Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC)

Analysis of Marine Fish Production in Odisha with Special Reference to Ganjam District

Ranjan Kumar Nayak — 2026-01-01

In India, marine fisheries are crucial to the creation of jobs, coastal livelihoods, and regional economic growth. Using 24 years of secondary data (2000–01 to 2023–24), the current study examines the development and trend of marine fish production in Odisha with particular reference to Ganjam district. To investigate production trends by district, the study uses quantitative methods such growth rate analysis, Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), decadal growth analysis, moving averages, ANOVA, and correlation analysis. The findings show that Odisha's overall marine fish production rose by almost 87% throughout the course of the research, demonstrating consistent sectoral growth. The results, with particular reference to Ganjam district, reveal an impressive rise of almost 253%, the greatest of the coastal districts, with a CAGR of 5.64%, far higher than the state average (2.77%). While correlation analysis reveals a close relationship between Ganjam's production trends and those of other major fishing districts, the ANOVA results suggest statistically significant differences in production between districts. The study comes to the conclusion that Ganjam's quick development has been facilitated by advancements in fishing infrastructure, mechanization, institutional support, and fisheries policies. In order to promote sustainable marine fisheries development, the report emphasizes the significance of district-level fisheries planning and recommends specific infrastructure, technology, and cooperative strengthening strategies.

The North–South Divide in India

Sweeyam Chakraborty — 2026-01-01

The idea of ‘North-South Divide’ first emerged globally in the Brandt Report (1980), which articulated a developmental boundary between the industrialised North and the agrarian South. The present study attempts to put the Indian sub-continent into this framework. Although regional income disparities have steadily increased over the last four and a half decades inciting a wide discourse of studies, a general consensus regarding the underlying dynamics of convergence across Indian states has not yet been achieved. This paper examines and compares growth trajectories of Indian states and union territories over the period of 1980 to 2024 based on Sigma Convergence, Beta Convergence (conditional and unconditional) and a Growth-Volatility Analysis. Results indicate that sigma divergence is persistent over the years, i.e., there has been a sustained increase in the dispersion of per capita income. No statistically significant evidence of unconditional beta convergence was found. This means that initial income levels alone do not explain subsequent growth performance. However, panel fixed effects estimates, that take into account time-invariant state characteristics and common shocks, revealed a statistically significant negative relation between growth and lagged income. This shows conditional convergence and hence it can be said that Indian states might be converging towards their own distinct, structurally determined steady states instead of moving towards a common national equilibrium. The growth volatility analysis fails to establish a systematic relationship between average growth and instability across states but further descriptive statistics indicate that economically stronger states mostly exhibit lower fluctuations compared to their lagging counterparts. In a nutshell, this paper puts persistent structural heterogeneity into the convergence perspective of Indian states. This has implications for policy-making as well – fiscal transfers tied to state-level metrics based on capacity building, infrastructural development and shock vulnerability reduction; shifting from a one-size-fits-all model to a differentiated model based on regional economic structure and expanding supply chains of core industries to periphery regions to infuse developmental spillover.

Morphology and Cultural Interpretation of Baigani Kinship Terminology

Niteenkumar Janbaji Ramteke — 2026-01-01

Baigani is one of the endangered languages of the Baiga community, a PVTG of Central India. In this paper, an attempt is made to explore the structure and content of kinship terms among the Baiga tribe, to identify similarities with the Indo-Aryan languages, i.e., Hindi and Marathi. Kinship terminology has been an interesting phenomenon for both Linguistics and Anthropology. Based on the ethnographic field work of the 23 Baiga villages of Pushparajgarh block of Annuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, and applying the tools and techniques of Questionnaire and semi-structured interview, observation, and transcription, the interdisciplinary paper found out some interesting results about the cultural Interpretation of the morphology of the Baigani language, which has bridged the gap between linguistics and Anthropology. The morphology of the Baiga language supported the Anthropological analysis of its classificatory and descriptive Kinship terminology, corroborating earlier research that, like Tamil Kallar and the Dravidian communities of South India, bilateral cross-cousin marriage is prevalent in the Baiga community.