Announcements

The Second NRAS Policy Conference titled “Beyond Productivity and Populism: Reimagining India’s Agricultural and Rural Policies” would be held during 26-28th Septermber 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Conference...

NRAS Mentoring Initiative 2019

Apr 18, 2019

News and Discussion

Why India’s Oppressed Lack a United Voice

Aug 6, 2018

While Patidars and Jats have joined together to fight for the alleviation of their economic distress, the middle and lower castes remain scattered and largely invisible. Article...

5th Annual Conference of NRAS concludes at NCDS, Bhubaneshwar

Nov 14, 2017
Prof. C. Shambu Prasad wins Oikos Case Writing Competition 2017

Jul 26, 2017

Welcome to the website of the NRAS! The NRAS was established in 2010, motivated by the twin objectives of (a) reinvigorating the study of agrarian and rural issues in India’s academic institutions and enabling scholars to engage with a range of pressing issues and ideas (b) influencing the pedagogy and curriculum of academic institutions to encompass rural and agrarian issues. This website aims to serve as a hub for communication, interaction, and exchange for network members. We invite you to become part of this network and contribute to our collective effort. Read more

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Working Papers

Runaways

by arvasavi | Aug 5, 2018 |

Running away: an act that defies religious, caste, community, and family norms of sociality, sexuality and marriage. Runaways: the new social category of persons that represents new youth rebels, their search for self and individual identities, a social category of persons who are often not treated as persons. Now a regular feature of rural life, girls and boys run away to be together, to be married, to be companions. And, in this act, they trigger consequences unanticipated by them and their families and manifesting in full bloom the inbuilt caste hostilities, intolerance and lack of sensitivity of Indian society.