The Foundation for Agrarian Studies is a charitable trust based in India and established in 2003. Its major objectives are to facilitate and sponsor multi-disciplinary theoretical and empirical enquiry in the field of agrarian studies in India and elsewhere in less-developed countries. It does so in association with a wide section of people interested in the agrarian question, including persons associated with academic institutions, social and political activists, members of mass organizations working in the countryside, and other professionals and scholars.


Description of villages surveyed in 2012: in Bihar • Description of villages surveyed in 2011: in Punjab • FAS collaboration with Japanese scholars.

  Child Wellbeing, Schooling and Living Standards Six reports based on village surveys in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka: in Publications

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