For the first episode of FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Tapas Modak, Associate Fellow, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the changing patterns of irrigation in rural West Bengal.

Reading List:

1. Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in West Bengal, Edited by Aparajita Bakshi and Tapas Modak

2. Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh and West Bengal, 1949-1980, Boyce J.

3. Public to Private Irrigation: Implications for Equity in Access to Water, Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Tapas Modak

4. Sonar Bangla: Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh, Rogaly B., Harris-White B., and Bose

5. Water Resource Management: Institutional and Irrigation Development in India, Vaidyanathan A.