Teaching
Courses
Education
- PhD (School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
- M.Phil (School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
- MA Social Work (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
- BA.Hons. History (Miranda House College, University of Delhi)
Profile
Ranjini Basu is the Garware Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), New Delhi. She was the Spring 2024 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. Her present research project is on ‘Contemporary Agrarian Mobilizations and Ecological Issues in Rural North India’. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Over the past decade, she has been part of various village study projects across India. She co-edited the book, Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura: A Study of Agrarian Relations (Tulika Books, 2019). Previously, working as an agricultural policy researcher, she interacted and worked closely with peasant organizations and participated in international processes of food governance at the United Nations-Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Her writings have appeared in journals, books, blogs, policy briefs, and media outlets.
Research interests
Agrarian Studies, Political Economy, Agricultural Policy, Rural & Ecological Transitions, Peasant Movements, Food Governance
Publications
Books
- Swaminathan, Madhura and Basu, Ranjini (eds.) (2019), Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura, Tulika Books, New Delhi
Book Chapters
- Basu, Ranjini (2021), “The Impact of Land Reforms on the Ownership and Distribution of Land: A Study of Three Villages in West Bengal”, in Bakshi, Aparajita and Modak, Tapas Singh (ed.) Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in West Bengal, Tulika Books.
- Basu, Ranjini (2019), “Features of Asset Ownership in the Three Study Villages” in Swaminathan and Basu (eds.) opcit.
- Basu, Ranjini, Dutta, Ritam, Modak, Tapas, Patra, Subhajit and Das, Arindam (2019), “Agrarian Structure, Production and Agrarian Relations in Mainama” in Swaminathan and Basu (eds.) opcit.
- Basu, Ranjini, Dutta, Ritam, Patra, Subhajit and Das, Arindam (2019), “Agrarian Structure, Production and Agrarian Relations in Khakchang” in Swaminathan and Basu (eds.) opcit
Journal Articles
- Basu, Ranjini (2015), “Land Tenures in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal: A Study of Kalmandasguri Village”, Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 5, no.1, ISSN 2248-9002.
- Basu, Ranjini (2023), “Character of the Indian Farmers’ Movement”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 58, no.34, pp 32-34
Working Papers
- Basu, Ranjini (2024), Changing Correlations in Foodgrain Mandis of Punjab, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India.
- Basu, Ranjini (2023), We Feed the Nation: Taking Stock of Punjab’s Contribution to Public Foodgrain Procurement, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India.
- Basu, Ranjini (2023), Fraught with Contestations: Crop Diversification Under Agrarian Distress in Indian Punjab, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India.
Policy Briefs
- Basu, Ranjini (2022), India in the Present Global Food Crisis: A Myopic Approach towards Public Stockholding of Foodgrains, in ‘The Global Food Crisis, This Time’, Focus on the Global South.
- Basu, Ranjini and Guttal, Shalmali (2022), Agricultural Negotiations at WTO MC12: No Real Solutions in Sight, Focus on the Global South.
- Basu, Ranjini (2021), Farm Workers During COVID: Biggest Casualty of Neoliberal Food Systems, Focus on the Global South in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
- Basu, Ranjini (2020), Migrant Agricultural Workers in India and the COVID- 19 Lockdown, Focus on the Global South COVID Bulletin, May 7.
Selected Media
- Basu, Ranjini (2021), The Threat of Corporate Interest is a Key Unifying Factor in the Farmer Protests, The Wire, January 21.
- Basu, Ranjini (2021), Long March to Peasant Unity, Frontline Magazine, January 1.
- Basu, Ranjini and Jitendra (2015), Who dropped MESA?, In-depth story, Down to Earth Magazine, June 7.