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Andaleeb Rahman
Andaleeb is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI), Cornell University. Currently, he is working on a book project, tentatively titled, Future of India's Social Welfare Regime, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. His other research interests include questions of ethnic politics.
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बढ़ते शहरीकरण के प्रभाव में ग्रामीण भारत में बढ़ता हुआ मोटापा
राष्ट्रीय परिवार स्वास्थ्य सर्वेक्षण (एनएफएचएस) 2015-16 के आंकड़ों के अनुसार भारत की लगभग 20% जनसंख्या मोटापे से ग्रस्त है। यह लेख बताता है कि देश में मोटापे की प्रवृत्ति ने इसके स्वाभाविक आर्थिक परिवर्तन का ही अनुसरण किया है जिसके अंतर्गत शहरीकरण में वृद्धि ग्रामीण विकास को प्रभावित करती है। इससे ज्ञात होता है कि शहर के आसपास के गांवों पर पड़ने वाले शहरीकरण के प्रभाव का दायरा जब एक किलोमीटर बढ़ता है तो लगभग 3,000 ग्रामीण महिलाओं में मोटापे में वृद्धि होती है।
Rising obesity in rural India, under the growing urban shadow
According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 2015-16, nearly 20% of India’s population is obese. This article shows that the country’s obesity trends have followed the nature of its economic transformation whereby urban growth impacts rural development. It finds that an additional kilometre of urban influence on surrounding villages leads to an increase in obesity incidence among approximately 3,000 rural women.
Diversity and public goods: Why the geographical unit of analysis matters
Research has shown that regions with higher caste diversity have lower share of villages with essential public goods. This article challenges this finding and shows that empirical models estimated at higher levels of geographical aggregation mask a considerable amount of variation. Any meaningful statistical relationship between diversity and public goods needs to be sensitive to geographical scale as the nature of local politics plays an important role.
Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste
B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-level Census data for five major cities in India – Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai – this article finds that not only are Indian cities highly segregated, but population size seems to have no association with the extent of segregation. In fact, the largest cities are some of the most segregated.