डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-8773

• Sir Ratan Tata Post Doctoral Fellow 2010-11, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London
• PhD in Economics (2003), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi  Title of the dissertation: 'Technological Change, Organization of Work and Employment Contracts: Emergence of Decentralized Bargaining in the Indian Textiles'.
• M.Phil in Applied Economics (1999), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi  Title of the dissertation: Labour Market Reallocation in the Era of Trade Liberalization: An Indian Perspective
• MA in Economics (1995), Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal

• Associate Fellow (Lecturer), Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, October, 2001 to May 2006 (Tenured Position).
• Assistant Professor  at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, May 2006 to November 2007 (Tenured Position).
• Associate Professor (Reader) at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad since November 2007 to 2014 (was on EOL from October, 2010 to November, 2014).
• Lecturer, Economics Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, London from Feb 2012 to August, 2014 (Tenured Position). Consultant, World Bank for six months in 2011-12, The World Bank
• Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (tenured position)
• Currently working as a Professor in Development Studies in the School of Development Studies, Dr. B. R Ambedkar University Delhi since December 2016.

Fellow (Visiting and Post Doctoral)

• University of Alberta, Canada
• University of Calgary, Canada
• Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Administrative Positions held

• Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan: 2014 to 2016.
• Dean, School of Development Studies, Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Delhi: 2022 to 2025.
• Chair, Internal Complaint’s Committee, Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Delhi: 2021 to 2022.
   

• Gender and work, Labour market behaviours and institutions, Industrial organisation and  Issues Concerning Indian Industrial Development, Agrarian questions, land, Technology and Possibilities of Organic Farming, Political economy of Development in South Asia

Awards and Honours:

• Reserve Bank of India Endowment Doctoral Fellowship (1998-99) for the period 1998 to 2003. PhD Thesis submitted in October, 2001.
• \University Merit Scholar: Visva-Bharati University: 1993-94
• Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship, 2000, Canada
• IDPAD Visiting Fellowship, The Netherlands under the IDPAD Fellowship Programme in 2005.
• Sir Ratan Tata Post Doctoral Fellowship at the London School of Economics, London, UK, October, 2010 to June 2011.
• A tenured faculty position, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, London, Feb 2012. Got a permanent position in one year. Usually, the probation period is three years.
• Selected to submit research papers from SOAS, University of London for the six yearly nation-wide research evaluation of all universities in the UK in 2014.
• Awarded a full funding to present an Invited  paper related my recent book titled Wives and Widows at Work: Women’s Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now, (2023) in the international Workshop on Challenge of Gender,  by the University of Wuerzburg, Germany in July, 2026.

A Select Papers published in journals

• Labour Market under Trade Liberalization: Issues Concerning Re-allocation', 1999, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, No.48:.M163 - M168.
• ‘Agriculture, Patriarchy and Capitalism’, review of Women Work and Technology by E. Revathi,  2000, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 35, Issue No. 13.
• ‘Work Organization and Employment Contracts: Technological Modernization in Textile Firms’, 2002, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.37, No.8:743 - 749.
• ‘Energy and Labour Use in Industry: A Study of Andhra Pradesh’, 2003, Economic and Political     Weekly, Vol. 38, No. 36: 3801- 3805.
•  ‘Expansion of Markets and Women Workers: A case of Indian Garment Manufacturing’, 2004, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No. 46: 4910-4916.
• ‘Gender Questions in Economics’, Khnoj Ekhon (in Bangla),  2003, September, A biyearly journal on gender studies, published from Calcutta.
•  ‘Women Workers, Entrepreneurs and Behavioral Rationale: A case of Indian garment manufacturing’, 2005, Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Vol.48, No.1:101-113.
• ‘A Text Book and More’, Review of Economics of Business Policy (2004) by D. N. Sengupta and Anindya Sen (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005 Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 40, Issue No. 14.
• ‘Labour Arrangements and Bargaining Outcomes Under different Market Conditions’, 2006, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.49, No.1: 121-131.
• ‘Growing Services: An Intersectoral Analysis of State Level Data’, 2006:Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.41, No. 29:3061-3067.
• ‘Banking on Themselves", Review of We are poor but too Many by Ela Bhat, 2007, Economic and Political Weekly,  Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) Vol 42, No. 03
• ‘Docile Oriental Women and the Organized Labour: A case of an Indian garment export park’, 2008, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 14, No.3: 439-460, Sage Publications, Los Angeles/ London/ New Delhi/ Singapore.
• ‘Skilled Labour Specificity and the Pure Theory of International Trade: An Application to the Indian Information Technology Sector’, 2008, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Vol.5, No. 2: 27-37, Elsevier (with B. Batavia and P. Nandakumar).
• ‘Girl Children in the Care Economy: Domestics in West Bengal’, 2008, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43, No. 48:93-100 (with Ishita Chakravarty).
• ‘Trade Unions and Business Firms: Unorganized manufacturing in West Bengal’, 2010. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 45, No. 6: 45-52.
• ‘“For Bed and Board Only”: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)’ , Modern Asian Studies ,  Cambridge University Press, Vol.47, Issue 2 (March, 2013)) (with Ishita Chakravarty).
• Industry, Labour and the State: Emerging Relations in the Indian State of West Bengal’ , Journal of South Asian Development, Sage Publications, (October, 2011) Vol 6, No. 2.(with Indranil Bose)
• ‘Lack of Economic Opportunities and Persistence of Child Marriage in West Bengal” 2018, Indian Journal of Gender  Studies, Volume 25, Number 2, Sage
• ‘Hidden from the Data: Landholding Patterns and Women’s Low Work Participation Rates’, 2020, WIDER WP No. 34, World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki.
• ‘Loosing Strength? Trade Unions and Neo Liberalism’ (2021), Padmini Swaminathan and Uma Rani (eds.), State Capital Nexus: Implications for Labour, Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics,  Anveshi Research Centre for Women, Hyderabad
• ‘Widowhood Revisited: Nature of Land Holding and Women’s work in Colonial Bengal”, 2022, Indian Economic and Social History Review, LIX, 3, Sage (With Ishita Chakravarty)
• “Covid 19 Pandemic and Poor Women’s Agency”, 2022,  WIDER WP No. 109, World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki. (with Nandini Nayak).
• “Review of Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim.”, 2025, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 32, Issue, 1: 106-109, Sage Publications
• “Does Land Distribution Pattern Influence Indian Women’s Labour Market Behaviour? Revisiting the Debate.” (2025), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 68, Issue, 3: 1-17.Spriger Nature
• “Intra-household discrimination and women’s agency: A case of domestic workers in Delhi during the COVID-19 Pandemic’’(2026),  JOURNAL ON ‘LABOUR’, Vol. 2, Centre for Labour Law Research and Advocacy, National Law University Delhi, Website: www.cllra.com (with Nandini Nayak)

A select chapters published in Books:

• ‘Industry: Policy and Performance’ 2003, in C.H Hanumantha Rao and S. Mahendra Dev (eds.) Andhra Pradesh Development : Economic Reforms and Challenges Ahead, Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Monohar, Hyderabad.
• ‘Nritya Shilpi Jakhon Samaj Bignani’, 2005, (in Bangla) in I. Chakravarty , B. Pain and K. Bandyopadhya (eds.) Naishobdo Bhenge , Stree together with Khnoj Akhon, Kolkata.
• ‘Industrializing West Bengal? A cases of Institutional Stickyness’ (2013) in Kunal Sen and Adrian Leftwich (eds.), State Business Relations in Africa and India, Routledge (with Indranil Bose).
• ‘Girl Children in the Care Economy: Domestics in West Bengal’, (reprint) (2012) in Padmini Swaminathan (ed.), Women and Work essays from Economic and Political Weekly, Orient Black Swan (with Ishita Chakravarty).
• ‘Schooling, Work and Early Marriage: Girl Children in Contemporary Bengal’ 2021, Chapter 5 in Samita Sen and Anindidita Ghosh (eds.) Love, Labour and Law: Early and Child Marriage in India, Stree- Sage.
• ‘“When “Ramu Kakas” Left :Women and Girl Children Domestic Workers of Kolkata, 1981- 2010’ , 2020, in Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora (eds.)  Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination (vol. 2), Primus Books, New Delhi. (with Ishita Chakravarty)
• ‘The Covid 19 Pandemic and Intra Household Bargaining’ 2024, in Martha Chen, Michael Rogan and Kunal Sen (eds.) Covid 19 and the Informal Economy: Impact, Recovery and the Future, Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.(With Nandini Nayak)

Published Books (authored):

• Expansion of Markets and Women Workers in India: A Case Study of Selected Garment Manufacturing Firms in Andhra Pradesh (2011), LAP Lambert Academic Publishers, Germany.
• Women, Labour and the Economy in India: From Migrant Male Servants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids. (2015) , (2016 paperback edition) (coauthored with Ishita Chakravarty), Routledge, London, New York.
• Wives and Widows at Work: Women’s Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now, (2023) (coauthored with Ishita Chakravarty), Orient Black Swan, Hyderabad, India.
• Banglar Meyeder Kaj, Bibaho O Baidhabya: Desh Behanger Age Pore (in Bangla) ( Women’s Work, Marriage and Widowhood in Bengal: Before and after Partition), 2024, Ashadeep Publications, Kolkata (Coauthored with Ishita Chakravarty)

Major Conferences and Seminars attended in last two years

• Invited (fully funded by the organizers) to present a paper titled “Does Land Distribution Pattern Influence Indian Women’s Labour Market Behaviour? Revisiting the Debate.”I n a national conference organised by Indian Society of Labou Economics and Rajiv Gandhi University, in Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, 2nd and 3rd September, 2024
• Presented (fully funded by the organizers) a paper titled ‘Femization of an Unsustainable Agriculture Rising Work Participation of Women in India” coauthored with Partha Saha organized by the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, in New Delhi during 18 to 20 March, 2026
• Invited (fully funded by the organizers) to present a paper titled “Aging Widows, Increasing Vulnerabilities:   Coping Strategies in rural West Bengal, India” in an International Workshop titled “Challenge of Gender” organized by ICAS and University of Wuerzburg, Germany, in Wuerzburg, Germany, July, 1st and 2nd, 2026.

Major Projects handled:

• ‘Expansion of markets and women workers: a case of garment manufacturing’, Principal Investigator, funded by UNIFEM, UNDP, report submitted in July 2003.
• Conducted a State-level workshop on ‘Strategies for Economic Empowerment of Women in Andhra Pradesh’, Centre for Economic and Social Studies,  funded by the Indian National Commission for Women, report submitted in January 2004.
• ‘Quality of Employment and Organization of Work in the Indian IT industry’,  Principal Investigator, Funded by UR23 of the IRD, IFREDE, France under the framework of the study ‘Decentralized industrialization and Political Industrialization in India’.  Report submitted in April, 2006.
• ‘State and Business Relations in Africa and India’: Principal Investigator for West Bengal chapter and jointly coordinated the work in Orissa”, Under IPPG, University of Manchester, funded by the DFID, UK, report submitted in November, 2009. 
• Conducted a national workshop on ‘the future directions of research and teaching in Women’s Studies in India’, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, August 6 and 7, 2015.
• In the Administrative Committee of the Project ‘Love, Law and Labour: Child Marriage in West Bengal, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, India funded by AJWS.