Cornell University, 2019 Abstract: The purpose of my dissertation research is to examine the effect of men’s non-farm employment on women’s economic roles in rural India, as mediated by class, caste, and education. The main hypothesis of my dissertation is that changes in men’s time-allocation towards...

Amit Anshumali graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in development sociology. He is a member of the writing seminar faculty in the Princeton University Writing Program. While at Cornell, Amit’s work focused on the connections between seasonal labor migration…