Harishwar Dayal is currently a Professor at the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and the Director of its Eastern Regional Centre, Ranchi. He has teaching and research experience of more than 25 years. He, earlier, was in the department of Economics at St. Xavier’s college, teaching Economics to the undergraduate and post-graduate students. He, at present, is on lien from the college.
Though, his core area of research is Labour Economics and Development Economics including Human Development; but has interest in election studies as well. He has been involved in surveys conducted by the CSDS for more than a decade and as a coordinator for the state of Jharkhand, he conducted the National Election Studies (NESs) of the years 1998, 1999, 2004, and 2009, various rounds of bi-annual surveys, Survey for the “State of Democracy in South Asia” (SDSA), for the “State of the Nation Survey” (SONS) and various other studies in the state of Jharkhand.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Journals
- “Resource Curse and Jharkhand” (with Dev Nathan) in Economic Political Weekly, December 19-25, 2009.
- “Jharkhand: Politics of Performance” (With B. K. Sinha) in Economic Political Weekly, September 26 to October 2, 2009
- “Development and Deprivation of Scheduled Tribes” (Co-Author) in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.41 No. 46, November 18-November 24, 2006.
- “Labour Migration from Jharkhand” (with Anup Karan) Labour and Development Vol. 9 No. 2 December 2003.
- “Rural Credit in a Tribal Area: A Study of Its Adequacy and Suitability” in Social Change, Vol. 29 No.3&4 year 1999.
- “Discrimination against Female Farm Labour in Jharkhand Region of Bihar”, (with Ramesh Sharan) in Indian Journal of Labour Economics Vol.37 No.4 year 1994.
- “Migration and Occupational Changes in a Scheduled Caste Community- A Case Study of Ghasis of Ranchi” (with Ramesh Sharan ) in Indian Journal of Labour Economics Vol.39 No.4 year 1996
Articles in Edited books
- Migration as a Means of Livelihood for the Tribals of Jharkhand” published in The Other Side of Development: The Tribal Story, edited by Arun Kumar Ghosh and Ram Dayal Munda and Published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2012.
- “Jharkhand: the Reversal of Past Trend” (With Sanjay Kumar) in Electoral Politics in Indian States ed. by Sandip Sashtry, K. C. Suri and Yogendra and published by Oxford University Press, in May 2009.
- “Development and Deprivation of Indigenous Peoples/ Scheduled Tribes in India: What the Figures Tell” (Co-Author) in Indicators Relevant for Indigenous Peoples: A Resource Book published by Tebttebba in 2008.
- “Poverty and Deprivation Among Scheduled Tribes in India” (with Anup Karan and P. Anthony) In R Radhakrishna and Shovan Ray ed. Oxford Handbook of Poverty in India: Perspectives Policies and Programmes, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005
- “Migration from Rural Bihar and Jharkhand” (with Anup Karan) in K. Gopal Iyer (ed) Distressed Migrant Labour in India: Key Human Rights Issues, Kanishka, New Delhi, 2004.
- Social and Economic Security for the Scheduled Tribe” (with Anup Karan) in S. Mahendra Dev et al (ed.) Social and Economic Security in India published by Institute For Human Development, New Delhi, 2001.
- “Development Strategy for Tribals in Jharkhand” (with Ramesh Sharan) in Sharat Kumar and Praveen Jha ed. Development of Bihar and Jharkhand Problems and Prospects. Published by Shipra, Delhi,2001.
Books and Monographs
- Food Security Atlas of Rural Jharkhand, (Co-Author) Published by UN World Food Programme and Institute for Human Development, New Delhi 2008.
- Scheduled Tribes of India: Development and Deprivation (Co-Author) Published by Institute for Human Development, Delhi. August 2006.
- “Development and Deprivation of Indigenous Peoples/ Scheduled Tribes in India: What the Figures Tell” (Co-Author) in Indicators Relevant for Indigenous Peoples: A Resource Book published by Tebttebba in 2008.
Project Reports
- With Anup Karan “Poverty and Livelihood in a Tribal Region”. The Study was conducted in the year 1998 by the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi and supported by ACTIONAID.
- “Rural Migration in Jharkhand”. The study was conducted in the year 2001 by the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi and sponsored by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India, New Delhi.
- “Jharkhand State Prospective Paper on Micro-Finance through Self Help Group Movement” the report was submitted to CARE, Jharkhand in the year 2001.
- “Base line survey of the six Minority Concentrated Districts of Jharkhand”, the reports were submitted to ICSSR in the year 2008.
- “Baseline Assessment study of learner’s Achievements and Its Determinants” The Report was submitted to Sir Ratan Tata Trust in July 2009.
- “State Programme Strategy for the states of Bihar and Jharkhand” the report was submitted to CARE, India in the year 2009.
- “Mid Term Evaluation of the 11th five year plan for the state of Jharkhand” The report was submitted to the Planning Commission in the year 2010.
- “Human Development Report of Pakur District”. The report was submitted to the Department of Planning, Government of Jharkhand. Final version submitted in December, 2012.
