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The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas (2019)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R., & Rigaud, S. (2019). The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas. In S. Jodhka, & E. Simpson (Eds.), India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (326-352). Oxford University Press

In the decades that followed Independence, the study of rural society became the backbone for new sociological understandings of India. This chapter starts with one of these accounts –Colin Rosser’s study of the ‘hermit’villageof Malana –and... Read More about The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas.

The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh (2019)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2020). The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh. Modern Asian Studies, 54(3), 868-897. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X18000471

Exploring the intersection of state, religion, and ethnicity, this article considers the opportunities for individual and collective advancement available to Muslim Gujjars in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. Following the lives of three prominen... Read More about The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh.

From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India (2019)
Journal Article
Raj, J., & Axelby, R. (2019). From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53(2), 272-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719836881

This article examines the circumstances in which the tasks performed by professional labour contractors may be passed on to worker-agents. It does so by critically engaging with the experience of migrant workers from the eastern Indian state of Jhark... Read More about From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India.