BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:493abda964edebf6bd0da31efe5807f7 CATEGORIES:Seminars & Workshops CREATED:20211120T121116 SUMMARY:Rural Sociology Workshop on "Identifying Socio-Economic Classes in Indian Countryside: Evidence from the Village Studies" - by Arindam Das LOCATION:- Ramanujan 101 DESCRIPTION:About the workshop\nThe workshop is aimed at discussing the socio-economic structure of rural India, the methodology of identifying various socio-econ omic classes and evidence from several village studies. It will start with discussing the limitations of the official sources of data in attempting th e above and how these data sources use land size holding as a proxy for soc io-economic classes. The workshop will highlight certain factors such as- c ontrol over means of production, relative use of family and hired labour, a sset holdings, the surplus a household is able to generate within the refer ence period is important for determining these classes and the need for tho rough data collection through village studies.\nThe workshop will use a uni que village-level dataset created in the last one and half decade under the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI) through surveys across diver se agro-ecological zones. With the help of this dataset, two aspects will b e addressed, firstly, the idea of differentiation in the countryside, and s econdly, a detailed discussion on the method of classifying households in t o different socio-economic classes such as- landlords, capitalist farmers, peasants, manual workers and others.\n \nAbout the Resource Person\nArindam Das is Joint Director of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), Bengal uru. The Foundation’s major objectives are to facilitate and sponsor multi- disciplinary theoretical and empirical inquiry in the field of agrarian stu dies in India and elsewhere in less-developed countries.\nArindam Das has b een associated with the village-studies for almost last 10 years and curren tly heads the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI). He is also pur suing his doctorate currently at the BITS, Hyderabad campus.\nArindam works with household-level primary data as well as macro-level secondary data. H e has collaborated with national and international scholars for various res earch projects and has published a number of book chapters and journal arti cles.\nHis areas of interests involve socio-economic classes, rural incomes , wages, labour, rural farm and non-farm employment, cultivation cost and p rices, cropping pattern, and productivity.\nStudents who want to participat e in the workshop must register themselves by sending an e-mail to Professo r Shamsher Singh at This email address is being protected from spambots. Yo u need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 11, 2019,  5 p.m.\nOnly li mited seats are available.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

About the workshop

The workshop is aimed at discussing the socio-economic structure of rural India , the methodology of identifying various socio-economic classes and evidenc e from several village studies. It will start with discussing the limitatio ns of the official sources of data in attempting the above and how these da ta sources use land size holding as a proxy for socio-economic classes. The workshop will highlight certain factors such as- control over means of pro duction, relative use of family and hired labour, asset holdings, the surpl us a household is able to generate within the reference period is important for determining these classes and the need for thorough data collection th rough village studies.

The workshop will use a unique village-level d ataset created in the last one and half decade under the Project on Agraria n Relations in India (PARI) through surveys across diverse agro-ecological zones. With the help of this dataset, two aspects will be addressed, firstl y, the idea of differentiation in the countryside, and secondly, a detailed discussion on the method of classifying households in to different socio-e conomic classes such as- landlords, capitalist farmers, peasants, manual wo rkers and others.

 

About the Resource Person

Arindam Das is Joint Director of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), Bengaluru. The Found ation’s major objectives are to facilitate and sponsor multi-disciplinary t heoretical and empirical inquiry in the field of agrarian studies in India and elsewhere in less-developed countries.

Arindam Das has been associated with the village-studies for almost last 10 years and currently heads the Project on Agraria n Relations in India (PARI). He is also pursuing his doctorate currently at the BITS, Hyderabad campus.

Arindam works with household-level primary data as well as macro-level secondary data. He has collaborated with national and international scholars for various rese arch projects and has published a number of book chapters and journal artic les.

His areas of interests involve socio-e conomic classes, rural incomes, wages, labour, rural farm and non-farm empl oyment, cultivation cost and prices, cropping pat tern, and productivity.

Students who want to participate in the workshop must regis ter themselves by sending an e-mail to Professor Shamsher Singh at < span lang="EN-US">This email ad dress is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 11, 2019,  5 p.m.

Only limited seats are available.

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