Project Documents:
Presentations:
Women and Economic Justice: Negotiations and Resistance about Land Rights
The Link Between Care Work and Domestic Violence in Covid-19 Lockdown in India
Gender Concerns in Environment, Climate and Energy
Gig Work and Surge in Domestic Violence in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Witch Persecution and Hunting in Indigenous & Rural Societies of India
Gender Concerns in Sustainable Energy and Environment
Between Protest and Policy: Women Claim their Right to Land
Climate Change: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Goals
Presentation in Myanmar workshop:
Women’s Agency and Sustainable Energy: An analysis of clean energy cooking policy in India
Presentations in Nepal workshop:
Modern Energy Cooking Services
Why Gender Issues in Sustained Use of Clean Cooking Energy
Analysis of clean energy cooking policy in India
Status of Clean Cooking Solutions and Government’s Plans & Policies
Publications Since 2015: Books
Entitlement and Empowerment: State Policies, Social Norms and land Rights in India. Forthcoming with Springer, 2026
Gender, Culture, and Capital: Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks Across Northeast India (Co-authored), Council for Social Development and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung South Asia, 2023.
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation (Co-authored), Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, India, 2020.
Women’s Asset Ownership and Reduction in Gender-Based Violence (Co-authored), Landesa and Heinrich Böll Foundation, New Delhi, India, 2015
CHAPTER IN BOOKS
Witch Hunts: Struggle Over Norms, Gender and Development Reader, (forthcoming)
The Gender Question in China’s Soft Power Engagement in the Global South (Co-authored), DAWN, “Gendered Impacts of China's Development Initiatives in the Global South” by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2026.
“Inequalities Persist: Policies and Social Constructs of Women’s Land Rights.” (Co-authored) Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century. Edited by Gordana Malešević, World Scientific, 2026.
“SDG 5 Gender Equality.” A Future We Choose: Why Investing in Earth Now Can Lead to a Trillion-dollar Benefit for All. Global Environment Outlook Seventh Edition, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya, 2025.
Gendered Social Norms and Attitudes in Access to Energy (Co-authored), Mapping Gender from the Margins to the Core, eds. Nilima Srivastava & Sunita Dhall, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025.
“A Feminist Theory of Witch Hunts.” (Co-authored) The Witch Studies Reader, Edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, Duke University Press, 2025.
“Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Women’s Entitlement to Land.” Council for Social Development, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“IT Industry in India: Testing the Limits of Change in Gendered Spaces.” How Green is the New Global Middle Class? Edited by Dawid Bartelt and Axel Harneit-Sievers, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2017.
“Gendering the IT Sector: The Culture of Managing Home and Technology.” Locating Gender in the New Middle Class in India. Edited by Manjeet Bhatia, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2017.
“Restricting Competition to Reduce Poverty: Impact of the Tourism Value Chain in an Upland Economy in China.” (Co-authored) Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016.
“At the Threshold of Economic Empowerment: Women, Work and Gender Regimes in Asia.” The Transformation of Women at Work in Asia: An Unfinished Development Agenda. SAGE Publications, New Delhi & ILO Publishing, Geneva, 2016.
“Witches: Through Changing Context Women Remain the Target.” (Co-authored) Violence Studies. Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016.
“Restricting Competition to Reduce Poverty: Impact of the Tourism Value Chain in an Upland Economy in China.” (Co-authored) Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
“At the Threshold of Economic Empowerment: Women, Work and Gender Regimes in Asia.” ILO Asia Pacific (Chapter in the book The Changing Nature of Women's Work in Asia: What Benefits from Growth and Economic Transformation?). SAGE Publications, 2015.
Monographs and Papers:
Culture, Capital, and Witch Hunts in Two Indigenous Societies in India Co- Authored Magic Ritual and Witchcraft (Spring 2026) The University of Pennsylvania.
Gender Dynamics in Soft Power of Emerging Economies across East Asia. Forthcoming in Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai.
The Burden of Patriarchy: Is there a Geography of Patriarchy in India? Forthcoming in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Delhi
Patriarchal Discrimination and Capitalist Relations: The Gender Question in the Gig Economy. Centre for Gender Studies Working Paper Series, Institute for Human Development (IHD), 2022.
Gender Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic. Co-authored, Journal of Development Policy Review Vol. 1, Issue 1 & 2, 2020.
The Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics. ENERGIA International, https://www.energia.org/2020.
Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Women’s Entitlement to Land. Co-authored, 2020.
Women and the Green Economy: Engaging with New Development Bank. Co-authored. Brics Feminist Watch Publication. 2019.
Women and Genetically Modified Crops: BT Cotton in India. Co-authored. Henrich Boll Foundation, Delhi, 2019.
Why the New Development Bank Should Have a Gender Policy. Co-authored, BRICS Feminist Watch Publication. 2018.
The Value of Rural Women’s Labour in Production and Wood Fuel Use. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 26-27. June 30th – July 7th, 2018.
The Political Economy of Land Ownership and Gender-based Violence. Society & Natural Resources – An International Journal. Taylor & Francis. Co-authored. 2018.
Energy Use and Women’s Work in Agriculture: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Economic & Political Weekly Vol LIII No17. Co-authored. April 28th, 2018.
Energy, Gender and Social Norms in Indigenous Rural Societies. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. LII, No.1. Co-authored. 2017
Exploring the Witch Question: A Study of Jharkhand, Co-Author, Indian Council of Social Science Research and Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, 2017.
The Policy Response to Women’s Entitlement to Land: Implementation Gradualism in the Limits of Social Norms. Presented at the World Bank Conference on Land & Poverty 2017.
Between Protest and Policy: Women Claim Their Right to Agricultural Land in Rural China and India. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, 2017.
Women’s Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Vol 5, Issue 1, 98-122. 2016.
Factoring Gender in Political Economy Analysis of Energy. ENERGIA News, The Netherlands, 2016.
Gender Regimes: An Assessment of Change. IIC Quarterly, Autumn 2015, Volume 42, Number 2. New Delhi. April 2015.
Unmediated Land Rights: Well-being for Women. Pradan News Reach. New Delhi. May-June 2015.
Promoting Very Poor Women’s Entrepreneurship: Combining Social Security with Training and Micro-credit. International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. Brasilia, Brazil. July 2015.
Culture, Capital and Witch Hunts in Two Indigenous Societies in India
Witch Hunts in Assam Youth & Contested Domain of Indigeneity (Unpublished)
Gender Unequal Land Rights: Social Norms and Attitudes (Unpublished)
Women, Land and Public Policy (Unpublished)
Transform Trade - Wearing Thin: Retailer Impact on Indian Garment Manufacturers, 2025
The Burden of Patriarchy Is There A Geography of Patriarchy in India
The Gender Question in the Gig Economy Patriarchal Discrimination and Capitalist Relations
Technological Upgrading and Educational Composition of the Workforce
Are knowledge monopolies driving global inequality?
Gendered Poverty in a Matrilineal State
Power through Culture: The Gender Paradigm in China’s Soft Power Engagement in the Global South
The Gender Question in China’s Soft Power Engagement in the Global South
Knowledge and Global Inequality: Monopoly-cum-Monopsony Capitalism
After the Long Walk Home…the Gendered Rural Safety Net
Knowledge Economy and Gender Inequality
From Monopoly to Monopsony Capitalism
Witch Hunts in India: The Nexus with Forms of Exclusion
Culture, Capital, and Witch Hunts in Meghalaya and Nagaland
Culture, Capital and Witch Hunts in Assam
Covid-19 Is Not an Exogenous Shock
Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Asset Ownership and Reduction in Gender-based Violence
Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics
Knowledge, Oligopoly and Labour in Global Value Chains
Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Women’s Entitlement to Land
Is Covid-19 an Exogenous Shock (Blog for UNU-WIDER)
The Value of Rural Women’s Labour in Production and Wood Fuel Use
Energy Use and Women’s Work in Agriculture Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Energy, Gender and Social Norms in Indigenous Rural Societies
Witch Persecution and Hunting in Indigenous and Rural Societies of India
Witch Hunts in India: The Nexus with Forms of Exclusion
Cultural and Economic Barriers in Switching to Clean Cooking Energy: Does Women’s Agency Make a Difference?
Gender, Culture, and Capital: Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks Across Northeast India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Arunachal Pradesh, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Assam, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Manipur, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Meghalaya, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Mizoram, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Nagaland, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Sikkim, India
Witch Hunts and Ritual Attacks: Gender, Culture and Capital in Tripura, India
Working Papers:
Gendered Safety Nets and Growing Inequality Pandemic-induced Recession in India
Patriarchal Discrimination and Capitalist Relations The Gender Question in the Gig Economy
Knowledge and Inequality: An Exploration
Gender and Energy : Scoping Study
Social Norms and Attitudes in Access to Energy
Policies, Practices and Social Norms: A Feminist Analysis
Gendering Political Economy Analysis of Energy Availability, Access and Use
Women’s Land Ownership and its Ramifications for Gender-based Violence
Recent Book:
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation