Research team
Bio

Sociologist, India
ODRIIS co-coordinator
Sociologist by formation, Venkatasubramanian is an associate researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) for more than fifteen years, where he has developed skills in various disciplines far beyond sociology (especially economics and geography). He is above all a field researcher. He has been working on a large number of topics. Over the last few years, he has specialised himself on rural development, the role of NGOs and especially microfinance organisations, analysing their role in poverty eradication.
Contact: venkat@ifpindia.org
Publications with NEEMSIS datasets
- Ten Years in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-Economic, Labour and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey
- For Money Can’t Buy Me Love? The Political Economy of Marriages Over Two Decades in Tamil Nadu, South India
- Debt and the Politics of Numbers: Hegemonic Numbers, Political Numbers, Ordinary Numbers
- The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
- Surviving Debt and Survival Debt in Times of Lockdown
- There Has Been No Silent Revolution: A Decade of Empowerment for Women in Rural Tamil Nadu
- Insights on Demonetisation from Rural Tamil Nadu: understanding social networks and social protection