Professor Roger Jeffery
Job Title
Professor (Emeritus)
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Email
R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk
Research interests
Research themes
Research interests
The Sociology of Scotland; Social history of medicine
From 1972 to 2024 I was involved in many research projects in South Asia, including research in village and small-town north India investigating how religious group membership and caste interrelate with childbearing, fertility behaviour, gender politics and schooling, in the context of agrarian change and the decline of the state. Other topics included public health, social forestry, sustainable nitrogen management and the politics of health. My current research interests focus on UK women doctors, and on the effects of South Asia on Edinburgh, and more broadly, on Scotland, in the long 19th century, and the implications for contemporary Scottish society, culture and politics.
I am not accepting any new PhD students
Background
Qualifications
- MA (University of Cambridge)
- MSc (Soc Sci) (University of Bristol)
- PhD (University of Edinburgh)
Publications from 2022
Edited Books
2025 (in press) Roger Jeffery with Friederike Voigt (eds). Perspectives on India: Edinburgh’s Colonial and Contemporary Views (New Delhi: Social Science Press, and London: Routledge)
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
2025: Roger Jeffery: ‘Women who qualified as doctors in the United Kingdom, 1877-1914: Birthplaces, parentage, and training’ Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. DOI: 10.1177/14782715251333612.
2024: Roger Jeffery, David S. Jones, and Kiran Kumbhar. ‘The historical sociology of medicine in India: Introduction to the special section.’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 46, 5: 791-794. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13737.
2024: Roger Jeffery: 'Current Challenges for Doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, Reprofessionalisation or Fragmentation?' Sociology of Health & Illness, 46, 5: 795-814. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13564.
2022: Clémence Jullien and Roger Jeffery. ‘Becoming a mother in COVID-19: Adjustments in performing motherhood.’ Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, 9 (2): 1–27. DOI: 10.17157/mat.9.2.5310.
2022: Anastasia L. Yang, Nandula Raghuram, Stephen D Porter, Tapan K. Adhya, Sangeeta Bansal, Ananta Panda, Nissanka, S. Aminath Shazly, Rifaath Hassan, Mohammad A. Watto, Anik, A.R., Rajendra Joshi, A. Jayaweera, Anju Pokhrel, Himadri Kaushik, David Kanter, Sharna, S., Sharmin, S., Smriti Das, & Roger Jeffery. ‘Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia: Gaps and opportunities’, Environmental Research Letters. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac48b2.
2022: Roger Jeffery: ‘Health policy and federalism in India’ Territory, Politics, Governance, 10, 1 (67-85), doi: 10.1080/21622671.2021.1899976
Other publications
2022: Antonia Simpson and Roger Jeffery: ‘John Borthwick Gilchrist: An Edinburgh Lad O’ Pairts Let Loose in India and London’ Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, New Series 17: 1-14.
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Jullien C, Jeffery R. Becoming a mother in COVID-19: Adjustments in performing motherhood. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 2022 Apr 28;9(2). doi: 10.17157/mat.9.2.5310 |
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Yang AL, Raghuram N, Adhya TK, Porter SD, Panda AN, Kaushik H et al. Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia: Gaps and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. 2022 Feb;17(2):025007. Epub 2022 Jan 28. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac48b2 |
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Jeffery R. Health policy and federalism in India. Territory, Politics, Governance. 2022 Feb;10(1):67-85. Epub 2021 May 17. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2021.1899976 |
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Rose P, (ed.), Arnot M, (ed.), Jeffery R, (ed.), Singal N. Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts: Research and Policy in International Development. 1 ed. London: Routledge, 2021. 286 p. (Education, Poverty and International Development). doi: 10.4324/9780429293467 |
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Rose P, Arnot M, Jeffery R, Singal N. Education and the reform of social inequalities in the Global South: An introduction. In Rose P, Arnot M, Jeffery R, Singal N, editors, Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts: Research and Policy in International Development. 1 ed. London: Routledge. 2021. (Education, Poverty and International Development). doi: 10.4324/9780429293467-1 |
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Bhatti F, Jeffery R. Confronting social inequality through fertility change in Punjab, Pakistan: The role of girls’ schooling. In Rose P, Arnot M, Jeffery R, Singal N, editors, Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts: Research and Policy in International Development. 1 ed. London: Routledge. 2021. (Education, Poverty and International Development). doi: 10.4324/9780429293467-10 |
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Raghuram N, Sutton MA, Jeffery R, Ramachandran R, Adhya TK. From South Asia to the world: Embracing the challenge of global sustainable nitrogen management. One Earth. 2021 Jan 22;4(1):22-27. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.12.017 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Delayed periods and falling babies: The ethnophysiology and politics of pregnancy loss in rural north India. In Cecil R, editor, Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neo-natal Death. 1 ed. London: Routledge. 2020. p. 17-37 doi: 10.4324/9781003135722-3 |
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Pelikan K, Jeffery R, Roelcke T. ‘The time where the British took the lead is over’: Ethical aspects of writing in complex research partnerships. Research Ethics. 2020 May 16. Epub 2020 May 16. doi: 10.1177/1747016120915253 |
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Jeffery R. Medical education, inclusiveness, democracy and development in contemporary India. In Varghese NV, Bandyopadhyay M, editors, Education, Democracy and Development: Equity and Inclusion. Delhi, India: NIEPA - Shipra Publications. 2020 |
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Jeffery R. Medical education for women in Edinburgh: The India connection, 1869-1914. In Jeffery R, editor, India in Edinburgh: 1750s to the Present. 1 ed. New Delhi: Routledge. 2019. p. 192-215 doi: 10.4324/9780429326882 |
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Sariola S, Jeffery R, Jesani A, Porter G. How civil society organisations changed regulation of clinical trials in India. Science as Culture. 2019 Apr 3;28(2):200-222. Epub 2018 Jul 13. doi: 10.1080/09505431.2018.1493449 |
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Pelikan K, Jeffery R, Zinsstag J, Roelcke T. “mawasiliano ya mradi": Wissenschaftssprache(n) in Forschungsprojekten. Bulletin Vals-Asla: Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée. 2019;109:75-91. |
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Jeffery R. War against disease without violence to clinical trial participants? In Chandra S, editor, Violence and Non-Violence Across Time: History, Religion and Culture. 1 ed. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. 2018. p. 222-246 doi: 10.4324/9780429466205 |
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Jeffery R, Porter G, Jesani A, Sariola S, Ravindran D. Structure, organization and knowledge production of the Indian clinical trials industry. In Jesani A, Prasad P, editors, Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India. Oxford University Press. 2018. p. 178-201 |
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Kadam A, Maigetter K, Jeffery R, Mistry N, Weiss M, Pollock A. Correcting India’s Chronic Shortage of Drug Inspectors to Ensure the Production and Distribution of Safe, High-Quality Medicines. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 2016 May 31;5. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.44 |
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Jeffery R, Gorringe H. Institutionalising marginal actors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu: Insights from Dalit electoral data. In Gorringe H, Jeffery R, Waghmore S, editors, From the Margins to the Mainstream. 1 ed. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. 2016. p. 104-130 |
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Gorringe H, (ed.), Jeffery R, (ed.), Waghmore S, (ed.). From the Margins to the Mainstream: Institutionalising Minorities in South Asia. 1 ed. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2016. 332 p. |
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Gorringe H, Jeffery R, Waghmore S. Introduction: Institutionalising Marginal Actors in South Asia: Processes, Policies, Practices and Pitfalls. In Gorringe H, Jeffery R, Waghmore S, editors, From the Margins to the Mainstream: Institutionalising Minorities in South Asia. 1 ed. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. 2016. p. xxi-xxxvi |
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Sariola S, Ravindran D, Jeffery R. Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and contract research organisations in India. Social Science & Medicine. 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.052 |
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Hayter A, Jeffery R, Sharma C, Prost A, Kinra S. Community perceptions of health and chronic disease in South Indian rural transitional communities: A qualitative study. Global Health Action . 2015;8:25946. doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.25946 |
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Magadzire BP, Budden A, Ward K, Jeffery R, Sanders D. Frontline health workers as brokers: provider perceptions, experiences and mitigating strategies to improve access to essential medicines in South Africa. BMC Health Services Research. 2014 Dec 1;14(1):1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12913-014-0520-6 |
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Jeffery R. The future of human rights in India. Discover Society. 2014 Sept. |
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Jeffery R, (ed.), Jeffrey C, (ed.), Lerche J, (ed.). Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2014. 284 p. |
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Jeffery R. Authorship in multi-disciplinary, multi-national North-South research projects: issues of equity, capacity and accountability. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 2014 Mar 4;44(2):208-229. Epub 2013 Sept 13. doi: 10.1080/03057925.2013.829300 |
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Roderick P, Mahajan R, McGettigan P, Pollock AM, Jeffery R. Will the new Government introduce an Indian Drugs Bill to deliver rational regulation of safe and effective drugs? Economic and Political Weekly. 2014;49(33):15-19. |
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Jeffery R. Extended Book Review of Jagdish Bhagwati, and Arvind Panagariya. 2013. Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries. New York: PublicAffairs; Jean Drèze Jean and Amartya Sen. 2013. An uncertain glory: India and its contradictions. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press and Penguin; and Gupta, Akhil. 2012. Red tape: Bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. European Journal of Sociology. 2014;55(3):464-72. |
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Arnot M, Jeffery R, Casely-Heyfod L, Noronha C. Schooling and Domestic Transitions: Shifting Gender Relations and Female Agency in Rural Ghana and India. Comparative Education. 2012;47. Epub 2012 Jan 5. doi: 10.1080/03050068.2011.608896 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Leading by Example? Women Madrasah Teachers in Rural North India. In Bano M, Kalmbach H, editors, Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. 2012. p. 195-216 . (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World). |
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Jeffery R, Bhatti F, Noronha C, Jeffery P. Girls' Schooling and Women's Autonomy in South Asia: Revisiting Old Debates with New Data from India and Pakistan. In Colclough C, editor, Education Outcomes and Poverty: A Reassessment. Routledge. 2012. p. 16-35. (Education, Poverty and International Development). |
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Brhlikova P, Harper I, Jeffery R, Rawal N, Subedi M, Santhosh MR. Trust and the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals: South Asia in a Globalised World. Globalization and Health. 2011;7:10. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-10 |
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Jeffery R, Jeffery P, Jeffrey C. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle-Class? In Baviskar A, Ray R, editors, Elite and Everyman: the Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes. Routledge. 2011. p. 140-163 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. “‘Money itself discriminates’: Obstetric emergencies in the time of liberalisation”. In Baviskar A, Sivaramakrishnan K, editors, The State in India after Liberalization. Routledge. 2011. p. 133-151 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Underserved and Overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in Rural North India. Contemporary South Asia. 2011;19(2):117-135. Epub 2011 Jun 30. doi: 10.1080/09584935.2010.537744 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Only When the Boat has Started Sinking: A Maternal Death in Rural North India. Social Science & Medicine. 2010 Nov;71(10):1711-1718. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.002 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. EDUCATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MASCULINITIES IN INDIA. Social Science Press-Orient BlackSwan Joint Publication, 2010. 256 p. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health care in rural north India. In Heath AF, Jeffery R, editors, Diversity and Change in Modern India: economic, social and political approaches ( 159). Oxford University Press. 2010. p. 47-71. (Proceedings of the British Academy). doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264515.003.0003 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Polio in North India: What Next? Economic and Political Weekly. 2010;45(15):23-26. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffrey C, Jeffery R. Aisha, the madrasah teacher. In Banerjee M, editor, Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India. Indiana University Press. 2010. p. 56-68 |
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(Anthony Francis) , Jeffery R. Diversity and change in modern India: economic, social and political approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 309 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy). doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264515.001.0001 |
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Jeffery R. Regulation without implementation : India in a global pharmaceutical world. University of Edinburgh. 2009 Dec 1. |
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Harper I, Jeffery R. Trust, ethics and spurious medicine. Himal South Asian. 2009 Aug. |
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Gorringe H, Jeffery R, Sariola S. Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities. Journal of south asian development. 2009 Apr;4(1):16. doi: 10.1177/097317410900400101 |
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Das A, Jeffery R. Pharmaceuticals, Physicians and Public Policy: Unravelling the Relationships. Journal of Health Studies. 2009;2. |
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Jeffery R, Santhosh MR. Architecture of drug regulation in India : what are the barriers to regulatory reform? Journal of Health Studies. 2009;2:13-32. |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India. The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS). 2008 Nov;67(4):1365-1396. doi: 10.1017/S0021911808001812 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. 'Money itself discriminates': Obstetric emergencies in the time of liberalisation. Contributions to Indian Sociology . 2008 Apr 1;42(1):59-91. doi: 10.1177/006996670704200104 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. ‘Money Itself Discriminates’: Obstetric Emergencies in the Time of Liberalisation. Contributions to indian Sociology. 2008 Apr;42(1):59-91. doi: 10.1177/006996670704200104 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India. Stanford University Press, 2008. 256 p. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Disputing Contraception: Muslim Reform, Secular Change and Fertility. Modern Asian Studies. 2008;42(2-3):519-548. doi: 10.1017/S0026749X07003162 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Karate, Computers and the Qur’ān Sharīf: Zamir. In Banerjee M, editor, Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India. Indiana University Press. 2008. p. 69-80 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery R, Jeffery P. School and madrasah education: gender and the strategies of Muslim young men in rural north India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 2008;38(5):581-593. doi: 10.1080/03057920802351358 |
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Jeffery P, Ecks S, Basu S, Bhattarai S, Singh N, Brhilikova P et al. Qualitative research on fluoxetine and oxytocin in India. University of Edinburgh. 2007 Jul 3. |
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Brhilikova P, Pollock A, Basu S, Bhattarai S, Das Gupta A, Singh N et al. Good manufacturing practice in the pharmaceutical industry. University of Edinburgh. 2007 Jul 3. |
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Harper I, Subedi MS, Bhattarai S, Basu S, Das Gupta A, Ecks S et al. Drug procurement in Nepal. University of Edinburgh. 2007 Jul 3. |
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Jeffery R, Basu S, Bhattarai S, Brhilikova P, Das Gupta A, Ecks S et al. Pharmaceuticals distribution systems in India. University of Edinburgh. 2007 Jul 2, p. 27. (Centre for International Public Health Policy working paper). |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Investing in the Future: Education in the Social and Cultural Reproduction of Muslims in UP. In Hasan M, editor, Living with Secularism: The Destiny of India’s Muslims. Manohar, New Delhi. 2007. p. 63-89 |
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Jeffery R, Jeffery P, Rao M. Safe motherhood initiatives: Contributions from small-scale studies. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 2007;14(2):285-294. doi: 10.1177/097152150701400204 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. “From Sir Syed to Sachar: Muslims and Education in rural Bijnor”. Indian Journal of Secularism. 2007;11(2):1-35. |
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Jeffery P, Das A, Dasgupta J, Jeffery R. Unmonitored Intrapartum Oxytocin use in Home Deliveries: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India. Reproductive Health Matters. 2007;15(30):172-178. doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)30320-0 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Confronting saffron demography: religion, fertility, and women's status in India. Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2006. 161 p. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Urbane geographies: schooling, jobs and the quest for civility in rural north India. In Raju S, Kumar MS, Corbridge S, editors, Colonial, Postcolonial Geographies of India. SAGE Publications. 2006. p. 223-240 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. The First Madrasa: Learned Mawlawīs and the Educated Mother. In Hartung JP, Reifeld H, editors, Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity: Dīnī Madāris in India Post 9/11. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. 2006. p. 227-251 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Reproducing difference? Schooling, jobs, and empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India. World Development. 2005 Dec;33(12):2085-2101. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.006 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. “Reproducing Difference? Schooling, Jobs and Empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India”. World Development. 2005;33(12):2085-2101. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffrey C, Jeffery R. “The Mother’s Lap and the Civilising Mission: Madrasah Education and rural Muslim girls in western Uttar Pradesh”. In Hasan Z, Menon R, editors, In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India. Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 108-148 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. When schooling fails: Young men, education and low-caste politics in rural north India. Contributions to indian Sociology. 2005;39(1):138. doi: 10.1177/006996670503900101 |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. “When Schooling Fails: Young men, education and low caste politics in north India”. Contributions to indian Sociology. 2005;39(1):1-38. |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery P, Jeffery R. "A useless thing!" or "nectar of the gods"? The cultural production of education and young men's struggles for respect in liberalizing north India. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2004 Dec;94(4):961-981. |
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Jeffrey C, Jeffery R, Jeffery P. Degrees without freedom: The impact of formal education on Dalit young men in North India. Development and change. 2004 Nov;35(5):963-986. |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R, Jeffrey C. Islamization, gentrification and domestication: 'A girls' Islamic course' and rural Muslims in western Uttar Pradesh. Modern Asian Studies. 2004 Feb;38:153. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X040010015 |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. A population out of control? Myths about Muslim fertility in contemporary India. World Development. 2002 Oct;30(10):1805-1822. |
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Jeffery R, Jeffrey CJ, Jeffery PM. Social and political dominance in western UP: A response to Sudha Pai. Contributions to indian Sociology. 2001;35(2):213-235. |
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Jeffery R, Jeffery P. On misrepresentation in academic writing: Letter to development and change. Development and change. 2000 Mar;31(2):509-512. |
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Jeffery R. The social life of trees. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1999 Dec;5(4):630-630. |
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Jeffery R. The looming epidemic: The impact of HIV and AIDS in India. Commonwealth & comparative politics. 1999 Nov;37(3):161-162. |
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Jeffery R. The social life of trees: anthropological perspectives on tree symbolism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1999 Jun;5(2):330-331. |
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Jeffery R. Maternities and modernities: Colonial and postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific. The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS). 1999 May;58(2):467-468. |
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Jeffery R, Jeffery P. Population, gender, and politics: demographic change in rural North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 278 p. (Contemporary South Asia). |
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Jeffery P, Jeffery R. Don't marry me to a plowman! women's everyday lives in rural North India. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1996. 294 p. |
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JEFFERY R, JEFFERY PM. THE BIJNOR RIOTS, OCTOBER 1990 - COLLAPSE OF A MYTHICAL SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. Economic and Political Weekly. 1994 Mar 5;29(10):551-558. |
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JEFFERY R. ESSAYS ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH - SOUTH ASIAN CASE-STUDIES - NICHTER,M. Sociology of Health & Illness. 1990 Mar;12(1):113-114. |
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JEFFERY R, JEFFERY P, LYON A. TAKING DUNG-WORK SERIOUSLY - WOMENS WORK AND RURAL-DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH INDIA. Economic and Political Weekly. 1989 Apr 29;24(17):WS32-WS37. |
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JEFFERY R, JEFFERY P, LYON A. FEMALE INFANTICIDE AND AMNIOCENTESIS. Social Science & Medicine. 1984;19(11):1207-1212. |
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