the persons who are returning to their country of citizenship after having been international migrants in another country (both long-term and short-term migration) and who are intended to stay in their own country at least for a period of one year” (UNSD, 1998). We aim to understand how return migrants from different socio-economic backgrounds re-integrate into the economy of their…
Recognition, citizenship and rights
Recognition and citizenship issues play pivotal roles in understanding the complex interaction between different forms of inequalities. Citizenship should be treated as a practice intimately linked with individuals’ identities and rights, their sense of belonging and their actual nature of participation in the different spheres of their life. Exclusion is not just deprivation from the more tangible economic and social processes but also denying p…
Son Preference and Single-Child Families in India's Fertility Transition
Mind–Body Practice and Healthy Aging
This study examines the association between yoga practice and multidimensional health outcomes among older adults in India using nationally representative data from LASI Wave 1 (2017–2018). The analysis includes 28,482 individuals aged 60 years and above. Yoga participation was categorized by frequency, and its association with cognitive function, social engagement, physical activity, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, functional health, and lif…
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