Srishti Yadav is an assistant professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru and holds a PhD in Economics from The New School, New York, and an MA in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Growing up in Haryana, she has always been interested in the role of agriculture in India’s economy.
The field of Political Economy of Development allows her to frame this interest theoretically, and ask critical questions— despite rapid growth, why is the Indian economy predominantly agricultural? What is the nature of production relations within agriculture? In different parts of the country, how do agricultural and non-agricultural economies interact? What is the role of caste and gender in shaping these interactions? These questions, which require field-based research alongside the analysis of secondary data, motivated her doctoral research.