Manuscripts in preparation

Bhattacharya, S. & Kesar, S. '‘Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India’. R&R World Development

Journal articles

Kesar, S., & Goldstein, S. (2025) 'Introduction to the Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine', Review of Radical Political Economics, (57), 2, pp 260-265.
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Abraham, R. & Kesar S. (2025) 'Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy'. World Development
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Kesar, S. (2024). Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy. Development and Change, 55(1): 38–75.
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Kesar, S. (2023). Economic transition, dualism and informality in India: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions. Review of Development Economics, 27(4), 2438-2469.
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Kvangraven, I. H., & Kesar, S. (2023). Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda. Review of International Political Economy, 30(5), 1723-1748.
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Bhattacharya, S., Kesar, S., & Mehra, S. (2023). Exclusion, surplus population, and the labour question in postcolonial capitalism: Future directions in political economy of development. Review of Political Economy, 35(1), 145-173.
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Kesar, S., Bhattacharya, S., & Banerjee, L. (2022). Contradictions and crisis in the world of work: Informality, precarity and the pandemic. Development and Change, 53(6), 1254-1282.
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Abraham, R., Basole, A., & Kesar, S. (2022). Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market. Economia Politica, 39, 101-128.
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Kesar, S., Abraham, R., Lahoti, R., Nath, P., & Basole, A. (2021). Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 42(1-2), 145-164.
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Bhattacharya, S., & Kesar, S. (2020). Precarity and development: Production and labor processes in the informal economy in India. Review of Radical Political Economics, 52(3), 387-408.
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Kesar, S., & Bhattacharya, S. (2020). Dualism and structural transformation: The informal manufacturing sector in India. The European Journal of Development Research, 32, 560-586.
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Bhattacharya, S., & Kesar, S. (2018). Possibilities of transformation: The informal sector in India. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(4), 727-735.  
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