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Rural Development and Governance, TISS Hyderabad, K. B. Sainik School Premises, Brahmannapalli Road, Abdullapurmet Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad (2026)

24/07/2023

The Internal Placement Committee of M.A. in Rural Development & Governance would like to congratulate Riya Gupta for successfully completing her internship with ITC Limited.

This internship proved immensely helpful to Riya by providing hands-on experience in addressing social issues, developing research and analytical skills, and fostering collaboration with stakeholders.Her engagement with stakeholders and the development of essential skills has paved the way for a promising future in social impact and sustainable development.

Riya Gupta
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12/10/2022

A CONVERSATION WITH GITA RAMASWAMY

Dear Colleagues / Students
Greetings from the School of Livelihoods and Development,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Hyderabad Campus.

We invite you to a conversation with Gita Ramaswamy, author of "Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary" as part of our weekly Grameen lecture series.

Details of the Conversation:

Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 11 AM
Venue: Classroom 11

About the speaker:
Ms.Gita Ramaswamy is a social activist and author. She was earlier associated with the Marxist - Leninist movement in Telangana. In 1984, she started working among the landless Dalits of Ibrahimpatnam and led a decade-long historic battle against the powerful landlords of the region.She helped the Dalits in reclaiming the land and coming out of bonded labour. Ms.Ramaswamy is also the co-founder of Hyderabad Book Trust, a non- profit Telugu publishing collective. She has authored several books and has translated extensively from Telugu to English.

The further details of the session can be accessed in the attached poster.

We look forward to your participation!

07/09/2022

Greetings from the School of Livelihoods and Development,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Hyderabad Campus.

We invite you to Mr. Srikanta Kumar Routa's lecture on 'Community Institutions and their role in Rural Development- learnings from the field' which is part of our weekly Grameen Lecture Series. The lecture is scheduled for Sep 8 2022, 02:30 PM.

Details of the Lecture:

Topic: Community Institutions and their role in Rural Development- learnings from the field.
Date: Sep 8, 2022
Time: 02:30 PM
Venue: Classroom 11

The further details of the Session can be accessed in the attached poster.

We look forward to your participation!

Warm Regards,
Grameen Lecture Series Team
School of Livelihoods and Development

About the Speaker

Mr.Srikanta is presently Heading the field implementation of 'Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach Program' at The/Nudge Institution. Earlier, he worked with PRADAN as Natural Resource Management & Livelihood Expert. He was a National Fellow of DAY-NRLM, Govt. of India. He is an alumnus of TISS Hyderabad (RDG batch 2014) .

31/08/2022

Greetings!

The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to host Ashoke Chatterjee, the Executive Director of the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad, for the upcoming session of Grameen Talk Series 2022-23 organised by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

Topic: Can Our Future be Handmade?

A brief note about the Speaker:

Ashoke Chatterjee was the Executive Director of the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad. He was the Hon President of the Crafts Council of India for over twenty years. His books include "Dances of the Golden Hall" on the art of Shanta Rao and "Rising" on empowerment efforts among deprived communities in rural Gujarat. He largely contributed in areas pertaining to the drinking water, sanitation, disability, livelihoods education, and handicraft.

We look forward to your participation!

Date and Time: September 1,2022 | 3:30 PM IST

Registration LINK- https://zoom.us/j/94754774933?pwd=N3QyZ1FKQVR2WEwwUlhZbWJvNXBiUT09

17/08/2022

Greetings!
The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is once again back with its Grameen Lecture Series for the academic year 2022-2023.

For the upcoming session of the Grameen Lecture Series 2022-2023, we are very delighted to host Ms Sushma Iyengar, Chief curator of the exhibition "living lightly - Journey with pastoralists" organised by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

About the speaker:
Sushma Iyengar is one of the founders of Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan. In the Kutch region, she spearheads a range of organizations that address questions of gender justice, indigenous knowledge systems, traditional livelihoods, local governance, craft education, post-disaster rehabilitation, and pastoralism. Her publications include Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement (co-author, University of Chicago, 2013). She is the lead curator of the exhibition 'Living Lightly – Journeys with Pastoralists'.

Topic for the session: Pastoralism and Livelihood concerns in India

We look forward to your participation!

Date and Time: Thursday, 18th August, 2022 at 3.30 PM IST

Registration details:
Meeting ID: 937 3383 8066
Passcode: 388748
https://zoom.us/j/93733838066?pwd=ZDRhaWhwVUlIQURBbURDR3RoRGpRZz09

13/04/2022

Greetings!
The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to organize competency workshop on "Women entrepreneurship and primary sectors: Exploring value chains" with serial social entrepreneur Sir Krishnagopal GV, Group Cheif Excecutive Officer, Access Livelihoods Group.

We look forward to your participation!

Date and Time: April 14, 3:00 PM IST

Workshop Registration LINK- https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOmrqT4sG9DtIF3iriY7rjsyPCXdQyBW

30/03/2022

Greetings!
The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to host Dr. Aleena Sebastian, Assistant Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Banglore, for the upcoming session of Grameen Talk Series 2022-23 organised by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

Topic: Transformation of matriliny and women’s negotiation in the Malabar coast of South India.

A brief note about the talk:
The matrilineal customary practices among the Muslim communities in the Malabar coast underwent a legal transformation in the colonial period. The legal reform not only created a disjunction between the codified custom and the actual practices of the people, but it also refashioned the matrilineal tharavad (joint household) along conjugality and patrilineality. Some of the traditional customary practices (such as strisothu or henummula) which enabled women’s exclusive rights over property were dismissed as ‘invented customs’ by the colonial judiciary. This phase of legal reformulation of matriliny was also informed by the entry of Islamic reformists into the legal sphere- contesting matriliny as ‘un-Islamic’ and demanding the legal revocation of matriliny. The strategic intervention made by the matrilineal Muslim women of the Coast to secure their residential rights against the challenges of legal reform and religious reformist contestation is important to be examined. Conversion of tharavad as a waqf property offers a context to understand how Muslim women in Malabar negotiated and employed strategies to hold onto matrilineal practices and secure their residential and property rights.

We look forward to your participation!

Date and Time: March 31, 3:00 PM IST

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tf-uppjguHtVide10XeX23w4UhyTWOgj2

13/03/2022

Greetings!
The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to host Dr. C. Suvarna, IFS, for the upcoming session of Grameen Talk Series 2022-23 organised by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

Topic: Fisheries based Livelihoods: Initiatives by NFDB, Government of India

About the Speaker:
Dr. C. Suvarna is an IFS officer and chief executive for the National fisheries development board. Prior to that, she was the commissioner for the department of fisheries, Telangana state and secretary for Biodiversity board, Telangana state
Currently, she is Chief executive of the National Fisheries Development Board, Department of Fisheries, Government of India.

A brief note about the talk:
India's Blue Economy blueprint has been built on a foundation of transformation from the status quo to a development that incorporates the need to create wealth for equitable distribution while conserving our marine resources. Fish resources represent the natural capital of the blue economy landscape and are potential sources of sustainable wealth and employment for the coastal island and inland population. Speaking with S Rangbhashiam for employment news, Dr C Suvarna, Chief Executive, National Fisheries Development Board, details the government plans and policies to restructure the Indian fisheries sector in line with the country's vision for unlocking the true potential of the Blue Economy. The discussion during the lecture mainly revolves around the drawbacks and the plans and policies proposed to overcome the distress by the speaker.

We look forward to your participation!

Date and Time: March 14, 5:00 PM IST

Registration Link- https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkc-mhrD4pH9IPMTi2YapSsS1_zKgWXTni

02/02/2022

Greetings!
RDG Film society, the School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to screen "MANDI" - a film by Yashowardhan Mishra for the upcoming Reel Resistance Session, Film/Documentary Screening and Discussion 2021-22 organised by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

Film: Mandi - By Yashowardhan Mishra

Time & Date: Feb 3, 2022. 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM IST

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcuGrrzgtEteVQQ2fVgrw5TXHtyB01SP6

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Abstract: Whether it is inflation, natural calamities or policy-based development projects, farmers in India have always suffered from unrecoverable financial crises. There is no doubt that our country was and is called an agricultural country for majority of the population depends upon agriculture as a source of livelihood— but given the unfortunate conditions, farmers are still struggling to get the minimum price for their produce. In turn, they end up paying extra money in the form of commissions to sell their own produce in the market.

Mandi is a short film that deliberately portrays this particular problem farmers face across the country. Written and directed by Yashowardhan Mishra, this film is shot in a village in Maharashtra. The 10 minute-long film showcases the real incidents that took place in one of the mandis (markets). Post-screening the students and the lectures will have a captivating discussion session on the film and its association with the reality. We thereby would like to invite the interested candidates to register for participation in film screening and discussion in advance.

We look forward to your participation.

23/11/2021

Greetings!
The School of Livelihoods and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-campus, is very delighted to host Dr. Shinu Varkey for the upcoming session of Grameen Talk Series 2021-22 organized by the Rural Development and Governance programme.

Topic: "The Role of Prevailing Agrarian Relations in Lower Crop Productivity and Profitability".

Time & Date: Nov 25, 2021 3:00 PM INDIA
Register in advance for the meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-mgrDsiG9zpJV9tsSmB47kMx321rizd

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About the Speaker:
Shinu Varkey is the Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of Economics, St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kerala. He completed MA, MPhil and PhD in Economics respectively from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, University of Hyderabad, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest and specialisation include Agricultural Economics, Development Economics and Public Policy.

Brief note about the talk:
On the Role of Prevailing Agrarian Relations in Lower Crop Productivity and Profitability: Evidence from a Field Survey in Uttar Pradesh. This talk will focus on the agricultural performance of two regions of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) – Eastern U.P. and Bundelkhand – representing two distinct agrarian systems; the former falling mostly within the Gangetic plains and the latter an example of dryland agriculture. Despite the regional differences, it appears that differences in the levels of productivity and the net incomes earned in case of major crops cultivated are more class specific, and less region specific. It raises the broader question: what explains the lower crop productivity and output, and higher costs of production and meager returns from cultivation of the lower-class cultivators? While acknowledging the main stream economics explanation which is confined to technology and state policy related factors, the speaker argues that the existing agrarian relations also play a major role in lowering crop productivity and profitability in the study areas. Therefore, these must also be taken into account in an ideal analytical framework for understanding agrarian change in the countryside.

We look forward to your active participation!

26/10/2021

Greetings!
The Rural Development & Governance MA program, School of Livelihoods and Development, TISS Hyderabad invites you for an interactive lecture of the weekly Grameen Lecture Series.

Topic: "Personal Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: Ethnography of Adjudication in India."

About the speaker:
Dr. Suchandra Ghosh is a sociologist, currently working as an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Jhargram Raj College (Girls’ Wing), Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. Suchandra received her Ph.D. on the dissertation that addressed the Legal Pluralism and Adjudication of Personal Disputes practiced in the domain of Muslim family, gender, and kinship from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Drawing from her doctoral research, she has published papers in the Economic and Political Weekly, Orient Blackswan, and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She carried out a research assignment at the Leipzig University, Germany, as a Junior Research Fellow.

Time and date: Oct 28, 2021 03:00 PM India

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-GqrD4pGN3zvjX7t9ED000_Q-qx_Kv3

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Brief note about the discussion: The phenomenon of ‘legal pluralism’ in India is conditioned and facilitated by the democratic state’s commitment to protect religious freedom and uphold socio-cultural diversity. Community-based adjudicating institutions such as the Darul Qaza (also known as Sharia courts) function within this constitutional framework but every citizen also has the right to approach a state court as and when they deem necessary. So far, the discourse on Islam, personal law, and the secular state have revolved around parliamentary debates, judicial activism, and legislative changes where the focus has been on the question of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and gender justice. The discussion on personal law has rarely paid serious academic attention to the complexities of kinship conflicts embedded in affective as well as the economic and legal matrix or more importantly how they are resolved. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the jurisprudential practices of Sharia courts in the Kanpur dehaat (Uttar Pradesh, India), the talk will offer a lens to understand how conflict resolution in family matters takes place in a legal plural landscape ensconced between citizenship rights and community practices. Hence, understanding this arguement offers important insights into the shifting meaning of secularism in contemporary India.

We look forward to your participation!

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