Books & Monographs

• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (ed). 2018. Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World, Canberra: ANU Press.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (April 2014). Experiencing, Coping with Change: Women-Headed Farming Households in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, Canberra: Australian Council for International Agricultural Research.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (ed) 2014. The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and the Politics of Coal in India Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta (2013) Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia, Agrarian Studies Series, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) (2013) Rethinking Displacement: Asia-Pacific Perspectives [PDF, 315KB], Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (ed) 2011. Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU E Press.
• Raju, Saraswati and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) 2011. Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India [PDF, 1912KB], New Delhi: Routledge
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and David Williams 2010. Moving pictures: Rickshaw art of Bangladesh [PDF, 4972KB], Mapin Books, Ahmedabad and Grantha, US.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Robert Wasson(eds) 2008. Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities [PDF, 151KB], Sage, New Delhi.
• Singh, Gurdeep, David Laurenceand Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) 2007. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Managing the Social and Environmental Consequences of Coal Mining in India, November 19-21, 2007, New Delhi, India, Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Martha Macintyre (eds) 2006. Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others [PDF, 966KB], Ashgate, Aldershot.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala(ed) 2006. Fluid Bonds: Views on gender and water [PDF, 41KB], Stree, Calcutta.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2001. Mining and Urbanization in the Raniganj Coalbelt, The World Press, Calcutta.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 1990. In Search of a Homeland: Anglo-Indians and McCluskiegunge, Minerva Associates Pvt. Ltd, Calcutta.

Journal articles

• Pattnaik, I., K. Lahiri-Dutt, S. Lockie and W. Pritchard, 2017, The feminization of agriculture or the feminization of agrarian distress? Tracking the trajectory of women in agriculture in India, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Available from: http://www-tandfonline-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1080/13547860.2...
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (ed). 2018. Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World, Canberra: ANU Press.Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2017. Resources and the Politics of Sovereignty: The Moral and Immoral Economies of Coal Mining in India, SOUTH ASIA: JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 2017 https://doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1080/00856401.2017.1370211
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Hugh Brown, 2017. Governing the ungovernable? Reflections on informal gemstone mining in high-altitude borderlands of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, http://dx.doi.org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1080/13549839.2017.1357688
  - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2017. Thinking ‘differently’ about a feminist critical geography of development, Geographical Research, doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12211
• Siddiqui, Z, K. Lahiri-Dutt, Stewart Lockie and Bill Pritchard, Reconsidering Women’s Work in Rural India: An Analysis of NSS Data, 2004–05 and 2011–12, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 52(1): 45-52.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2016. Diverse economies of coal: Energising the nation, energising livelihoods, Special Issue on Coal and Development, Energy Policy. Availablwe online at: http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0301421516302762
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Hishgee Dondov. 2016. Change and continuity in the rangelands: Informal mining in Mongolia, Local Environment. Available from: http://www-tandfonline-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.....
• Roy Chowdhury, Arnab and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, The geophagous peasants of Kalahandi: De-peasantisation and artisanal mining of coloured gemstones in India, Extractive Industries and Society. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214790X16300442
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Mohan Adhikari. 2015. From sharecropping to crop-rent: women farmers changing agricultural production relations in rural South Asia, Agriculture and Human Values. Online at: http://link.springer.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/article/10.1007/s10460-015-9...
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Feminisation of mining, Geography Compass, 9(9): 523–541.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Counting (gendered) water use at home, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography, 14(3): 652–672.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Researching world class watering in metropolitan Calcutta, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography, 14(3): 700–730.
• Fam, Dena, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Zoe Sofoulis. 2015. Scaling down: researching household water practices, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geography, 14(3): 639–651.
• Siddiqui, Zakaria and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt 2015. Livelihoods of marginal mining and quarry households in India, Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Rural Affairs, Vol L, No. 26-27, June 27, pp. 27-37.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Chapter 5: Background of the Utopia, Reprinted from ‘In Search of a Homeland: Anglo-Indians and McCluskiegunge’, [International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies](International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 55-78.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2014. Beyond the water-land binary in geography: Water/lands of Bengal re-visioning hybridity, ACME: International Journal of Critical Geography, Volume 13, issue 3, pp 505-529.
• Lahiri-Dutt. Kuntala and Pallabi Sil. 2014. Women’s ‘double day’ in middle-class homes in small-town India, Contemporary South Asia, December.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2014. Medicalising Menstruation: A Feminist Political Economic Critique of Menstrual Hygiene Management in South Asia, Gender, Place and Culture. Published online, 12th August, 2014.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Kim Alexander and Chansouk Insouvanh, 2014. Informal Mining in Livelihood Diversification: Mineral Dependence and Rural Communities in Lao PDR, [South East Asia Research](doi: 10.5367/sear.2014.0194), 22(1):103–122.
  - Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. 2014. ‘Women as marginal workers in informal mining and quarrying, India: A preliminary analysis’, [Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy](DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2014.880287).
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2014. Chars: Islands that float within rivers, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 8(2): 22-38.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2013. ‘How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?’ Space and Culture, India, Vol 1, No. 1.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, ‘Bodies in/out of Place, Masculinities and Motherhood of Kamins in Indian Coal Mines [PDF, 154KB]’, South Asian History and Culture. DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2013.768846
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. ‘Large Dams and Changes in an Agrarian Society: Gendering the Impacts of Damodar Valley Corporation in Eastern India [PDF, 508KB]’, June, 2012. Water Alternatives, 5(2): 529-542.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2012. Gender (plays) in Tanjung Bara mining camp in Eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia [PDF, 281KB] (2012 iFirst), Gender, Place and Culture
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Radhika Krishnan and Nesar Ahmad 2012. Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Private Coal Companies in Jharkhand [PDF, 596KB], Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII(6): 39-45.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2011. The Shifting Gender of Coal: Feminist Musings on Women’s Work in Indian Collieries [PDF, 175KB], South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 30th November, 2011, DOI: 10.1080/0085640/2011.633984
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2011. Digging Women: Towards a New Agenda for Feminist Critiques of Mining [PDF, 317KB], Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Kate Harriden, 2008. ‘Act on Gender: A peep into intra-household water use in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region. [PDF, 192KB]’ Journal of Rural Society 17(3): 230-42.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2008. ‘Digging to survive: Women’s livelihoods in South Asia’s small mines and quarries. [PDF, 199KB]’ *South Asian Survey *15(2), pp. 217-44.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Kathryn Robinson, 2008. ‘“period problems” at the coalface. [PDF, 114KB]’ Feminist Review 89(1) 102-21.
• Deb Mihir, Garima Tiwari and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2008. ‘Artisanal and small-scale mining in India: Selected studies and an overview of the issues. [PDF, 1167KB]’ International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment Vol. 22(2), pp: 194-209.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2007. ‘Like the drifting grains of sand: Vulnerability, security and adjustment by communities in the charlands of the Damodar delta, jointly with Gopa Samanta. [PDF, 183KB]’ South Asia, Journal of the South Asian Studies Association 32(2): 320-57.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Prasun Kumar Gangopadhyay, 2007. ‘Subsurface coalfires in the Raniganj Coalbelt: Investigating their causes and assessing human impacts.’ Resources, Energy and Development 4(1): 71-87.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2007. Roles and status of women in extractive industries in India: Making a place for a gender sensitive mining development [PDF, 97KB], Social Change 37(4): 37-64.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2007. Illegal coal mining in eastern India: Rethinking legitimacy and limits of justice [PDF, 288KB], Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLII, No. 49, December 8-14, pp. 57-67. Reprinted in 2009 as a chapter in Sanam Roohi and Ranabir Samaddar (eds) Key Texts on Social Justice in India: State of Justice in India, Issues of Social Justice, Sage, 294-323.
• Lahiri-Dutt, K., 2007. Coal mining industry at the crossroads: Coal policy in liberalizing India [PDF, 1034KB],](https://crawford-anu-edu-au.virtual.anu.edu.au/pdf/staff/rmap/lahiridutt...) in Gurdeep Singh, David Laurence and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Managing the Social and Environmental Consequences of Coal Mining in India, November 19-21, New Delhi, India, Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, pp. 27-40.
• Lahiri-Dutt, K., 2006. ‘May God Give us Chaos, so that we can Plunder: A critique of resource curse and conflict theories. [PDF, 114KB]’ Development, 49(3): 14-21.
• Ahmad, Nesar and K. Lahiri-Dut, 2007. Missing concerns: Engendering mining displacement in Jharkhand [PDF, 165KB], Gender, Technology, Development, 10(3): 313-39.
• Lahiri-Dutt, K., and G. Samanta, 2006. ‘Constructing social capital: Self-help groups and rural women’s development in India. [PDF, 98KB]’ Geographical Research, 44(3): 285-95.
• Gangopadhyay, Prasun Kumar, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Kanika Saha, 2006. ‘Application of remote sensing to identify coal fires in the Raniganj coalbelt, India. [PDF, 428KB]’ International Journal of Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 8 (3): 188-95.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. ‘Mainstreaming gender in the mines: results from an Indonesian colliery. [PDF, 65KB]’ Development in Practice, 16(2): 215-21.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2005. ‘Uncertain livelihoods: Survival strategies in charland environments in India.’ International Journal of Environment and Development. 2(2): 165-78, New Delhi.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and David Williams, 2005. ‘The coal cycle: A small part of the illegal coal mining in eastern India. [PDF, 0KB]’ Resource, Environment and Development, 2(2): 93-105.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Pallabi Sil, 2004. ‘Beyond the boundary: Middle class women in income generating activities in Burdwan, India. [PDF, 181KB]’ Contemporary South Asia, 13(3): 255-70.
• Herbert, Tony and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2004. ‘Coal sector loans and displacement of indigenous populations: Lessons from Jharkhand. [PDF, 41KB]’ Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIX(23): 2403-9.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2004. ‘Fleeting land, fleeting people: Bangladeshi women in a charland environment in lower Bengal, India. [PDF, 707KB]’ Asia Pacific Journal of Migration 13(4) 475-96.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2004. ‘Urban informal sector as a mirror of rural-urban interaction: Focus on rickshaw pullers, Burdwan, India.’ Oriental Geographer 48(2): 11-30.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2004. ‘Informality in mineral resource management in Asia: Raising questions relating to community economies and sustainable development. [PDF, 381KB]’ Natural Resources Forum, 28(2): 128-32.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2004. ‘I plan, you participate: A southern view of community participation in urban Australia. [PDF, 108KB]’ Community Development Journal, 39 (1): 13-27.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2003. ‘Life in pathar khadans: Women workers in stone quarries in eastern India.’ Urban Health and Development Bulletin, 6(4): 39-45.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2003. ‘Reflections on water: Gender and governance in Indian development.’ Development Bulletin, No. 63, pp. 50-54.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2003. ‘Informal mining in eastern India: Evidences from the Raniganj coalbelt. [PDF, 116KB]’ Natural Resources Forum, 27: 68-77.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2003. People, power and rivers: Experiences from the Damodar river, India [PDF, 558KB], Water Nepal, 9/10(1 & 2): 251-67.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2002. ‘When the mines come: Some observations.’ Transactions, Institute of Indian Geographers, 24(1 & 2): 89-95.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2002. ‘State initiatives for the empowerment of women of rural communities: Experiences from eastern India. [PDF, 119KB]’ Community Development Journal, 37 (2), 137-56.
• Main, Hamish, Sabeeha Lageard and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2000. Limited horizons: Fuel transition and domestic environmental improvement in South Asian cities, Oriental Geographer, 44(1): 61-73.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta 2002. Million cities of India: A review of 2001 Census, Urban India, 21(2): 97-110.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2001. From gin girls to scavengers: Women in Raniganj collieries [PDF, 288KB], Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI(44): 4213-21.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. Sustainable development: emerging critiques, Indian Journal of Geography and Environment, Vol. 5: 68-8, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2001. Million cities of India: Growth and occupational structures, Journal of Asian Research, Hong Kong, 20(1 & 2): 153-67.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2001. Rebirth of a River, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI, Nos 14 & 15, April 14-20, 2001, pp.1181-1183.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2002. Water as a human right: Towards the resolution of water related conflicts, Northeastern Geographer, 12(2): 1-10.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. A new bonding: Coal in the energy sector in South Asia, South Asian Survey, 7(1): 131-41.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. Gender dimension of mining: Women workers in Indian coalmines, Mining Environmental Management, London, September, pp 19-21.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. ‘Other’ geographies: Postmodernist landscapes under construction, Journal of the Indian Geographical Foundation, Calcutta, 6-7, Winter: 45-63.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta 1996. Rural-urban linkages: A study of the town bus service around Burdwan, Journal of Indian Geographical Foundation, 3, Winter, pp. 31-39.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. Struggle and survival: Female-headed households in a low income area of Burdwan Town, India, Asian Profile, 28(2): 135-47.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. Imagining rivers [PDF, 319KB], Economic and Political Weekly,. XXXV(27): 2395-2400.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. State, market and the crisis in Raniganj Coalbelt [PDF, 0KB], Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIV(41): 2952-6.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. Whose water? Local level resource management and governance in the changing world scenario, Hill Geographer, Vol 20(2): 1-10.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1997. Environmental assessments: Perceptions of impacts of coal mining, Urban India, XIX (2): 59-72.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2000. Gendered exclusion: Women workers in Indian coalmines, Proceedings of the Workshop on Regional Histories of Women, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University and Department of History, Calcutta University.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. The promised land: Coal mining and displacement of indigenous communities In Eastern India, Asia-Pacific Journal on Environment and Development, 6(1): 31-46.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. State, market and the crisis in Raniganj Coalbelt, Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIV(41): 2952-6.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1998. Reflections on socio-economic field surveys: An expose of recent methods,Geographical Review of India, Calcutta, 60(1): 62-72.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1997. Caught between two worlds: Birhors of Hazaribagh and tribal development in India, Journal of the Anthropological Society, Oxford University, Oxford, 28(2): 193-200.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1996. Occupational structure of mining towns of West Bengal, Urban India, XVI(1): 107-20.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1994. Urban growth in West Bengal: A study of outgrowths, 1981 and 1991, Urban India,pp. 69-85.

Book chapters

• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Towards a more comprehensive understanding of rivers, in Ramaswamy Iyer (ed) Living Rivers, Dying Rivers, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 421-434.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. Gender in and gender and mining: Feminist approaches, in Anne Coles, Leslie Gray and Janet Momsen (eds) The Routledge Handbook on Gender and Development, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 162-172.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2015. The silent (and gendered) violence: Understanding water access in mining areas through the rights lens, chapter in Stephanie Boechler and Anne-Marie Hansom (eds), A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 38-57.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2014. Introducing coal in India: Energising the nation, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 1-37.

5. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2014. Between Legitimacy and Illegality: Informal coal mining at the limits of justice, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-62.

- Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2014. Stranded between the state and the market: ‘Uneconomic’ mine closure in the Raniganj coal belt, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-62.129-143. - Herbert, Tony and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2014. World Bank, coal and indigenous peoples: Lessons from Parej East, Jharkhand, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-62.145-164. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Radhika Krishnan and Nesar Ahmad. 2014. ‘Captive’ coal mining in Jharkhand: Taking land from indigenous communities, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-62.165-182. - Ahmad, Nesar and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. 2014. Gender in coal mining induced displacement and rehabilitation in Jharkhand, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) The Coal Nation: Histories, Politics and Ecologies of Coal in India, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 39-62.229-255. - Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2013. ‘Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda’ in Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) Rethinking Displacement: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 3-30. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2013. Home-making and Regrounding: Lives of Bangladeshi Migrants on the Damodar Charlands of Lower Bengal, India, in Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) Rethinking Displacement: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 197-220. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gill Burke, 2011. Gender Mainstreaming in Mining in Asia: Need for a Development Perspective, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed) Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU E Press. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2011. Gender-based Evaluation of Development Projects: Use of the LAST Method, in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, (ed.) Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU E Press. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2010. [The mega-project of mining: A feminist critique [PDF, 320KB],](https://crawford-anu-edu-au.virtual.anu.edu.au/pdf/staff/rmap/lahiridutt...) in Stanley Brunn (eds) *Engineering Earth, Springer. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2009. Geography as a marginal social science, in Ravi S. Singh (ed) Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 242-250. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2009. Women, water and Rights [PDF, 2395KB], in Ramaswamy Iyer (ed) Water and Law in India, Sage, New Delhi, 275-304. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Kathryn Robinson, 2008. Bodies in contest: Labour legislation and women mineworkers’ agency in a coalmine [PDF, 918KB], in Michelle Ford and Lyn Parker (eds) Women and Work in Indonesia, Routledge, London, pp. 120-35. - Samanta, Gopa and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2007. Marginal lives in marginal lands: Livelihood strategies of female-headed, immigrant, households in the charlands of river Damodar [PDF, 150KB], West Bengal, Jointly with in Sumi Krishna (ed) ‘Livelihoods and Citizenship in India’, Sage, New Delhi, pp. 99-120. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. Kamins building the empire: Class, caste and gender interface in Indian collieries [PDF, 122KB], in Jaclyn Gier and Laurie Mercier (eds) Mining Women: Gender in the development of a global industry, 1670-2005, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 71-87. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. Globalisation and women miners in Indonesia [PDF, 172KB], in Lahiri-Dutt, K. and M. Macintyre (ed) Women miners in developing countries: Pit women and others, Ashgate, pp. 349-370. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. Mining gender at work in the Indian collieries: Identity construction by Kamins [PDF, 160KB], in Lahiri-Dutt, K. and M. Macintyre (ed) Women miners in developing countries: Pit women and others Ashgate, pp. 163-184. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Martha Macintyre, 2006. [Introduction: Where life is in the pits (and elsewhere) and gendered [PDF, 138KB],] https://crawford-anu-edu-au.virtual.anu.edu.au/pdf/staff/rmap/lahiridutt...) in Lahiri-Dutt, K. and M. Macintyre (ed) Women miners in developing countries: Pit women and others, Ashgate, pp. 1-24. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. Nadi O Nari: Social construction of rivers as women in rural Bengal, in Lahiri-Dutt, K. (ed) Fluid Bonds: Views on gender and water, Stree, Calcutta, pp. 387-408 - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2006. Introduction, in Lahiri-Dutt, K. (ed) Fluid Bonds: Views on gender and water Stree, Calcutta, pp. xiii-xl. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta, 2004. Close rural-urban interactions in India: Evidences from Burdwan and its surrounding region, India, in P. Maiti and K. R. Gupta (ed) urban development debates: theories and praxes, Atlantic Books, New Delhi, pp. 19-211. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2003. Not a small job: Stone quarrying and women workers in the Rajmahal Traps in eastern India [PDF, 113KB] in Gavin Hilson (ed) The socio-economic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries, Published by AA Balkema, a division of Swets and Zeitliger Publishers, The Netherlands, pp. 425-48. - Samanta, Gopa and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2003. Transport network and rural development in Burdwan district, West Bengal, in B.C. Vaidya (ed) Geography of Transport Development in India, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. pp. 423-31. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. Subjective assessment of the environment: What it is and how to do it, in D. K. Basu et al (eds.) Environment: Issues and Challenges, Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, pp 214-41. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. Gender inequalities in the mining-industrial-urban economy of the Raniganj Coalbelt of West Bengal, India, in Graham Chapman, Ashok Dutt and Robert Bradnock (eds.)* Urban Growth and Development in Asia, Volume II: Living in Cities*, Ashgate Publishing, England, pp 167-76. - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Prasanta Kumar Jana, 1998. Satellite imagery and its role in environmental management system: An Environmental Impact Assessment of Raniganj Coalbelt, in Dilip Roy (ed,) Environmental Management with Indian Experience, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1999. Landuse changes in a mining region: The case of the Raniganj coalbelt, in N. Prasad and R. Basu (eds) Contemporary Dimensions in Geography, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, pp. 206-16.

Publications: Important Policy Documents

1. Cane, I., A. Schleger, S. Ali, D. Kemp, N. Mcintyre, P. Mckenna, A. Lechner, B. Dalaibuyan, K. Lahiri-Dutt, and N. Bulovic. 2015. Responsible Mining in Mongolia: Enhancing Positive Engagement, Brisbane: University of Queensland, Sustainable Minerals Institute.
2. Adriana Eftimie, Katherine Heller, John Strongman Jennifer Hinton, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Nellie Mutemeri, with Chansouk Insouvanh, Michael Godet Sambo, and Susan Wagner. 2012. Gender Dimensions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining A Rapid Assessment Toolkit, Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

Consultancy Reports

• The People Dimension of Mining [PDF, 301KB], Technical Paper for UNDP, Cambodia, March-April, 2010.
• Improving Rural Women’s Livelihoods in Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (ASM) Communities in Lao PDR [PDF, 2313KB] (With Chansouk Insouvanh), Mongolia and PNG, World Bank, October 2009 - October 2010.
• Impacts of Mining on Women and Youth in two Locations in Indonesia [PDF, 1112KB] (with Petra Mahy), World Bank, December 2006-March 2007.
• Gender Needs Assessment of Rural Women in Three Village Clusters, November-December 2004: Kaltim Prima Coal, Indonesia.
• Gender Survey of KPC, August-September 2004: Kaltim Prima Coal, Indonesia.

Working papers

• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2014. Extracting Peasants from the Fields: Rushing for a Livelihood? Asia Research Institute, WPS 216, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2006. Coal mining industry at the crossroads: Towards a coal policy in liberalising India, November 2007, Working Paper for Australia South Asia Research Centre, Canberra.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2007. Balancing on Water: Managing Water Resources of India for People and the Environment [PDF, 199KB], South Asia Research Facility, Asia-Pacific Futures Network
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2007. Diluted Citizenship: Women, Water and Law in the Midst of Inequalities in India, Working Paper for Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development, ANU, Canberra.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2006. Gendered livelihoods in small mines and quarries in India: Living on the edge, Working Paper for Australia South Asia Research Centre, Canberra, and Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2006. The Last Frontier? Energy Resources in South Asia [PDF, 398KB], Working Paper for Australia South Asia Research Centre, Canberra. Available from

Book reviews

• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2010. [‘Of cleanliness and godliness’] http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24475), A review of Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity, Virginia Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. available from
  - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala 2009. The City in Action: Bombay Struggles for Power [PDF, 267KB], Jim Masselos, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Asian Studies Review, 33: 4, 551 — 553.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2009. Contested Terrain [PDF, 237KB] (ed) Amita Baviskar, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Book Review, January, pp. 22-23.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2007. Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home [PDF, 54KB], Alison Blunt, RGS-IBG Book Series, Blackwell Publishing. Geographical Research, September, 2007, 45(3) 325-327.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2004. Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and identity in development (ed) Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker & Paul Silitoe, Pluto Press, London, Anthropological Forum, 15(1) 86-88.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2002. Contested Belonging: An Indigenous People’s Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal (2000) B. G. Karlsson, Curzon Press, UK, Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVIII (36) 3722-3724.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2002. Effects of Globalization on Industry and the Environment (eds) (2001) Rajat Acharyya and Bhaswar Moitra, Lancer’s Books, New Delhi, Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII(14): 1333.
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2002. Ecology and Economics (2001) Ram Prasad Sengupta, Oxford University Press, Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII (2): 129-130.

Articles (non-refereed publications)

• Indus Floods, 2010: ‘Why did the Sindhu break its agreement?’
• Indian Women: Bargaining with Patriarchy
• Viewpoint on mineral resource ownership, Natural Resources Forum.
• The global context of community engagement in mining: What India can learn and what India can do, Lecture delivered in a conference in Kolkata, organized by Asia-Pacific Partnership and DRET.
• Engendering urban environmental management: A study of women councilors in Burdwan, India, Jointly with Gopa Samanta, Pallabi Sil and Chhanda Karfa, Women and Environments, Special 30th Anniversary issue on women and urban sustainability, No. 70/71, Spring/Summer, 2006, pp. 42-47.
• Geography as a marginal social science, Economic and Political Weekly, February 12, 2005.
• The ‘Iron Lady’ in Indonesian mining, Mining Environmental Management, July, 2005.
• Queen coal, Mining Environmental Management, September 2004, p.25.
• Real and hidden miners: The badli system of labour exchange in the collieries of India, Mining Environmental Management, 2003.
• Fluid Bonds, a booklet, National Institute for Environment, The Australian National University, 2003
• Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 2001. Women in mining as part of sustainable development, Mining Environmental Management, UK, November 2001, pp. 15-9