Review of Agrarian Studies is the online-first, peer-reviewed journal of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies.
The journal invites and carries articles on agrarian studies – on the forces and relations of production in agriculture and in rural areas, on living standards, and on different aspects of social formations in the countryside. To submit an article, please review our author guidelines at http://www.ras.org.in/index.php?id=AuthorGuidelines.
21/05/2026
Oshikawa Noriaki writes on the life and work of Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of the foremost writers of twentieth-century Asia. Read the piece here: https://ras.org.in/index.php?Article=social_insight_in_pramoedya_ananta_toer%E2%80%99s_fiction.
09/04/2026
Antoinette Ferrand (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo) and Amr Khairy (IFAO and Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation) review the novel Al-Ard (The Land) by al-Sharqawi, “a work that remains a landmark in depicting rural Egyptian society.”
Read here: https://ras.org.in/?Article=the_peasantry_in_1930s_1940s_egypt.
08/04/2026
📢 New in RAS 16,1 !
John Harriss reviews Wladyslaw Reymont’s The Peasants, which won Reymont the Nobel Prize in 1924, beating many literary giants.
Read the essay here: https://ras.org.in/?Article=after_emancipation.
25/02/2026
RAS 15,2 finds mention in the February issue of Heterodox Economics Newsletter : https://heterodoxnews.com/n/htn355.html -17592186128463.
Read the full issue, featuring a Research Articles section based on the PARI village studies in UP, here: https://ras.org.in/index.php?browse_type=15_2.
New in RAS 16,1!
Contrary to popular belief, the benefits of food subsidies to consumers and farmers exceed the costs to the government.
Read the article by Sudha Narayanan (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR ) and Shree Saha (World Bank Group) to know more: https://ras.org.in/?Article=food_subsidies_in_india_revisiting_the_estimates.
19/12/2025
Reddy (Foundation for Agrarian Studies) and Madhura Swaminathan (ISI, Bangalore) found a widening disconnect between land-based and income-based mobility in rural Uttar Pradesh.
Read the research article in RAS 15,2 to know more: https://ras.org.in/?Article=land_and_income_mobility_in_two_north_indian_villages.
18/12/2025
How have rural household incomes changed since 2006? Niladri Sekhar Dhar and Kulvinder Gulia (WageIndicator ) looked at income mobility in rural Uttar Pradesh, finding a shift from farm to non-farm work.
Read the research article in RAS 15,2: https://ras.org.in/?Article=patterns_of_diversification_in_rural_household_incomes.
17/12/2025
Kunal Munjal (ISI, Bangalore) and Madhura Swaminathan (ISI, Bangalore) present a complete list of village studies on Uttar Pradesh undertaken since 1925, with a focus on Harevli and Mahatwar villages, surveyed by Foundation for Agrarian Studies in 2006 and 2023. Read the article here: https://ras.org.in/?Article=agrarian_change_in_uttar_pradesh.
04/12/2025
Peasant households’ share in total production is increasing. What does this tell us?
Read the research article by V. K. Ramachandran and CA ( for Agrarian Studies ) in RAS 15,2 to know more: https://ras.org.in/index.php?Article=peasants_and_proletarians_in_harevli_and_mahatwar.
03/12/2025
Niladri Dhar identifies the class structure in two villages of UP, finding a strong correlation between caste, class, and landholding.
Read the research article in RAS 15,2 to know more: https://ras.org.in/?Article=socioeconomic_classes_in_two_villages_in_uttar_pradesh.
27/11/2025
Deepak Mercy Johnson (Christ University, Bangalore ) and (Foundation for Agrarian Studies ) look at the economics of farming in a village in Uttar Pradesh, revealing deep inequalities in income across classes.
Read the research article in RAS 15,2 to know more: https://ras.org.in/index.php?Article=economics_of_farming_in_mahatwar_uttar_pradesh.