Vandana UpadhyayRajiv Gandhi University · Department of Economics
Vandana Upadhyay
Doctor of Philosophy
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A pertinent question that remains unaddressed in literature is that ‘what reflects socio-economic status (SES) and what determines it?’ This is because in some studies income, education, consumption expenditure, health status etc. have been used as proxy indicators of SES, whereas, there are some other studies which consider these as the determinan...
While the mountainous frontier regions of Arunachal have generated a literature celebrating their exceptional social diversity, less is known about Arunachal's rural political economy. Following village fieldwork in 2007 in northern districts, research in 2015 in East and South‐east Arunachal enables two aspects of agrarian transformation to be exp...
This chapter investigates the transformation of land rights and changing gender distribution of work and employment in rural Arunachal Pradesh. Using a two-period time-use survey data, it is argued that in the backdrop of commercialisation of agriculture and development of informal private property rights over agricultural land, women farmers are i...
The human developments scenario in northeast India presents a diverse picture across various states and also across different human development indicators. Although the performance of north-eastern states on the human development front is far from satisfactory, there are few states which have attained significant improvements in educational attainm...
Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experience in the northeastern region in India in relation to the processes of globalisation and liberalisation of the economy. Bringing together researchers and scholars, from both within and outside the regi...
Man and Society, Volume 12, No.4, 2015, PP. 18-40.ISSN 2229-4058.
‘Unsettled Lives, Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure and Debt Among Migrant Workers in Arunachal Pradesh, India’, Labour and Development, Volume 20, No.2, 2013, PP. 142-168. ISSN 0973-0419.
‘The Employment-Unemployment Situation in Arunachal Pradesh: Implications for Policy’, Indian Journal of Regional Science’, Volume 45, No. 1, 2012, PP. 24-32. ISSN 0046-9017.
The interrelationship between economic development and gender relations has been found to be multidimensional and complex. This article attempts to analyse the changing gender relations in Arunachal Pradesh, a state that has seen rapid economic transformation in the past few decades, on the basis of women’s relative position in a few socioeconomic...
As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 199...
‘Environmental Degradation and Gender Relations in North East India: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh’, Journal of Economic and Social Development’, Volume 7, No. 2, 2011, pp. 25-47.
During the post-liberalization period the Indian tea industry has been facing a severe crisis. This study looks at the question of inter-generational occupational mobility among tea garden labour in Assam, against the backdrop of, on the one hand, a fall in tea auction prices, decline in exports, and closure and abandonment of tea gardens; and on t...
This paper contributes a preliminary analysis of the process of agrarian capitalist transition in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the least studied regions of India. Primarily based on information collected through a field survey in eleven villages, the paper seeks to explain the nature and implications of institutional unevenness in the development of c...
This paper contributes a preliminary analysis of the process of capitalist transformation in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the least studied regions of India. Primarily based on information collected through a field survey in eleven villages, the paper seeks to explain the nature and implications of institutional unevenness in the development of capita...
This paper attempts to analyse the trends in production and employment in the tea sector in Assam at a disaggregated level. While much of the discussion on the impact of globalisation on tea sector revolves around trends in tea auction prices and exports, the present study looks at the post-reform changes in production and labour use in the tea pro...
‘Ethnic Polarisation and Human Security: The case of Migrants in Northeast India’, World Affairs, Volume 12, No. 1, 2008, PP. 152-174. ISSN 0971-8052.
With increasing appreciation of the role of institutional factors in the process of economic development, there has been a greater realisation of the significance of democratic and humane governance for equitable and sustainable development. India's northeastern region is not only one of the least developed but also one of the most ill-governed par...
After outlining the emerging features of the micro-enterprises in the state of Arunachal Pradesh mainly based on the data from various secondary sources, this paper proceeds to present the main features of the micro enterprise units covered in the primary survey, carried out by the authors, of 180 enterprises in Arunachal Pradesh along with a discu...