# Anoop Sarbahi ## Pages - [Working Papers](https://sarbahi.com/research/working-papers/): “Colonial Land Tenure & Communist Insurgency: Evidence from Sub-district Analysis in India.”

This paper investigates the effects of colonial-era land tenure systems on the incidence of communist insurgency in India. Of the two dominant systems of land tenure, the ryotwari system involving direct revenue settlement with the cultivators are generally considered to be better than zamindari system that relies on feudal intermediaries. The former is widely associated with better socio-economic and political outcomes in post-colonial India. This paper questions the frequently-articulated superiority of the ryotwari system over the zamindari system in the context of a ‘minimalist’ colonial state that seeks to... - [Teaching](https://sarbahi.com/teaching/): University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesPOL 8660: Graduate Seminar on Political Violence.POL 4991: Political Science Capstone.POL 3423: Politics of Disruption: Violence and its Alternatives.POL 3431: Politics of India.POL 1054/1054H: Puzzles in World Politics.
 Stanford UniversityPOLISCI 242A: Civil Wars and Peace Processes.POLISCI 141S: Politics of India. - [Publications](https://sarbahi.com/research/publications/): “The Moderating Effect of Democracy on Climate-Induced Social Conflict: Evidence from Indian Districts.” (with Ore Koren). Political Research Quarterly. 75(3):892–905. View paper » Do political institutions moderate the effect of environmental stress on social conflict? We posit that while the frequency of social conflict in developing agrarian states can increase during drought, democratic competition reduces conflict and can facilitate cooperation, reversing this effect. This hypothesis is tested on a sample of all districts in India over a period from 2001 to 2014. The dependent variable captures the number of crimes perpetrated against scheduled castes—so-called “untouchables”—and scheduled tribes—India’s Indigenous groups —... - [Research](https://sarbahi.com/research/): Publications Working Papers Ongoing Projects - [Ongoing Projects](https://sarbahi.com/research/ongoing-projects/): Book Project Anchoring Rebellion: Ethnicity, Religion and Conflict Trajectory in South and Southeast Asia.

Ethnic groups are generally viewed by the scholarship on political violence as having a strong potential for political mobilization. Yet we observe a significant variation in the ability of the ethnic rebels to mobilize co-ethnics. What accounts for the variation in rebel mobilization across ethnic rebellions? In this book, I offer a socio-structural theory of rebellion that not only accounts for the variation in insurgent mobilization across ethnic rebellions but also outcomes of such conflicts by tracing the roots of conflict outcomes in insurgent mobilization. While the... [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)