- Labour Migration
- Livelihoods
- Agricultural practices
- Agrarian modernisation
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- Labour migration and questions of development in India. My research explores the unrecognized contribution of labour migration to India’s industrial and economic advancement, looking at the social and historical conditions in which migration becomes a livelihood choice and its complex and contradictory impacts upon the lives of migrant workers.
- Agrarian modernization and social change. I examine at the transformations that ensue when tribal communities adopt modern agrarian practices - such as the use of genetically modified seeds - in their cultivation patterns.
- Political economy of colonialism in India. Taking a critical perspective on colonial modernization, I have studied the processes of the establishment of the first railway network in 19th century India.
- 2009-2010, Nesar Ahmed Memorial Scholarship, under the aegis of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, Binghamton University, New York
- 2009, International Student and Scholar Offices Grant-in-aid Award for a non-US student Binghamton University, New York
- 2007, Dissertation Year Fellowship Award, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York
- 2007, Spring Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Binghamton University, New York
- 2005, Independent Fellowship awarded by the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi and SARAI, New Delhi, to carry out research work on the history of railways in India.
- “Labor Migration, Agrarian crises and Livelihood transformations in the making of a world city: Bangalore in critical perspective” in Denis O'Hearn and Paul S. Ciccantell (eds.) 2021. Migration, Racism and Labour Exploitation in the World-System. New York: Routledge.
- “How Turmeric became tribal south Rajasthan’s ‘saviour spice’
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/how-turmeric-became-tribal-south-rajasthan-s-saviour-spice--69232. Published in Down To Earth. February 10, 2020 - Op-ed: Will COVID-19 teach us to respect and value labour more?
https://citizenmatters.in/op-ed-will-covid-19-teach-us-to-respect-and-value-labour-more-17826
Published in Citizen Matters, April 28, 2020 - “Potato Chips and Child Exploitation: A Story of Innocence Lost in Labour” https://thewire.in/labour/potato-chips-farming-gujarat-child-labour-exploitation. Published in The Wire, July 4, 2019
- E-mail id: vandana.s@srmap.edu.in