Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

About Alpa ShahBrendan DoneganDalel BenbabaaliJayaseelan RajJens LercheRichard AxelbyVikramaditya Thakur

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017) and In the Shadows of the State Indigenous Politics Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand India (Duke 2010). She has also written about affirmative action labour migration agrarian change and India and Nepal's Maoist inspired revolutionary struggles. Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS University of London. He has published on low castes rural and migrant labour and agrarian relations in India for more than two decades. He is editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change and the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. His writing focuses on environmental history natural resource management science in colonial India British identity and development work. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She has previously taught at LSE and the Sorbonne University. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE. He previously held positions at SOAS and Goldsmiths where he taught courses in Social Anthropology and Development Studies. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Vikramditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. Completing his PhD in Anthropology at Yale University he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at London School of Economics and Brown University. His research on the Bhils of western India addresses forced displacement resettlement agrarian transformation and ecological changes. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala. He completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Bergen before joining LSE as a postdoctoral fellow. He has conducted long term fieldwork on Dalit and Adivasis in the tea plantations of South India and on their land struggles. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017).