Santanu Rakshit

@visvabharati.ac.in

Professor
Visva-Bharati

https://researchid.co/munsantanu

EDUCATION

MSc and PhD in Economics

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Multidisciplinary, Development, Human Factors and Ergonomics

Scopus Publications

Scholar Citations

Scholar h-index

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Scopus Publications

Stressed commerce and accumulation process: A farm-level study of agrarian transition in West Bengal
B. Mohanty
Routledge India

Revisiting environmental concern: The role of the United Nations in development management
Santanu Rakshit
University of Arizona
The intervention of global capital through primitive accumulation is causing immense economic and ecological suffering, particularly among the poorer areas of the less-developed world. The United Nations has taken various actions in the less-developed regions of the world to deal with these concerns and at the same time to obtain a balance between the environment and the market or capital. This article explores the role of UN in administering the resulting environmental crisis through a process of 'development management' which is more about consolidating 'governmentality' in the developing world than reaching a solution to the poverty and environmental destruction driven by capital. Key Words: neoliberal capital; governmentality; primitive accumulation; environmental concern; development management; United Nations

Output, surpluses and 'stressed commerce': A study on farm viability and agrarian transition in West Bengal, India, in the new millennium
Santanu Rakshit
Informa UK Limited
This paper intends to evaluate at the farm level, in the current millennium, the nature of surpluses and the emerging exchange processes in agrarian West Bengal through the lenses of socio-economic class differentiation. The paper concentrates on the structure and pattern of gross value added, farm labour and farm-disposable surplus that accrue to the peasants along with their repercussions on farm viability. Finally, it addresses the consequences of stressed commerce (carried out through price shocks) on the ratio of retention of surplus at the farm level as a larger question of farm viability, agrarian transition and conflicts. The study emphasises the region with higher capitalistic1 development. The change in this region is found to be more significant in the context of agrarian transition. The same analysis is also followed for the more backward region, but just to put forward the distinction between the processes working in the two regions.

Capital intensification, productivity and exchange - A class-based analysis of agriculture in West Bengal in the current millennium
SANTANU RAKSHIT
Wiley
This paper deals with capitalist agricultural development in West Bengal, India. Based on a field study of two regions at different ends of the development spectrum, it shows the class-specific nature of agrarian development. Farms based on hired labour adopt more capital-intensive techniques, operate on a much larger scale and have higher yields in comparison to farms based on family labour, regardless of their size. Differentiation of the peasantry is intense where the adoption of capital-intensive technology is high. The paper concludes that the arguments of A.V. Chayanov and A.K. Sen, which seek to explain the inverse relation between farm size and productivity in terms of the superior efficiency of farms based on family labour compared to capitalist farms, are not borne out by our findings. Moreover, in the advanced region of Bardhaman, farmers of all economic classes are found to be subject to a form of compulsive exchange or stressed commerce brought about by traders external to the region.

'Agrarian transition'-diversity in nature, notion and observations-A survey of theoretical expositions and empirical studies with reference to India and West Bengal
Santanu Rakshit
Elsevier BV

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Stressed Commerce and accumulation process: a farm-level study of agrarian transition in West Bengal
S Rakshit, ROUTLEDGE-NEWYORK
Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition: India in the global debate 2016

Revisiting environmental concern: the role of the United Nations in development management
S Rakshit
Journal of Political Ecology, University of Arizona 22 (1), 199-210 2015

Development Paradigm of Inclusive Growth: A Structural Impossibility in Agrarian India
S Rakshit
Economic Development Through Financial Inclusion-> Edited by Abani Tripathy 2015

Output, surpluses and ‘stressed commerce’: a study on farm viability and agrarian transition in West Bengal, India, in the new millennium
S Rakshit
Journal of Peasant Studies, Taylor and Francis 41 (3), 343-363 2014

‘Rural Development: Emerging Challenges in the New Millennium’
S Rakshit, Abhijeet-NewDelhi
2014

Introduction: Concerns of Rural Development: Return of the State, Neo-liberalism and the question of Productive sustainability
S Rakshit, ABHIJEET-NewDelhi
Rural Development: Emerging Challenges in the New Millennium-edited by Dr 2014

Peasant Families and Workforce Structure: A gender based study of Agrarian West Bengal in the Current Millenium
S Rakshit, NSOU, ISBN-978-93-82112-12-9
Gender Sensitisation, Women Empowerment and Distance Education: History 2014

Return of the state: End of Neo-Liberalism? An Inquiry into the Indian Governmentality
S Rakshit, Aakar-NewDelhi
Neo-Liberal State and its challenges--editor-Bhupen sarmah and Joydeep 2014

Neo-liberalism and Indian Economy –A discursive study
S Rakshit
Nrttva-The Anthropology, Jun 2013 3 (4), 42-52 2013

Neoliberalism and the Agrarian Question
S Rakshit
Development at Crossroads; RAJA PEARY MOHAN COLLEGE, INDIA in collaboration 2012

Capital Intensification, Productivity and Exchange–A Class‐Based Analysis of Agriculture in West Bengal in the Current Millennium
S Rakshit
Journal of Agrarian Change, Wiley-Blackwell 11 (4), 505-535 2011

Agrarian Changes in Post Liberalization Period: A Case Study in West Bengal
S Rakshit
JIS-Management Vista 5 (1) 2011

Output, Surplus and Poverty vis--vis Stressed Commerce-A farm level study of Agrarian West Bengal
S Rakshit
Max Plank Institute of Economics, Jena, West Germany,Technology 2011

IMMISERISATION AND POVERTY-A TALE OF TWO VILLAGES IN BIRBHUM DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL
S Rakshit, M Roy
Nrttva-The Anthropology, Jun 2011 2011

‘Agrarian transition’-diversity in nature, notion and observations—A survey of theoretical expositions and empirical studies with reference to India and West Bengal
S Rakshit
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Elsevier 28 (4), 465-481 2010

Consumption of Food grain and Calorie Deprivation in Rural West Bengal: A Case study of Two Villages in Birbhum District-2010’
S Rakshit, P Roy
Journal of Social Welfare and Development 1 (1) 2010

A Gender based study of Agrarian Workforce Structure in West Bengal in the Current Millennium
S Rakshit
York University, Toronto, Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research 2010

Social Caste, Economic Class and Reservation–A case study in West Bengal
S Rakshit
PCK-Bulletin, 2010 2010

GAME THEORY--A THEORY OF CONTRADICTION!!
S RAKSHIT
IMAGES--Journal of Womens Christian College 2005

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Revisiting environmental concern: the role of the United Nations in development management
S Rakshit
Journal of Political Ecology, University of Arizona 22 (1), 199-210 2015
Citations: 2

Consumption of Food grain and Calorie Deprivation in Rural West Bengal: A Case study of Two Villages in Birbhum District-2010’
S Rakshit, P Roy
Journal of Social Welfare and Development 1 (1) 2010
Citations: 1