Dr. Kranthi Nanduri
April 1, 2024 2024-04-01 11:32Dr. Kranthi Nanduri
Dr. Kranthi Nanduri
Assistant Professor
PhD (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta)
Integrated Master of Arts (University of Hyderabad)
Kranthi Nanduri is an Assistant Professor at Jindal School of Banking and Finance in O.P. Jindal Global University. She works in the field of political economy, and she is interested in studying accumulation and growth processes in India. Her PhD work at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta focuses on how diverse trajectories of agrarian change and accumulation shape non-agrarian informal accumulation patterns across major Indian states.
She was awarded Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Taiwan Fellowship in 2023. She spent six months (July – December 2023) as a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University in Taiwan where she studied the trajectory of agrarian change and rural industrialization of Taiwan and potential insights for rural MSMEs in India and Make in India policies.
Kranthi’s current research explores the themes of agrarian change, rural industrialization, the role of MSMEs and entrepreneurship in rural growth and development processes in India and East Asia. She aims to highlight the intersections of class, caste, and gender in rural accumulation processes.
Core courses (Undergraduate):
- Economics-I
- Economics-II
- Advanced MS Excel Workshop
Elective courses (Advanced Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
The Entrepreneurial State, Markets, and Institutions
Journal / Book Chapter Publications
Mukherjee, S., & Nanduri, K. (2024). Economic growth and social justice: A Study with reference to agricultural households in Bihar. In Development with Justice (pp. 196-205). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Babbar, K., Swathysree, S. S., & Nanduri, K. (2023). Navigating through menstrual health experiences of educated urban individuals who menstruate during the COVID-19 lockdown: a study from India. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-12.
Saha, D., Nanduri, K., & Das, R. (2021). Agrarian reforms and farmers’ protests in India: a policy perspective. New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, 2021(80), 37-41.
Nanduri, K. (2016). Kaushik Basu: Understanding the economic principles of policymaking in India. Decision, 43(4), 413-415.
Other Publications
Saha, D., Nanduri, K., & Das, R. (2021). Farmers’ Protest in India: A Manifestation of Rural Agrarian Crisis. Casasouth. Org
International
Invited Speaker, Understanding agrarian change and agrarian crises in India. College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University. 16 November 2023.
Invited Plenary Speaker for the Keynote conversation on ‘Forms of Organization and Collective Action’, Journal of Peasant Studies and China Agricultural University Conference. Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century. Beijing, China. 10-12 October 2023.
Invited Speaker, Nanduri, K (2023). Emerging growth prospects of the blue economy: contradictions between marine resource extraction and sustainable management. International Forum on Ocean Governance & National Implementation, co-organized by the Asia-Pacific Policy Research Association and the Ocean Affairs Council, Taipei, Taiwan. 3 – 5 October 2023.
Nanduri, K and Mohanty, M (2023). ‘Trajectories of Agrarian Change in India: Challenges to Rural Demand Growth and Resilience’, The 3rd Tsinghua Area Studies Forum, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 3 to 5 July 2023.
Nanduri, K and Mohanty, M (2020). ‘Variations in the nature of informality in India- A view from the standpoint of Accumulation and Structural Change’, Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) 2020 Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism’, July- November 2020 (held online due to the CoVID-19 pandemic).
Nanduri, K and Mohanty, M (2020). ‘Variations in the nature of informality in India- A view from the standpoint of Accumulation and Structural Change’, AFEP-IIPPE Conference ‘Envisioning the Economy of the Future and the Future of Political Economy’, Lille, France, 3 to 5 July 2019.
Domestic
Nanduri Kranthi (2024). ‘Bringing the rural household to the centre of rural development planning in India- Insights from Taiwan’s agricultural household income diversification’. Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bharat Krishak Samaj Conference- Looking Beyond Income Paradigms: Bringing Rural Dignity in India’s Policy Discourse, New Delhi, India. 29 January 2024.
Invited Speaker, Patterns of Accumulation and Differentiation in the Non-Agrarian Sector in India. Foundation for Agrarian Studies Young Scholars’ Online Seminar Series 2022-23, 25 August 2022.
Nanduri Kranthi and Mohanty, M (2022). ‘Can Informal-sector Enterprises become Sites of Capital Accumulation in India?’, Society for Social and Economic Research Young Scholars’ Conference-Exploring New Research Frontiers in Social Sciences, New Delhi, (online). 15-16 January 2022.
Doctoral Workshops
Participated in the National Workshop on Crisis Management for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises organized by the National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Hyderabad, 16 March 2022 (online).
Presented my doctoral thesis synopsis in the panel of ‘Labour-Capital Relationship and Accumulation’ at the ‘Doctoral Day’, AFEP-IIPPE Conference ‘Envisioning the Economy of the Future and the Future of Political Economy’, Lille, France, 2 July 2019.
Participated in the ‘Graduate Workshop on Economics and its History’ at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. 17-19 November 2016.
Tawain Fellowship 2023 by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan).
Indian Youth Delegate to China- Youth Exchange Programme, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India from 9 to 16 June 2017
Qualified University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship and National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor in Economics in June 2014
Awarded ‘Summer Research Fellowship’ by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras during May- July 2013
Qualified state level APRJC CET entrance examination in 2007 to pursue intermediate (higher secondary) education and received free education and boarding during 2007-2009.
Qualified district level Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Entrance examination in 2002 and received free education and boarding at JNV Krishna during 2002-2005.
Member, Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS).
Coordinator, Agrarian Change and Supply Chain Thematic Group, CASAS.