Sohel Firdos

Fellow in Development Studies

Ph.D. (Jawarlal Nehru University, India)

Research Interests:   

Spatial Relationship between Environmental Resources and Economy of Tribes, Urban Slums, Application of GIS in Regional Development

Courses Taught:
 

Social Geography, Economic Geography, Introduction to GIS in Social Science Research

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN A BOOK:

• ‘Socio-economic Transformation of Tribes in Jharkhand: Reflections from Land Distribution, Workforce Structure and Income’ in R.R. Prasad and G. Rajanikanth (eds.): Rural Development and Social Change, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad and Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, pp. 199-215, 2006.

ARTICLE IN A CONFERENCE VOLUME:

• 'Depletion of Environmental Resources and the Living Conditions of a Primitive Tribal Group: A Case Study of Birhors in Bihar', Proceedings of South Asian Conference on Human Development, Institute of Social Sciences and UNDP, New Delhi, 2000.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• ‘Forest Degradation, Changing Workforce Structure and Population Redistribution: The Case of Birhors in Jharkhand, India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XL, No.8, Feb 19-25, 2005. 
   

• ‘Trajectories of Socio-Economic Transformation of Tribes in Jharkhand’, forthcoming in the Journal of Indian Anthropological Society.

JOURNALS CO-EDITED

• Five issues of ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews: Geography, Vol. XVIII, No.2, Vol. IX, No.2, Vol. XX, No.1 and No.2, Vol. XXI, No.1.

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES: 

• ‘Urban Workforce in North Bengal: Core Sectors of Employment and Strategies for their Development’, Forthcoming research paper 
   

• ‘Forestry and Marginalisation: Comparative Perspectives from India and New Zealand’, Working Paper 
   

• ‘Non-Farm employment among the Tribes of Jharkhand’, Working Paper 
   

• ‘Rethinking Development of Tribes’, Working Paper