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Suicides and the making of India's agrarian distress by Vasavi, A.R.

“…Reviewing data from five states of India, where suicides by agriculturists reached epidemic levels, this paper provides a sociological commentary to the issue…”
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Pluralising the sociology of India by Vasavi, A.R.

“…Focusing on the gaps in the practice, methodologies, pedagogies, and texts related to the ‘Sociology of India’, this article locates key problems in the…”
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New Imperatives for Elementary Education by Vasavi, A.R.

“…It is not enough to cite near universal access to elementary education or point to the successful passage of the Fundamental Right to Education Amendment…”
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Poor Women as Economic Agents: The Neo-Liberal State and Gender in India and the US by Vasavi, A.R., Kingfisher, Catherine P.

“…Drawing on neo-liberal economic norms, India and the US are increasingly marking and constituting women in poverty as new economic agents. Though based in…”
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Book Review: Parimala V. Rao, ed. 2014. New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education by Vasavi, A.R.

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Book Review: Those Who Did Not Die: Impact of the Agrarian Crisis on Women in Punjab by Vasavi, A.R.

“…Ranjana Padhi, Those Who Did Not Die: Impact of the Agrarian Crisis on Women in Punjab. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2012. 228 pages. ₹ 650…”
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'Hybrid Times, Hybrid People': Culture and Agriculture in South India by Vasavi, A. R.

“…Local agricultural practices in the semi-arid district of Bijapur (Karnataka State, India) are based on precepts that recognize the ecological specificity of…”
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'Science in Society: A New Social Contract'—A Report on the Bangalore Symposium by Ramachandran, R., Vasavi, A.R., Sinha, Anindya, Narasimha, R.

“…Proceedings of the 1999 Science in Society symposium, a meeting held by developing countries to agree to recommendations for the June 1999 World Conference on…”
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SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: Global Labor and Asian Culture by Richard Foltz, Morris Rossabi, Vasudha Narayanan, Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf, Carol Upadhya, A.R. Vasavi

“…Like the Middle East, South Asia has been at the crossroads of civilizations over the centuries. Outsiders came from the West, transforming Indian culture and…”
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Book reviews and notices : VANDANA MADAN, ed., The village in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. x + 477 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, index. Rs 650 (hardback) by Vasavi, A.R.

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Book reviews and notices : RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Savaging the civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals and India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 398 pp. Plates, notes, refer ences, appendices, index. Rs. 595 (hardback) by Vasavi, A.R.

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Book reviews and notices : R.J. FISHER, If rain doesn't come: An anthropological study of drought and human ecology in western Rajasthan. Australia/Delhi: Sydney Studies/Manohar, 1997. xviii + 234 pp. Maps, figs., tables, notes, appendix, bibliogr., Rs 400 (hardback) by Vasavi, A.R.

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Local environment and lived experience: The mountain women of Himachal Pradesh (Livelihood and environment - 6) by Vasavi, A.R.

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Book Reviews and Notices by Saberwal, Satish, Banerjee, Anirban, Kumar, Pushpesh, Chacko, Pariyaram M., Bhat, Vighnesh N., Vasavi, A.R., Ganguly, Ramanuj, Mahajan, Gurpreet, Bose, Pradip Kumar, Sinha, A.C., Somashekharappa, C.A., Gupta, Dipankar, Bairy, T.S. Ramesh, Desai, Neera, Jain, Shobhita, D., Renjini, Singh, Santosh Kumar, Sooryamoorthy, R., Jogdand, P.G., Mathur, Nita, Raj, Aditya, Bhattacharjee, Nabanipa, Vivek, P.S., Balagopalan, Sarada, Sujatha, V., Pandey, Vikash N., Menon, Vineetha, Pathak, Avijit, Chaudhuri, Maitrayee, Jairath, Vinod K., Hegde, Sasheej, Saha, Suhrita, Sabbarwal, Sherry

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