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FROM THE EDITOR 01

SEMINARS 01

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS 03

B.G. KUMAR LECTURE 04

CAMPUS NEWS 09

STUDENTS SPEAK 09

EVENTS 05

K.N. RAJ LIBRARY NEWS 08

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Volume 11. Issue 1 January - March, 2015

EditorC. Gasper

Compiled by

Tilak Baker

Published by the DirectorCentre for Development Studies

Prasanth Nagar Road, Ulloor, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 011Phone: 0471-2774200, 2448881 Website: www.cds.edu

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FACULTY’S INVOLVEMENT 06

TRAINING PROGRAMMES 03

PUBLICATIONS 11

BOOK TALK 13

F R O M T H E E D I T O R

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S E M I N A R S

Welfare Comparisons with MultidimensionalWell-being Indicators: An Indian Illustration

U.S.Mishra and Vachaspati ShuklaCentre for Development Studies

9 January

Problem of making welfare comparisons betweenpopulations with multidimensional discrete well-being indicators are well known. Application of aweighting scheme remains a convenient alternativefor aggregating across dimensions but not withoutthe limitation of subjectivity in the principle ofweighting. Fur ther dichotomous well-beingindicators pose another complexity in comparisonas regard counting ‘how many’ and ‘which ones’at the same time. This paper attempts a welfarecomparison of population where only ordinalinformation is available at the micro level in terms ofmulti-dimensional discrete well-being indicators.This does not involve any assumption eitherregarding strength of preference for each dimensionor regarding the desirability of changes betweenlevels within or across dimensions or thecomplementarities/substitutability between thedimensions. To carry out such a comparison, weadopt the concept of multidimensional first orderdominance that enables us to make comparisonacross time and between populations based on aseries of binary or multi-levelled ordinal welfareindicators. This concept is applied to the data onHousehold basic amenities obtained in the NSSO

rounds and comparison is made across Indianstates. Such a comparison offers a contrast to thewelfare comparison made in terms of the deprivationprevalence across dimensions as well as its temporalchanges.

Reflections on India’sEmergence in the World Economy

Amit Shovon Ray and Sunandan GhoshCentre for Development Studies

16 January

This paper attempts to capture how India embracedthe world economy against the backdrop of theevolving domestic and international economicpolicy environment. We begin with a brief overviewof the evolution of India’s development policyframework. Next, we attempt to understand whyIndia failed to join the league of ‘Asian Miracle’economies that embarked upon a phenomenalgrowth path during 1960s, 70s and 80s. This isfollowed by a quantitative presentation of theprocess of India’s integration with the worldeconomy that was effectively set in motion onlyafter a turnaround in its policy regime in the 1990s.Finally, we conclude that India’s post-colonialpolicy thrust on public funded higher educationand research in science & technology, creating astrong base of human capital and technologicalcapability, acted as the key drivers of India’seconomic emergence during the last couple ofdecades.

The research discussion at CDS during the

first quar ter of 2015 focused on assessing

well-being, urbanization, industrial ization,

the role of trademarks in innovation and

compe t i t i on and t he g row th o f I nd i an

e c o n o m y w i t h t h a t o f o t h e r A s i a n

countr ies.

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Industrialisation in Asia: A ComparativeAnalysis of the Indian and East Asian

Experiences

Etsuro IshigamiProfessor, Fukuoka University, Fukoka, Japan

&Visiting Fellow at CDS

23 January

The paper looks into why India has been a laggardin the modern manufacturing in terms of GDPcomposition, even since the introduction ofeconomic liberalisation? The picture is striking whenit is compared to the experience of the East Asianeconomies. Nearly a quarter century will not be ashort period for a country like India to transform themanufacturing sector to more competitive andmodern industry as long as policy makers intendlike that.

There has been rich accumulation of literature onthe manufacturing related area such issues as theinformalisation, manufacturing employment, labourrelated law, inequality of regional development andthe recent ‘Gujarat Model’ debate. Also another hugestudies on the liberalization: the periodization in termsof various criteria, policy issue and ‘pro-businessor pro-market’ and so on. Fur thermore, newentrepreneurs (capitalists) are coming up. Weunderstand the importance and relevance of theseissues concerning the per formance of themanufacturing sector as well as the whole economy.

The aim of this research is to examine underlyingfactors of the sluggish transformation of the industryin India. Firstly, we discuss the recent study on thecatch up of the Asian economies including Indiaand some aspects of Indian manufacturing’slagging behind from those. Then we examines ourresearch depicting the structure of local steelindustry and cycle/ cycle parts manufacturers inPunjab and its implication to the subject matter.

Thirdly, we discuss the role of government andinstitutions, and business behaviour of corporatesector including entrepreneurship. We add twopoints for your understanding. Our small researchon just a part of Punjab’s manufacturing sector isseemingly un-related story of the subject. However,we understand that even small field research onlocal, low-end manufacturing firms will provide ussome idea about both how the government policyworks and what the business of potentially bottomplayer of ‘Make in India’ is. We are going to conducta research in Coimbatore and make collaborationwith scholars working in other regions. Secondpoint is to consider the role of the ‘national brand’entrepreneurs or large business groups whoseinvestment behaviour is to put significant impacton the direction of industry transformation in aliberalised era.

The Demographic Transitionand Urbanization

Tim DysonProfessor of Population Studies, London School

of Economics, UK

30 March

Beyond the field of economic and demographichistory, the issue of how urbanization comes abouthas received little attention. It is often thought thaturbanization results chiefly from structuraleconomic change—especially the movement ofpeople out of agriculture into industry thataccompanies economic growth. There is atendency to focus on the proximate cause ofurbanization that is rural to urban migration. Butexplanations of urbanization in terms of economicdevelopment have problems—not least, the factthat in sub-Saharan Africa urbanization has beenrapid and urban growth has been very rapid. Thefact that demographic processes are crucial in

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causing urbanization (and urban growth) is notnew. Indeed, much of the case addressed herecan be found in Graunt’s work of 1662. However,the most direct explanation of how urbanizationresults from the demographic transition is providedby de Vries—who advances a stylized sector-specific model in this context. Against thisbackground, the present paper forwards empiricalsector-specific illustrations of the demographictransition for Sweden and Sri Lanka. Both

C O N F E R E N C E S / W O R K S H O P S Inception cum Consultative Workshop ofthe Project “River Restoration in Kerala:Developing a co-evolutionary Framework

and River Restoration action plan forTrivandrum City”

17 March

Co-ordinator: K.N. Harilal

T R A I N I N G P R O G R A M M E SICSSR Sponsored Orientation Programme for

Doctoral Students

23-27 March

Co-ordinators: U.S. Mishra & Vinoj Abraham

illustrations use national data, rather than data formajor towns (e.g. London, Mumbai). The papermaintains that understanding and policy relatingto the process of urbanization in low and middleincome countries have been compromised by thefact that the demographic basis of the process islargely unknown. It also questions whether thespeed of urbanization in recent decades has beenunexceptional by historical standards as is oftenclaimed.

A Research Week for researchers in social scienceswas held at CDS from 23rd to 27th March, 2015.This was a special drive towards capacity buildingof scholars belonging to the under-privileged

An inception workshop was organised by theResearch Unit on Local Self Governments for thestudy on “River Restoration in Kerala: Developing a

co-evolutionary Frame work and River Restorationaction plan for Trivandrum City” at the CDS on 17March 2015.

Workshop on India’s Plantation Sector

30-31, March

Co-ordinator: K.J. Joseph

A Workshop on India’s Plantation Sector organisedby National Research Programme on PlantationDevelopment was held at the CDS during 30-31March, 2015.

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category. This initiation was sponsored by the ICSSRand received an encouraging par ticipation ofdoctoral students from the institutes and Universitiesin the southern region. A total of 18 candidates

par ticipated in the orientation programme thatfocussed on topics like conceptualization, writingskills and research methods (qualitative andquantitative) suiting to the areas of researchengagement of the participants. Alongside specialmentoring sessions were held for group ofparticipants engaged in similar areas of work toresolve various problems and bottlenecks in theirresearch. Although it was an initiative with adifference, the feedback received from theparticipants were more than encouraging in termsof meeting their expectation and value addition totheir skills. Similar training programmes will be highlyhelpful to individual researchers.

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Do Trademarks Foster or Inhibit Innovationand Competition?

Christine GreenhalghEmeritus Professor, University of Oxford.

21 January

like what are trademarks designed to accomplishas intellectual property rights, what evidence existsthat they enhance firm and market performance,what are the recent debates about their non-competitive aspects, what changes to trademarklaw could improve the performance of this type ofintellectual proper ty right? The lecture gaveanswers to the questions by observing thattrademarks clearly benefit firms and societies, theypermit markets to function well by conveyinginformation to customers and investors. However,strong evidence exists of faults in the way the TMsystem is operating so at present, it is clearly sub-optimal, further it cannot change basic nature oftrademark law – the long duration of TM rights isinevitable, but can look to changing the way thelaw is drafted and implemented to improve itsfunctioning as a signal of product origin andproduct quality.

The lecture was followed by an interactive questionsession with the audience.

Professor Christine Greenhalgh, Emeritus Professor,University of Oxford delivered the Sixth B.G. KumarLecture on ‘Do Trademarks Foster or InhibitInnovation and Competition?’ at CDS on 21st

January 2015. The lecture addressed questions

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E V E N T S

Women’s Day Celebrations

The CDS community celebrated Women’s Day

on 9 March 2015 with an evening well balanced

in terms of intellectual discussion and fun events.

The event began with a brief history of the origin

of Women’s day presented by one of the M.A.

first year students followed by a talent competition

for children. A Ph.D. scholar presented a literary

excerpt and one of the M.A. second year students

read out an original Hindi poem entitled “Naari”.

The highlight of the evening was a panel

discussion on the issue of ‘Consent’ and its

interpretations,which was a theme chosen by

students in light of the contemporary events,

particularly the BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya

case. The panel chaired by Sundari Ravindran

TK and comprising Mala Ramanathan, Amit

Shovon Ray, Praveena Kodoth and J. Devika

brought for th several aspects of the theme,

including the inter temporal connotations, degree

of consent, etc. Most of the panel members

were skeptical of ‘consent’ in view of the power

relations that operate in the process of obtaining

consent. However, objections to this viewpoint

were raised in view of the fact that India is not a

country where ‘consent’ is socially acceptable

since historically, it has been a society where the

consent of women from underprivileged castes

was taken for granted. It also addressed several

questions raised by members of the audience.

The discussion was followed by fun events

including musical chairs for the ladies and

gentlemen. A quiz on women achievers from

Policy Discussion

A special policy discussion was arranged at the

Centre on 11th February, 2015. Professor Rajeev

Malhotra, Professor and Executive Director, Centre

for Development and Finance, Jindal School of

Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global

University, Haryana highlighted the major policy

issues in the ‘Indian Public Policy Report-2014’ in

the context of Kerala’s development over the last

three decades.

diverse spheres was conducted for the students.

As par t of the celebrations, an Iranian film

“Offside” by Jafar Panahi was screened on 11th

March. The film is a satire on the issue of Iranian

women who were arrested for attempting to

watch a football match in stadium. It explores

the Man-Woman dynamic set against the

backdrop of football, primarily considered a

“Man’s game”.

Amrita Brahmo

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F A C U L T Y ’ S I N V O L V E M E N T

Faculty’s Domestic Involvement

P.L. Beena presented a paper titled ‘EmploymentPatterns in India: Where does Social SecurityMeasures Figure?’ at the Seminar on SocialSecurity, sponsored and organised by AKGResearch Centre and held at the RUBCOAuditorium, Kannur on March 21, 2015.

-Delivered a Key note address titled ‘EmploymentPattern and Social Security Issues in India duringNeoliberal Regimes’ in the Seminar on SocialSecurity, sponsored by AKG Research Centreon March 21st, 2015 at RUBCO Auditorium,Kannur.

-Chaired and co-ordinated two sessions on‘Labour and Social Security’ & ‘Domestic MigrantLabour and Social Security,’ in the Seminar onSocial Security, sponsored by AKG ResearchCentre on March 21, 2015 at RUBCOAuditorium, Kannur.

-Attended Board of Studies meeting organisedby the Depar tment of Economics, Mar IvaniosCollege, Thiruvananthapuram on February 9th,2014.

S. Irudaya Rajan par ticipated in the SecondInternational Conference on Global Diaspora inJanuary 10-11, 2015 organised by Institute ofManagement, Nirma University, Ahmedabad,Gujarat in cooperation with World Associationof Global Diaspora Studies (WADIS) and spokeon ‘Engaging Indian Diaspora: Philanthropy andHuman Development’.

-Participated as expert in the Plenary Session 2:Youth and Labour Migration of national seminaron Youth Employment in India: Trends,Challenges and Policy Responses during 30-31

January, 2015 at RGNIYD, Sriperumbadur.

-Par ticipated as resource person in ICSSRSponsored Research Methodology Programmeon January 27 – February 5, 2015 held atParvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science,Goa and spoke on ‘Sampling Techniques toconduct large scale surveys’.

-Presented a paper on ‘Social Costs ofTransnational Migration’ in National Seminar‘Interrogating Boarders: Migration andTransnationalism’ at Mar thoma TheologicalSeminary, Kottayam on 17-19 February, 2015.

-Lectured on ‘Emerging Bihar 2040: Issues andChallenges’ in PGDM programme ofChandragupt Institute of Management, Patna on16th February, 2015.

-Delivered a key note address to the AVANCER2015 –National Seminar on ‘Social WorkIntervention in Filial Piety and Social Security:Issues, Challenges and Implications’ organisedby Depar tment of Social Work, St. Joseph’sCollege, Pilathara, Kannur held at St. Joseph’sCollege, Kannur on 20-21 February, 2015.

-Attended the National Seminar on EducationalStatus of Scheduled Castes: Attainment andChallenges from 24th to 25th February 2015 atICSSR Conference hall, New Delhi sponsoredand organised by ICSSR and spoke about theKerala Report.

-Delivered a speech regarding History, Globalunderstanding, meaning definitions, types,characteristics, causes, rationale – highlights theintensity of the problem in National Consultationon Migration held at Indian Social Institute,Benson Town, Bengaluru on 20-22 March, 2015.

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-Delivered a key note address to the nationalseminar on ‘Migrat ion, change andDevelopment’ organised by Depar tment ofSociology, Universi ty of Kerala held atKariavattom Campus on 23-24 March, 2015.

K.J. Joseph delivered an invited lecture on‘Challenges of Industrial Development in Kerala’in the Seminar on Kerala Economy, organisedby Christian College, Chengannur on February4, 2015.

-Delivered a plenary address on ‘InstitutionalDeficits in Sustainable Development: Case ofPlantat ion Agr icul ture in India’ in theInternational Conference on Economic ReformsGrowth and Sustainable Development-Changing Role of Institutions, at CentralUniversity of Kerala, Kasargod during February16-18, 2015.

Praveena Kodoth presented a paper ‘Migrationand the Transformation of Marriage and Familyin Kerala,’ at a Conference on InterrogatingBorders: Migration and Transformation, at theMar Thoma Theological Seminary, Kottayam,on March 18, 2015.

Sunil Mani was a discussant to paper on‘Prospects and Constraints of ManufacturingGrowth in India’ presented at the conferenceon Achieving Accelerated ManufacturingGrowth: The Promise and Challenges, MIDSand the British Nor thern Universities IndiaForum (BNUIF), Chennai, January 2, 2015

-Delivered a lecture on ‘Strategic Role of Statein Promoting Innovations at the Firm Level:The Indian Experience,’ at the National Seminaron ‘Strategic Management in a GlobalizedScenario’, Deva Matha College, Kuravilangad,Kottayam, January 13, 2015.

-Taught an elective on ‘Innovation andTechnology Policy (EC-248)’ to PGDM students,Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,Kolkata, February 4-14, 2015-Ten lectures of 1hour and 30 minutes each.

Upasak Das was invited to be a speaker on‘Ensuring Adequate Investments for Health’ inthe meeting to discuss the draft National HealthPolicy, Achutha Menon Centre for HealthScience Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute forMedical Science and Technology, Trivandrumon February 7, 2015.

Vinoj Abraham presented the paper titled‘MGNREGS: Polit ical Economy, LocalGovernance and Asset Creation in South IndianStates’, at the National Conference on KeralaEconomy: Challenges and Way Forward,organised by K.N. Raj Centre for Planning andCentre-State Financial Relations, M.G. Universityat Kottayam during March 28-29, 2015.

Faculty’s Global Involvement

S. Irudaya Rajan participated in a discussionon ‘Recovery after Displacement- Tale fromThree Cities’ at International Centre for EthnicStudies, Colombo on March 27th, 2015.

K.J. Joseph delivered the opening lecture on‘Building New Bridges between InnovationSystem and Development Studies,’ in theAfricalics PhD Academy on March 2, 2015.

Sunil Mani presented a paper on ‘InternationalTechnology Transfer to and from India: AnAnalysis of India’s Engagement with AsianCountries’ at the International Workshop on‘Firm- to Firm matching with TechnologyTransfers in the Local Economy: Findings fromSoutheast Asia’, IDE-JETRO, Bangkok,Thailand, February 10, 2015.

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-Taught an elective on ‘Innovation andTechnology Policy’ to Master level students atUniversity of Toulouse Jean Jaures, Toulouse,France, March 18-28, 2015 - 16 hrs of lectures.

Achievements

Dr. K. P. Kannan, former Director of CDS, hasbeen invited to join the International Panel onSocial Progress as a Lead Author, along with agroup of other scholars from around the world,to prepare a global repor t on the perspectivesfor social progress in the various regions of t heworld in the coming decades. The Panel hopesthat the repor t will contribute to focusing publicand academic attention to the policy andresearch questions having to do with thepromotion of social justice in the world for thecoming generations.

The purpose of the International Panel on SocialProgress (IPSP) is to harness the competenceof academics of all relevant disciplines,

perspectives, and regions of the world to assessand synthesize the state-of-the-ar t knowledgeon the principles, possibilities, and methods forimproving the main institutions of the modernsocieties. The Panel will discuss desirablereforms and structural changes, and examinetheir feasibility. Consensual conclusions andpersisting controversies will be laid out by aninterdisciplinary team of social scientists eachof whom is willing and able to engage acrossdisciplines to inform scholars, policy makersand social actors on what the best socialscience can, and cannot, say. The Panel is aninitiative by a group of social scientists fromdifferent countries with an Advisory Panelheaded by Professor Amartya Sen. CDS is happyto have Professor K.P.Kannan as an HonoraryFellow.

Beena PL, is a member of the Board of Studiesin Economics in Mar Ivanios College,Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

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During January to March, 2015, themembership for borrowing increased by 9and the membership for reference increasedby 210. The total collection in the libraryincreased by 369 books (including LSGArchive resources), 25 working papers and5 CD-ROMs. The library catalogue [OPAC]is available online at http://cdslib.cds.ac.in:8080/opac/. New postsnumbering 402 were added to the onlinecontent aler t service site, http://knrajlibrary.wordpress.com/ .

In connection with the InternationalWomen’s Day celebrations at CDS, K. N.

Raj Library organised a special bookexhibition at the ground floor of the NewLibrary Tower from 7th to 13th March 2015.Books displayed in the exhibition consistedmainly of the recent additions to the libraryon ‘gender studies’. A ‘book review’ wasorganised on 8th January 2015. Mr. KrishanSharma reviewed the book, viz., ‘FourLectures on Marxism’ written by Paul M.Sweezy. Review was lively and was wellattended.

Students doing Master’s (MPH) andDiploma (DPH) degrees in Public Healthat Achutha Menon Centre for Health

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January in front of the main building.Faculty, staff and students were present onthe occasion.

Spicmacay

Alms(To all the ladies the nation pretends tounderstand, but never does. Sympathy wouldbe an affront, Empathy an insult. Only respect)“Today I give you my lover in almsTake him.Spare me that look of gratitude, pity.I do not need it.

S T U D E N T S S P E A K

A ‘Music Evening’ was organised with thehelp of SPICMACAY at CDS auditoriumon 5th February, 2015. The violin maestroPadmabhusan Professor T.N. Krishnanaccompanied by two well known artists,namely, Trivandrum Surendran (mridangam)& Udupi Sreedharan (ghadam) presented aviolin recital. The programme was attendedby the students, staff and other membersof the CDS community.

Holi Celebrations

Holi was celebrated with pomp and colouron the campus on March 6, 2015.

Fear not, he will love you,As much as he loves me, almost.He will die for you, I’m sureBut his soul lives only for me.That is not mine to give away.You keep looking with feignedcompassion,Once it would have irritated me

Studies (SCTIMST) visited the library on08th January 2015. The students doingBachelor of Library and InformationScience in Kannur University visited thelibrary on 20th January 2015. The Librarystaff had made efforts to familiarizethem with the collections, services andthe practices of the library on bothoccasions.

V. Sr iram, Chief Librar ian had anopportunity to deliver a lecture on ‘E-Resources , Li terature Search andReference Management’ at the two dayworkshop on Research Methodology inSocial Sciences organised by Postgraduateand Research Department of PoliticalScience, Sree Narayana College, Kollamon 31st January 2015. He had alsoparticipated in the workshop on theGlobal Open Knowledge Project of IDS,Sussex held at IGIDR, Mumbai during12-13th March, 2015.

V. Sriram

CAMPUS NEWS

Republic Day

The national flag was hoisted by theDirector, Prof Amit S Ray, at 9 am on 26

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Now no one but him is worthy of mysecond glanceMy last glance

If you miss me...If you miss me...If you miss me, feel the falling rainTouch the shimmering drop as it falls,A smile and wink, it hides again.In dreams I met you,I came.

If you miss me, look upThe light plays peek-a-booThrough the patterned leavesThe sheen of gold as it twinklesthrough locks.In dreams, we wove colourful weaves,I came.

If you miss me, listen for the soundsof calm,

Each singing our favourite songRushing waves breathed in and out, inwait.In dreams, we had a sail boat,I came.

If you miss me, there’s flavoured respite,In spice and tang, and sweetnessbesideThe blandness of lonely mealstransformed.In dreams, we are at a banquet tonight,I came.

You missed me, you say you cried.I say you couldn’t if you tried.I am there still,I never left

Amrita BrahmoMA (2014-16)

“You may take him”, she saidLooking at the wrapped tricolour“Your nation’s hero lies there,My love never left.”

New Appointments

Faculty:

Dr. Srikanta Kundu joined the CDS as AssistantProfessor on 12 January, 2015.

Prof. Manmohan Agarwal joined the CDS asRBI Chair Professor with effect from 13 March,2015.

Administration

Ms. Reeshma R.S. joined the CDS asJr. Accountant on 26 March, 2015.

Mr. Sai Babu S joined CDS as Attendant on 23March, 2015.

Medical Camp

A medical camp was organised at CDS on14th January, 2015. The health workers fromthe Health Department of Kerala distributedtablets for the prevention of lymphaticfilariasis. This was well attended by staffand students.

Martyr’s Day

Martyr’s Day was observed on 30 January, 2015in memory of those who gave their lives in thestruggle for India’s freedom. A two minutes’silence was observed at 11:00 A.M. on theday.

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P U B L I C A T I O N S

Books

Balakrishnan, Pulapre. (ed) 2015. Economic Growthand its Distribution in India, Hyderabad: OrientBlackswan, 2015.

Irudaya Rajan, S. 2015. (ed.) India Migration Report2015: Gender and Migration. Routledge, New Delhi.

Irudaya Rajan, S; V.J. Varghese and Aswini KumarNanda (eds.). 2015. Migrations, Mobility andMultiple Affiliations: Punjabis in a TransnationalWorld. Cambridge University Press, New Delhi.

Joseph, K.J., Lakhwinder Sigh Daniel, K. N.Johnson (eds.).2015. Technology, Innovations andDevelopment: Essays in Honour of Robert E.Evenson, July, Sage Publication.

Journal Articles

Devika, J. 2015. ‘Land, Politics, Work and Home-life in a City Slum: Reconstructing History from OralNarratives’, History and Sociology of South Asia9(1), January, 53-79.

Devika, J. 2015. ‘Cochin Creole and the Perils ofCasteist Cosmopolitanism’, Journal ofCommonwealth Literature [in Online First platform],DOI: 10.1177/00219894

Balakrishnan, Pulapre. 2015. ‘Kerala and the Restof India: What we can learn for each other’sDevelopment Experience?’ Economic and PoliticalWeekly, Vol. - L No. 2, January 10.

Das, Upasak. 2015. ‘Does Political Activity andAffiliation Affect Allocation of Benefits in the RuralEmployment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence fromWest Bengal, India,’World Development, 67, March,pp. 202-217.

Das, Upasak, with K. Ranaware, S. Narayanan andA. Kulkarni. 2015. ‘MGNREGA Works and theirImpacts: A Study of Maharashtra,’ Economic andPolitical Weekly, Vol - L No. 13, March 28.

Haldar, Tanushree and Vinoj Abraham. 2015.‘Development, Displacement and Labour MarketMarginalization: The Case of Jharkhand TribalPopulation’, Social Change, Vol. 45, No.1, March.

Harilal K.N. and Dhanya V. 2015. ‘The WTOAgreement on Agriculture and TropicalCommodities: Study in the Context of South India’,Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol.5, No. 1, January-June, 2015.

Irudaya Rajan, S. 2015. ‘Migration and Development:In Pursuit of Unlimited Debates’, Migration andDevelopment, Volume 4, No.1, pp.1-3.

Mallick, Hrushikesh (Co-authored with MuhammadShahbaz, Mantu Kumar Mahalikc & NanthakumarLoganathan). 2015. ‘Does Globalization ImpedeEnvironmental Quality in India? EcologicalIndicators 52, 379–393.

Miriam George, Wendy Kliewer, and S. IrudayaRajan. 2015. ‘Rather than Talking in Tamil, theyShould be Talking to Tamils: Sri Lankan TamilRefugee Readiness for Repatriation,’ Refugee SurveyQuarterly , 34 (2): 1-22.

Chapter(s) in Books

Balakrushna Padhi, U.S. Mishra and MohammadKashif Khan 2015. ‘Is Poverty Comparable Acrossvarying Size of Population Among Indian States’ inAlmas Heshmati, Guanghua Wan and EsfandiarMaasoumi (Eds) Poverty Reduction Policies andPractices in Developing Asia, Asian DevelopmentBank and Springer International Publishing AG.

Devika, J. 2015. ‘Official Statistics or Everyday Life?Women in Contemporary Kerala’, in Devaki Jainand CP Sujaya (eds.), Women in India:Contemporary Essays, Publications Division, Go I,New Delhi.

Irudaya Rajan, S and Aswini Kumar Nanda 2015.‘Transnational World and Indian Punjab:

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Contemporary Issues,’ pp.1-36 in S. Irudaya Rajan,V.J. Varghese and Aswini Kumar Nanda (eds.). 2015.Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations:Punjabis in a Transnational World. CambridgeUniversity Press, New Delhi.

Irudaya Rajan, S and Jolin Joseph 2015. ‘MigrantWomen at the Discourse–policy Nexus: IndianDomestic Workers in Saudi Arabia,’ Chapter 2, pp.9-25 in S. Irudaya Rajan (ed). -India Migration Report2015: Gender and Migration, Routledge, New Delhi.

Irudaya Rajan, S and Sumeetha M. 2015. ‘Survival,Struggle and the Promise of a new Future: Livingand Working Conditions of Migrant Workers inKerala. Chapter 16, pp. 240 -255. in S. IrudayaRajan (ed). -India Migration Report 2015: Genderand Migration, Routledge, New Delhi.

Irudaya Rajan, S; B. A. Prakash and Arya Suresh.2015. ‘Wage Differentials between Indian MigrantWorkers in the Gulf and Non-migrant Workers inIndia,’ Chapter 20, pp. 297-310 in S. Irudaya Rajan(ed). -India Migration Report 2015: Gender andMigration. Routledge, New Delhi

Joseph, K.J. 2015. ‘Building of Health InnovationSystem,’ in Cassiolato and Soares (eds) HealthInnovation System: Equity and Development, e-papers Rio de Janeiro.

Kodoth, Praveena. 2015. ‘Stepping into the Man’sShoes: Emigrant Domestic Workers as Breadwinnersand the Gender Norm in Kerala in Kerala,’ in S.Irudaya Rajan (ed.), India Migration Report, NewDelhi: Routledge.

Mani, Sunil. 2015. ‘Economic Liberalization andthe Performance of Public Sector Enterprises inIndia’, in Edmund Terence Gomez, Francois Bafoil,and Kee-Cheok Cheong (eds.), Government-LinkedCompanies and Sustainable, EquitableDevelopment, New York: Routledge, pp. 18-38.

Varghese, V.J. and S. Irudaya Rajan. 2015.‘Migration as a Transnational Enterprise: Migrationsfrom Eastern Punjab and the Question of Social

Licitness,’ Chapter 7, pp.166-195 in S. IrudayaRajan, V.J. Varghese and Aswini Kumar Nanda (eds).Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations:Punjabis in a Transnational World. CambridgeUniversity Press, New Delhi.

Zachariah, K. C. and S. Irudaya Rajan. 2015. ‘FromKerala to Kerala via the Gulf: Emigration Experiencesof Return Emigrants,’ Chapter 18, pp. 269 – 280 inS. Irudaya Rajan (ed). -India Migration Report 2015:Gender and Migration. Routledge, New Delhi.

NRPPD Discussion Papers

Rinju Rasaily.2015. ‘Vulnerables in the Small TeaGrower Sector: Locating Ethnicity and GenderInterface in the STGS Value Chain in North Bengal,’NRPPD Discussion Paper:40.

Kingshuk Sarkar.2015. ‘Wages, Mobility and LabourMarket Institutions in Tea Plantations: The Case ofWest Bengal and Assam,’ NRPPD DiscussionPaper:41.

Indraneel Bhowmik and P.K. Viswanathan. 2015.‘Emerging Labour Relations in the Small RubberPlantations of Tripura,’ NRPPD Discussion Paper:42.

RULSG Occasional Papers

Patnaik, Prabhat. 2015. ‘Two Perspectives onDecentralization,’ Occasional Paper 2015:1, CDS-RULSG, Thiruvananthapuram.

Oommen, M.A. 2015. ‘Local Governments in thefiscal space of Indian Federalism: Towards morerational arrangements,’ Occasional Paper 2015:2,CDS-RULSG, Thiruvananthapuram.

Harilal K. N. and Eswaran K.K. 2015. ‘AgrarianQuestion and Local Governments in Kerala,’Occasional Paper 2015:3, CDS-RULSG,Thiruvananthapuram.

Other Publications

Mani, Sunil, Review of the book Architects ofGrowth?: Sub-national Governments andIndustrialization in Asia, Edited by Francis E.Hutchinson. Singapore: ISEAS, 2014. PacificAffairs, Vol.88, No: 2, pp. 261-263.

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Migration, Mobility and MultipleAffiliations: Punjabis in a Transnational

World

Edited by

S. Irudaya Rajan,

V.J. Varghese,

Aswini Kumar Nanda

Cambridge University Press 2015.

Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations studies

Punjabi transnational life from perspectives that have

relevance form contemporary policy, planning and

governance. It analyses spatially widespread,

integrated and complex Punjabi diaspora while

simultaneously reflecting their vulnerability in an

increasingly globalised world. Besides an

overarching introduction and a historical overview,

this book covers shifting contours of international

migration, social structure and organizational links,

interrelationships between education and migration,

and family networks of the Punjabi emigrants to

focus on Punjabi transnationalism.

This book is an outcome of a larger study the CDS

undertook with the funding from the European

Commission (EC) on Transnationalism, Migration

and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant

Transnationalism (TRANSNET) of the 7th Framework

Programme, with multidisciplinary teams

participating from Africa, Asia and Europe. The

project sites included the United Kingdom, Estonia,

Finland, France, Germany, India, Morocco and

Turkey.

Most of the papers published in the book, were

presented at the International Conference on

B O O K T A L K

Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations: Punjabis

in a Transnational World, partly funded by the

Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the EC.

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor, Ministry of

Overseas Indian Affairs, Research Unit on

International Migration, Centre for Development

Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala , India.

V.J. Varghese is at the Department of History, School

of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad.

Previously he was associated with the Ministry of

Overseas Indian Affairs Research Unit on

International Migration at the Centre for Development

Studies, Thiruvananthapuram,

Aswini Kumar Nanda is Professor at the Population

Research Centre, Centre for Research in Rural and

Industrial Development, Chandigarh, India

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Please send your contributions and responses to the editor: gasper@cds.ac.in

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