Centre for Development Practice and Research, Patna

Publications

Occasional papers:

• Public Arguments - 1: "They must have to go therefore, elsewhere": Mapping the Many Displacements of Bengali Hindu Refugees from East Pakistan, 1947 to 1960s [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 2: Folksongs as an Epistemic Resource: Understanding Bhojpuri Women's Articulations of Migration [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 3: Fluid Futures Migrant Fluid Labour Futures and Trafficked Lives in Millennial Siliguri [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 4: “Dilli Door Hai" Migrant Labour in Manufacturing in the Megacity [ Download ]
  
• Public Arguments - 5: Ecological Changes and Underdevelopment of North-Eastern Bihar in Historical Perspective [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 6: Migrations and India's Future Development Trajectory [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 7: Gender and Migration: A Postcolonial View [ Downloads ]
• Public Arguments - 8: The Liminal Space of Dalit Muslims [ Downloads ]
• Public Arguments - 9: The Plantation Labour and the Performance of Identity: Categorical Oppression in the South Indian Tea Belt [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 10: The Colliery Town and Labour Migration: An enquiry into the modern-industrial reproduction arrangement in an Indian coalfield, 1895-1970 [Download ]
• Public Arguments - 11: From Calcutta comes my husband, from Darbhanga he comes....: Some Reflections on Culture, Memory and Migration [ Download ]
• Public Arguments - 12: The Postcolonial and the Postsocialist: Dialogues, Opacities, and "Deep Coalitions" [Download]
• Sarvajanik Bahas 1: प्रवसन की लॊकसंस्कृति में स्त्री की छवी [ Download ]
• Sarvajanik Bahas 2: उन्नीसवी सदी के उत्तरार्ध और बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्ध के इतिहास का अध्ययन क्यों जरुरी है? [ Download ]

Working Papers:

• Working Paper - 1: Male Out-migration and Women in Rural Bihar: A Socio-legal Study [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 2: Migrants, Smugglers, Traders, and Treacherous Rivers: A Genealogy of Bihar-Nepal Border from Treaty of Sugauli to c. 1947 [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 3: Fringe Lives: A Study of a Slum in Patna [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 4: Education, Patriarchy, Gendering and Resistance: A Case Study of Adolescent Girls at KGBV, Ranipur [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 5: Fieldnotes on Caste Practices among Muslims of Nohsa Panchayat [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 6: The Interrupted Becoming of a City: Patna in the Census [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 7: Dirty Tracks across Border: Global Operations of Extraction, Labour, and Migration at a Railway Station on Bihar-Nepal Border [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 8: Tempering Patriarchy and Reinventing Gender: Impact of Male Outflow on Women in rural Bihar [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 9: Agrarian Transition and Migration in a Village of Bihar [ Download ]
• Working Paper - 10: पंचायती, जाति और न्याय [Download]

Hetukar Jha Memorial Lecture

1. Migration And Indian Experiences: The Historical Context by Prof. Ratneshwar Mishra [Download]

2. The Unwanted Aspect: Normative Fetish and Epistemological Deceit by Prof. Savyasaachi [Download]

3. Temporal Rhythms in Village Life: Stories of Abundance and Lack in Purulia, West Bengal [Download]

 Policy Briefs

1. Draft Policy Framework for Improving the Conditions of Labour Migrants from Bihar (in English) [ Download ]
2. Draft Policy Framework for Improving the Conditions of Labour Migrants from Bihar (in Hindi) [Download]

 Activity Reports

Academic Writing Workshop for PhD Scholars

• December 14th -15th, 2016 [Download Report]
• Second Orientation Course on Migration (contact part, Feb. 17-27, 2018) [Download Report]

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