R.B.Bhagat

About

Prof Ram B. Bhagat is a Visiting Professor, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi. He also served as Visiting Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, an Hon. Visiting Professor Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.
Earlier he served as Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India until October 2022. He also served as Assistant Professor (Lecturer) and Associate Professor (Reader), Department of Geography, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana). His research interest includes migration and urbanization; environment and sustainable development; demography, ethnicity and politics. He has guided 23 PhD students leading to the award of a PhD degree and 27 students for an M.Phil Degree.

He has been the founder convener of South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants (SALAM) established with support from ILO, IOM and UN-Women at IIPS in collaboration with four South Asian Institutions (https://www.ilo.org/newdelhi/info/public/pr/WCMS_830102/lang--en/index.htm).

Prof. Bhagat has co-edited books namely ‘Climate change, vulnerability and migration’, published by Routledge 2018; ‘Migration and Urban Transition: A Development Perspective’, Routledge 2020, and ‘Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India’, Routledge 2022. He has also authored a book on ‘Population and Political Imagination: Census, Register and Citizenship in India’, published by Routledge in 2022, and co-authored a text book, ‘Researching Internal Migration’, by Routledge 2023. His recent book, 'Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India' is published by Springer in 2025. He also served as Chief Editor of Demography India- An Official Journal of Indian Association for the study of Population (IASP) during 2018-2022.

Employment

• International Institute for Population Sciences Professor and Head
  2003 - 2022

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Publications (74)

• Residential conditions and life satisfaction among elderly urban dwellers in India using LASI survey
  Discover Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-026-02112-9
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• Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India's Urbanisation
  2025 DOI: 10.4324/9781003674894-2
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• Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0
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• Urbanisation and Access to Basic Amenities
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_7
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• Urban Policies and Programmes
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_9
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• Urban Inequality, Segregation and Urban Crime
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_8
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• Rural to Urban Migration: Trends, Patterns and Policy Issues
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_5
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• On Defining Urban and Rural–Urban Classification
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_2
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• Migration and Population Change in Megacities
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_6
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• Levels, Trends and Patterns in India’s Urbanisation
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3181-0_3
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