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Dr. Ashish Aman Sinha
Research Associate

PhD in Economics from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines). Along with his doctoral research he has worked as Project Research Associate, In Social Science Division, Sociological Research Unit at Indian Statistical Institute. Most of the research projects are on the environment and resources economics. More specifically, the studies are concerned with the public policy & governance pertaining to use and access to land and other natural resources and other agrarian issues including livelihood among the tribes.

He is presently associated in anIoE project jointly taken by Department of Economics, Hyderabad Central University and Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre Hyderabad.

  • Law, Environment and natural resources
  • Land governance ? land and forest
    - Land management system (customary and statutory)
    - Land use & conflict
  • Livelihood & Agrarian Issues
    - Policy and governance
    - Other concerning livelihood issues
  • Social choice theory (probability & ranking based)
  • Contract and corporate faming in socioeconomic dimension

Research Articles

Behera, Hari Charan, Manoranjan Pal, and Ashish Aman Sinha. "Contract farming among the potato growers in West Bengal: Opportunities and challenges." The Eastern Anthropologist 71.1-2 (2018): 161-182.

Behera, Hari Charan, Koteswara Rao Kodirekkala, and Ashish Aman Sinha. "Small and Marginal Farmers' Participation in Potato Contract Farming in West Bengal, India." Journal of Asian and African Studies (2021)

Sinha, Ashish Aman, Hari CharanBehera, Ajit Kumar Behura, and BrajaBandhu Swain. "Land Allocation Choice in Both Contract and Non-Contract Farming: A Study of Potato Growers in West Bengal, India." SAGE Open 11.3 (2021): 21582440211047593.

Sinha, Ashish Aman, Hari CharanBehera, Ajit Kumar Behura, Amiya Kumar Sahoo, and Utpal Kumar De. "Livelihood Assets and Income Generating Activities: A Comparative Analysis in the Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Areas of Jharkhand." Indian Journal of Human Development (2021): 09737030211064929.

Sinha, Ashish Aman, Hari Charan Behera, Ajit Kumar Behura, Manoranjan Pal. "Measuring Land tenure security among the tribal of Jharkhand" (Under second review in SSCI journal)
Sinha, Ashish Aman, Hari Charan Behera, Ajit Kumar Behura "Social and spatial factors and its impact on livelihood diversification on marginal and small landholding households in rural Jharkhand, India" (Under second review in SSCI journal)

Book Chapter

Sinha, Ashish Aman, Hari CharanBehera, Ajit Kumar Behura. "State and Tribal Land Alienation in Jharkhand: Following Colonial Footprints?" In Tribe, Space and Mobilisation: Colonial Dynamics and Post-Colonial Dilemma in Tribal Studies. edited by: MaguniCharanBehera, Springer Nature Book (in press)

Working Paper

Sinha, Ashish Aman & Krishna Kant "Prevalence of Agro technique in Tribal community and its impact on their economic development". : funded by Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Research Institute, Ranchi to Abhivyati Foundation, Giridih, Jharkahnd.

2019 - "Prevalence of Agro technique in Tribal community and its impact on their economic development". : funded by Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Research Institute, Ranchi to Abhivyati Foundation, Giridih, Jharkahnd.

2014, Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, "Developing Social equality through right to education in Jharkhand: A case Study", a national level seminar. .

2015 Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih,"Comparative study of changing the land use pattern in Bihar, Orissa and west Bengal",a national seminar.
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2016 Indian Statistical Institute & NABARD, Giridih, "Sawarnjayanti Gram SwarojgarYojana in Jharkhand Odisha and west Bengal: A comparative Study" a state level seminar.

2016 Global Land Project Beijing "Changing Land Tenure in Tribal Areas of Jharkhand" in 3rd Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Project,- Paper selected

2017 Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, "Land Alienation in Jharkhand: A Review" State level Seminar.

2017 Vishwa Bharti Shanti Niketan, Bolpur, "Natural Resources and Conflicts in Scheduled Areas" in A national Seminar on Contextualising conflict, its Resolution and Peace Building Initiatives in India."

2018 Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, "Land Alienation in Jharkhand: A review" A national Seminar on Land Labour and Livelihood."

Workshops

2017 Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, "One Day Orientation Training Program on Data Analytics."

2020 Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, "Handling the National Sample Survey (NSS) And Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) using STATA Software."

Member

Global Land Program