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Sheila Bhalla: A Committed Scholar and Activist -Vikas Rawal

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Her writings are indispensable for anyone interested in learning about the history of agrarian change and labour in modern India.

Professor Sheila Bhalla, professor emerita at the School of Social Sciences, JNU, a respected teacher, a labour economist of repute and a committed activist, passed away in Puducherry on September 5.

Canadian by birth, she was introduced to trade union activities early in her life by her father. She studied at the London School of Economics, where she met and married G.S. Bhalla, and decided to make India her home. Sheila and G.S. Bhalla joined the Panjab University in 1969, and after teaching there for about six years, moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she became a member of the faculty of the newly established Centre for Economic Studies and Planning and he joined the Centre for Studies in Regional Development. She retired from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in 1992 and went on to become professor emerita. She was also associated for long with the Institute of Human Development as a visiting professor.

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