Anirban Dasgupta


Professor
Ph.D (University of California, Riverside)
Research Areas: Development Economics; Political Economy; Methodology of Economics and Social Sciences
Email: anirban.dasgupta@iiit.ac.in

Anirban Dasgupta is a development economist trained in Calcutta University and the University of California, Riverside where he received his PhD in 2006. Before joining IIIT Hyderabad in December 2022 he has taught in South Asian University, New Delhi and International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His teaching interests include poverty and inequality, development strategy and inclusive growth, and methodology of social sciences. Anirban’s research areas are agrarian studies, development theory and growth processes. Most recently he has started working on the digital economy. He has published articles in Journal of Peasant Studies, European Journal of Development Research, Development and Change, Conservation and Society and Economic and Labour Relations Review. He has contributed to multiple edited volumes and co-edited two books on development studies.

Select Publications

  • [Article] Talreja, C. and Dasgupta, A., 2022. Why services cannot be the engine of growth for India. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(3), pp.629-653.
  • [Article] Dasgupta, A. 2021 “Peasant Production in India: How the ‘Need Economy’ Facilitates Accumulation.” Development and Change 52, no. 2 (2021): 217-240.
  • [Article] Arsel, Murat, Anirban Dasgupta, and Servaas Storm, 2021 eds. Reclaiming Development Studies. Anthem Press.
  • [Article] Dasgupta, A, Anhal, R. and Bhatnagar, A., 2019. Employment Scenario in Afghanistan from 2007-08 to 2013-14. International Labour Organization.
  • [Article] Dasgupta, A. “Land Reforms in Kerala and West Bengal: Two cases of Left Reformism and Development” in “The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Going Beyond Capitalist Transition” edited by Anthony D’Costa and Achin Chakraborty, 2017. Oxford and New York. Oxford University Press.
  • [Article] Arsel, M. and Dasgupta, A., 2015. Critique, rediscovery and revival in development studies. Development and Change, 46(4), pp.644-665.

Research Students

  • Ayush Yadav
  • Sreenivas Bhumireddy Papireddy