I aim to study the structure of food grain markets in the Pakistani Punjab using a political economy perspective that views the economy and, specifically, agricultural food grain markets not simply thorough the neo-classical lens of static allocative efficiency but, continuing in the tradition of Harriss-White, Ben Crow, Maureen Mackintosh etc, highlights price formation, resource transfers, poverty and enrichment, growth etc through the dynamic lens of class, state, gender and caste.

The ‘great land grab’ occupies centre stage in debates on Indian political economy today. This project explores the politics of the ongoing rapid and highly contested conversion of agricultural, forest, coastal and pastoral land for industrial and commercial purposes, which are geared towards serving the new economy.