• Peasant Economy and Society

• Caste and Social Stratification

• Rural – Urban Linkages

• Sociology of Development

Ph. D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

M. A., (Sociology: Bangalore University)

Books

• "Rejuvenating the Tanks: A socio-ecological approach" (Co-author with K V Raju, M J Bhende, D Rajasekar and K G Gayathri Devi), Bangalore, Books for Change, 2003.

• "Challenging Untouchability: Dalit Initiatives and Experiences from Karnataka, South India", (Editor, with S.R. Charsley) Sage Publications, 1998.

• "Surviving Droughts", Bombay: Himalaya, 1995.

• "Change and Continuity in Agrarian Relations", New Delhi: Concept, 1995.

• "Rural Youth: A Sociological Study of a Karnataka Village", New Delhi: Concept, 1981.

Articles

• Researchers in Dialogue with Local Knowledge Systems – Reflections on Mutual Learning and Empowerment, in Flury, Manuel and Urs Geiser (Eds.) Local Environmental Management in a North-South Perspective: Issues of Participation and Knowledge Management. Zurich: v/d/f IOS Press. Pp. 225-274. [Co-authors: R. Baumgartner, G. S. Aurora and V. Ramaswamy.], 2002.

• Mutual Exchange Labour in a Changing Rural Economy, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 2. Pp. 217-42, 2002.

• Economics and Sociology – Staying on or Merging the Borders? Refelections on the Sociology-side of the boundary in Lele, Shachandra., Gopal Kadekodi and Bina Agarwal (Eds.) Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research: Concepts, Barriers and Possibilities. [Proceedings of the Workshop on Methodological Issues in Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment, held at Centre for Interdisciplianry Studies in Environment and Development, ISEC, Bangalore, Junly 21- 23, 2001). Delhi, Indian Society for Ecological Economics, 2002.

• The Pace of Social and Economic Change in the Indian Republic since Independence: The Question of Poverty (With R. S. Deshpande), A Background Paper prepared on invitation from the Commission for Review of Constitution of India. Bangalore: Institute for Social and Economic Change, and New Delhi: The Constitution Review Commission, 2000.

• From 'Marey' to Market: Changing Faces of Rural Livelihood System. ETH-NADEL, Zurich and ISEC, Bangalore. (Co-author: V. Ramaswamy), 2000.

• Emerging Rural Leadership and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Evidence from two South Indian Villages. ISEC, Bangalore and ETH-NADEL, Zurich. (Co-author with V. Ramaswamy, R. Baumgartner and R. Hogger), 2000.

• The Threshing Floor Disappears: Rural Livelihood System in Transition. ETH-NADEL, Zurich and ISEC, Bangalore. (Co-author with V. Ramaswamy and Ruedi Hogger), 2000.

• Participatory Research on Rural Livelihood: Sharing Research Findings for Local Empowerment? ETH-NADEL, Zurich. (Co-author with Ruedi Baumgartner, G. S Aurora, and V. Ramaswamy), 2000.

• Does Replication Mean Consensus? Culture and Institutions among 'Untouchable Scheduled Castes in Karnataka. Working Paper 56. Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2000.

• ‘Caste: After fifty years of Independence’ Review of Development and Change, Vol. 2 No. 1., 1998.

• `Caste in Contemporary Rural India’, in M.N.Srinivas (Ed.) Caste: Its Twentieth Century Avatar, New Delhi: Penguin, 1996.

• `Formal Cooperatives and Informal Cooperation’ in D.W.Attwood and B.S. Baviskar (Eds.) Finding the Middle Path: Political Economy of Cooperatives and Rural Development in India, Westview Press, and New Delhi: Sage, 1996.

• `Farmers Survival Strategies in Drought Prone Areas’, Agricultural Situation in India. March 1993.

• `Privatization of Common Property Resources: Lessons from Experience’, Economic and Political Weekly. XXVII, Nos. 31and 32. 1992.

• `New Technology and Traditional Rural Institutions’ Economic and Political Weekly, XXII, No.51. 1987.

• `Rural Students in an Urban Setting’, Indian Journal of Social Work, (XLVII. No.4) Co-author R. Sivaprasad, 1987.