Selected Publications:

Research Papers

 

            'Size-productivity revisited', Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), Vol. 11, No. 39, Review of Agriculture, September 25, pp. A 104-A 116, 1976 (with Ashok Rudra).

 

            'Some aspects of employment and unemployment in agriculture', Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), Vol. 12, No. 39, Review of Agriculture, September 24, pp. A 66- A 76, 1976.

 

            'Agricultural labourers of Birbhum', Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (Bombay), Vol. XXXIV, No. 3., pp. 42-50, July- September, 1979.

 

            'Relative efficiency of owner and tenant cultivation: A case study', Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) , Vol. 14, No. 39, pp. A.93- A 96, September 29, 1979.

 

            'Agrarian structure, proletarianisation and social mobilization', Sociological Bulletin (Delhi), Vol. 30, No. 2, September, pp. 137-162, 1981, (with              P.N. Mukherji).

 

            'Role of female labour in Indian agriculture', Social Scientist (Trivandrum),      No. 110, July, pp. 43-54, 1982.

 

            'Tenurial Contract in Peasant Movement Belt: Field  Survey Data on Naxalbari, Kharibari and Phansidewa Regions', Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay),Vol. 18, No. 26, Review of Agriculture, June, pp. A 71- A 79,1983,      ( with  S.K. Ghosh)

 

'Transformations of labour use in Indian agriculture', Cambridge Journal of Economics (London), Vol. 8, pp, 289-296, 1984.

 

            'Time trends in level of living in rural India- A Critical survey of literature', paper presented to a Workshop on Rural Economic Change in South Asia: Differences in Approach and in Results Between Large Scale Surveys and Intensive Micro Studies organised by Social Science Research Council, New York, at Bangalore, During 5-8 August, 1985 (with N. Bhattacharya and P. Chakraborty).

 

            'Class differentiation and agrarian mobilization', paper presented to a Symposium on Social Movement and Social Change: Theory and Practice  at the World Congress of Sociology, at New Delhi, during 18-23 August , 1986.

 

'Growth of Indian agriculture: A reappraisal', Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (Bombay), Vol. 42, No. 1, January-March, pp. 67-75, 1987 (with G. Bhattacharya).

'Changes in level of living in rural West Bengal: Variations across socio-economic groups', Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay),Vol. 23, No.22, May 28, 1988 ( with N. Bhattacharya and A. Rudra).

 

            'Marketable surplus and size-classes of holdings' Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay),Vol. 23, Nos. 52 and 53, December 24-23, 1988 ( with Ipsita Sen.)

 

            'Time trends in level of living in rural India: A critical study of the evidence from large- scale surveys'. In Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists (ed.) By Pranab Bardhan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1989 (with N. Bhattacharya).

 

            ‘Disparities in income and level of living’, Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay),  Vol. 25, No. 15, April 14,1990, (with Robin Mukherjee and Ashok Rudra).

 

            ‘Perceptions of villagers about changes in level of living in West Bengal’, The Administrator , Vol. 35, No. 3, July - September ( Special Issue: Village Study), 1990.

 

‘How do the poor survive?’ , Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay), Vol. 26, NO. 7, February 16, 1991 ( with N. Bhattacharya, P. Chakraborty and A. Rudra).

 

            ‘A new look at the old bottle: A study of land tenure and farm productivity’, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 36, No. 2, April-June, 1993.

 

            ‘Marketing efficiency and marketing channels in a prosperous region of rural West Bengal’, The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 36, No. 3, December, 1995       ( with D. Sarkar).

 

‘Survival strategy of farmers: An ecological explanation from West Bengal farms’, Journal of Human Ecology, Vol. 6, No. 3, July, 1995 (with B. Ghosh).

 

            ‘Fragmentation, marginalization and pauperization - A study on inherittance’, Man and Development, Vol. 17, No.4, December, 1995 ( with S. Mitra).

 

‘Class differentiation and agrarian mobilisation’, in Peasants in Indian History-   I: Theoretical Issues and Structural Enquires, V.K. Thakur and A Aounshuman (eds.) Janaki Prakshan, Patna, 1996. 

 

‘Planning and liberalization in India’, in Planning and Economic Policy in India: Evaluation and Lessons for the Future", M. Chattopadhayay ,P.Maiti and M. Rakshit (eds.), Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1996 (with P. Maiti and M. Rakshit).

 

 

‘Farm size and productivity: A new look at the old debate’, Economic and Political Weekly , (Bombay), Vol. 32, No. 52, December 27, 1997 ( with A. Sengupta).

 

‘Measuring farm efficiency: An application to Indian agriculture’, in Essays on Public Intervention, Institutional Arrangements and Economic Efficiency, M. Chattopadhyay, P. Maiti and M. Rakshit (eds.), K.P. Bagchi and Co., Calcutta, 1999 (with A. Sengupta).

 

‘Tenancy inefficiency: A study based on West Bengal agriculture – Economic and Political Weekly, (Bombay),Vol. 36, Nos. 5 & 6, February 3 – 10, 2001, (with A. Sengupta)

           

            ‘Farm size and sharecropping efficiency: Some theoretical issues’, Keio Economic Studies, Keio Economic Society, Japan, Vol. 38, pp. 65 – 73, 2001 (with A. Sengupta).

 

            ‘Farm size and productive efficiency’, in Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra, Bagchi, A.K.; Chattopadhyay, M. and Khasnabis, R. (eds.), Dasgupta & Co. (P) Ltd., Kolkata, pp. 31 56, 2003.

 

            ‘Role of Government in the development of social aspects of level of living in India’, Man and Development, Centre              for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 49 – 66, 2003.

 

            ‘Agricultural growth and welfare: A study on Indian states’, South Asia Economic Journal, Sage publications, New Delhi, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 103 – 130, 2004, (with A. Sengupta and J.C. Bhattacharya).

 

            ‘Economic condition and nutritional status: A micro level study among tribal population in rural West Bengal, India’, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition Society of Malaysia, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 99 – 109, 2005 (with B. Mandal and R. Gupta).

 

            ‘Efficiency of family versus hired labour in Indian agriculture: Findings from West Bengal’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 49, No. 2, pp. 311 – 320, 2006 (with Managari Bhattacharyay).

 

            ‘Transformations of tenancy contracts in Indian agriculture’, Asian Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 429 – 438, 2006 (with C. Neogi).

 

            ‘Non-frontier profit function: An application to Indian agriculture’, Arthaniti (New Series), Vol. 6, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 17 – 32, 2007 (with M. Pal and A. Sengupta).

             

 

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