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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.
Posts by Andaleeb Rahman
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 परिव...
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Anaka Aiyar
Prabhu Pingali
Andaleeb Rahman
07 अप्रैल, 2021
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How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?
While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from t...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Andaleeb Rahman
18 January, 2021
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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 econ...
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Anaka Aiyar
Prabhu Pingali
Andaleeb Rahman
12 January, 2021
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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 ...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Sumit Mishra
Andaleeb Rahman
23 November, 2020
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A permanent cordon-sanitaire: Dalits and Muslims in urban India
Near-perfect segregation and hierarchical ordering of residential space, based on caste or religious identity, is a well-known feature of rural India. Studies have also documented the persistence of s...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Andaleeb Rahman
09 October, 2020
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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-leve...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Sumit Mishra
Andaleeb Rahman
01 July, 2020
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