India

Gathering the Vanishing History of Punjab and South Asia Through Crowdsourced Lived Memories by Guneeta Bhalla

Spring 2021 Abstract The 1947 Partition Archive is a crowdsourced oral history repository that trains and empowerscitizens to document life stories of those who witnessed the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.The novel methods for oral history documentation used by The 1947 Partition Archive aim todemocratize the telling of history by exploiting modern communication … Read more

Farm Laws versus Field Realities: Understanding India’s Agricultural Markets by Shoumitro Chatterjee, Mekhala Krishnamurthy

Spring 2021 Abstract This paper evaluates the actual state of agricultural markets and existing agricultural marketregulation in India. It contrasts this with the design of the new “farm laws,” and argues thatthose reforms may be misdirected in many respects. The paper makes a case for betterunderstanding of intermediation, the need for several kinds of public … Read more