Praveen Jha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 199867 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Praveen Jha |
| NOMBRES | Praveen |
| APELLIDO | Jha |
| FIRMA | JHA P |
| AFILIACIONES | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2621-6454 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Damned and Disposable
The practice of manual scavenging continues to persist in contemporary India, highlighting the societal failure to address caste-based occupational hierarchies, associated discrimination and human rights violations. Despite legislative interventions and the active efforts of NGOs to eliminate this practice, significant progress remains elusive. In many cases, the work persists under the guise of sanitation, often carried out without adequate prot…
Agricultural Diversification in India
,
India After 75 Years of Independence
India's economy has undergone significant transformation since independence. This article examines the Indian economy 75 years after independence and highlights key concerns in current times. It begins with a snapshot of the country's economic growth and structure. A key finding is that the benefits of economic growth have not reached a large section of the population. The article goes deeper and analyzes the crisis in the world of work and the a…
Precarious Transitions
Bihar ranks near the bottom among the major states and union territories (UTs) in India with respect to per-capita income and most socioeconomic indicators of well-being. Drawing primarily on field surveys from two socioeconomically contrasting villages, Bharri (Katihar) and Nadwan (Patna), this study investigates the nature of and access to rural non-farm employment (RNFE). 1 The analysis is situated within the broader developmental trajectory o…
Globalgap certification and working conditions of workers on smallholder mango farms in Ghana
Growing Restiveness of the Peasantry in Contemporary India
The global rise of neoliberalism has drastically altered the economic landscape of the peasantry and deepened the agrarian crisis of the countries of the Global South, including India. The roots of India's agrarian crisis can be traced to a very significant transition from dirigiste to a neoliberal macroeconomic policy regime, in 1991, which has continued till date. Its most gruesome manifestation has been high and ever-rising farmers' suicides. …
Surplus Labour in the South at the Current Juncture
The ascendancy of neoliberalism from the 1970s has resulted in a massive crisis of reproduction and expansion of labour reserves globally, in particular in the South, contributing significantly to the current global crisis of capitalism. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has structurally reconfigured the balance of class power everywhere in favour of capital in general, resulting in substantial deterioration in the world of work and workers’ wel…
Changing World of Work and Rural Diversification
In India, as in most of the global South, the capitalist transition during the post-World War II era has unfolded in a manner by which labor absorption has not been commensurate with the growth of output in the non-agricultural sectors. For India, there is strong evidence to suggest that the employment elasticity of output has declined in most sectors during much of the so-called reform period. Furthermore, the transfer of agricultural workers to…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
Remembering Professor Sheila Bhalla (1933-2021)
Labor and Human Capital, Political Economy, Community/Rural/Urban Development
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
Reclaiming Africa
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
Reclaiming Africa
The Changing Village in India
India has a long-standing tradition of village studies. Within this tradition, observation of the same village or villages over long periods of time has a special place, because it highlights the transformation of economic systems and social structures in rural areas. The essays in this volume examine the challenges and outcomes of such longitudinal research from a variety of angles. They address three broad themes: the first concerns the method …
Samson Moyo, 1954–2015
Changing Village in India
Longitudinal studies that have followed the same village or set of villages over time have a special place in the literature on economic and social transformation in rural areas. By bringing together different contributions from the tradition of such studies in India, this book aims to illustrate the range of analytical and policy issues that can be addressed, highlight the problems and potentials of the longitudinal method, and encourage more wo…
In Defense of Intellectual Autonomy
This article is a response to Fred Hendricks’ critique of our most recent statement on the classical and contemporary agrarian questions. The critique, we believe, is a gross misunderstanding of our position on a variety of issues, including populism, nationalism, the character of the peasantry and industrialization. In defence of our intellectual integrity and autonomy, we restate here our basic positions and outline the trajectory of our collec…
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
Expenditure on the Rural Economy in India’s Budgets since the 1950s
The decline in the rate of growth of Indian agriculture in recent years is in large measure due to the low public expenditure priorities accorded to it in the budgets of the Union and State governments. Since the early 1990s in particular, inadequacy of capital formation has been a major factor contributing to the slackened pace of technological change and infrastructural development in Indian agriculture, with adverse consequences for agricultur…
The Twisted Tryst
Guaranteeing Elementary Education
This paper attempts to assess contemporary policies/programmes and financial commitments of the Indian state in providing elementary education to its children, as this, arguably, is among the most important basic needs in any society. As is well-known, in spite of the frequent rhetoric to the contrary, there has been a serious neglect in the public provisioning of this need, and the schooling system in India is nowhere near ready to provide a dec…
Continuity and Change
This paper is an attempt to catalogue and analyse the changes over two decades in the world of agricultural labourers in a backward region in India. It is primarily based on a series of field visits to two villages in Purnia district, located in the north-eastern part of Bihar. Changes in the living conditions of labourers are obviously connected to developments in the rural economy of the region and there are important linkages with developments…
Issues Relating to Employment in India in the Era of Globalisation
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
Issues Relating to Employment in India in the Era of Globalisation
Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity
Continuity and Change
This paper is an attempt to catalogue and analyse the changes over two decades in the world of agricultural labourers in a backward region in India. It is primarily based on a series of field visits to two villages in Purnia district, located in the north-eastern part of Bihar. Changes in the living conditions of labourers are obviously connected to developments in the rural economy of the region and there are important linkages with developments…
Capital and Labour Redefined
Globalgap certification and working conditions of workers on smallholder mango farms in Ghana
Surplus Labour in the South at the Current Juncture
The ascendancy of neoliberalism from the 1970s has resulted in a massive crisis of reproduction and expansion of labour reserves globally, in particular in the South, contributing significantly to the current global crisis of capitalism. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has structurally reconfigured the balance of class power everywhere in favour of capital in general, resulting in substantial deterioration in the world of work and workers’ wel…
Changing World of Work and Rural Diversification
In India, as in most of the global South, the capitalist transition during the post-World War II era has unfolded in a manner by which labor absorption has not been commensurate with the growth of output in the non-agricultural sectors. For India, there is strong evidence to suggest that the employment elasticity of output has declined in most sectors during much of the so-called reform period. Furthermore, the transfer of agricultural workers to…
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
Guaranteeing Elementary Education
This paper attempts to assess contemporary policies/programmes and financial commitments of the Indian state in providing elementary education to its children, as this, arguably, is among the most important basic needs in any society. As is well-known, in spite of the frequent rhetoric to the contrary, there has been a serious neglect in the public provisioning of this need, and the schooling system in India is nowhere near ready to provide a dec…
Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity
Issues Relating to Employment in India in the Era of Globalisation
Capital and Labour Redefined
Continuity and Change
This paper is an attempt to catalogue and analyse the changes over two decades in the world of agricultural labourers in a backward region in India. It is primarily based on a series of field visits to two villages in Purnia district, located in the north-eastern part of Bihar. Changes in the living conditions of labourers are obviously connected to developments in the rural economy of the region and there are important linkages with developments…
Guaranteeing Elementary Education
This paper attempts to assess contemporary policies/programmes and financial commitments of the Indian state in providing elementary education to its children, as this, arguably, is among the most important basic needs in any society. As is well-known, in spite of the frequent rhetoric to the contrary, there has been a serious neglect in the public provisioning of this need, and the schooling system in India is nowhere near ready to provide a dec…
The Twisted Tryst
Expenditure on the Rural Economy in India’s Budgets since the 1950s
The decline in the rate of growth of Indian agriculture in recent years is in large measure due to the low public expenditure priorities accorded to it in the budgets of the Union and State governments. Since the early 1990s in particular, inadequacy of capital formation has been a major factor contributing to the slackened pace of technological change and infrastructural development in Indian agriculture, with adverse consequences for agricultur…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
In Defense of Intellectual Autonomy
This article is a response to Fred Hendricks’ critique of our most recent statement on the classical and contemporary agrarian questions. The critique, we believe, is a gross misunderstanding of our position on a variety of issues, including populism, nationalism, the character of the peasantry and industrialization. In defence of our intellectual integrity and autonomy, we restate here our basic positions and outline the trajectory of our collec…
The Changing Village in India
India has a long-standing tradition of village studies. Within this tradition, observation of the same village or villages over long periods of time has a special place, because it highlights the transformation of economic systems and social structures in rural areas. The essays in this volume examine the challenges and outcomes of such longitudinal research from a variety of angles. They address three broad themes: the first concerns the method …
Samson Moyo, 1954–2015
Changing Village in India
Longitudinal studies that have followed the same village or set of villages over time have a special place in the literature on economic and social transformation in rural areas. By bringing together different contributions from the tradition of such studies in India, this book aims to illustrate the range of analytical and policy issues that can be addressed, highlight the problems and potentials of the longitudinal method, and encourage more wo…
Reclaiming Africa
Reclaiming Africa
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
Remembering Professor Sheila Bhalla (1933-2021)
Labor and Human Capital, Political Economy, Community/Rural/Urban Development
Surplus Labour in the South at the Current Juncture
The ascendancy of neoliberalism from the 1970s has resulted in a massive crisis of reproduction and expansion of labour reserves globally, in particular in the South, contributing significantly to the current global crisis of capitalism. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has structurally reconfigured the balance of class power everywhere in favour of capital in general, resulting in substantial deterioration in the world of work and workers’ wel…
Changing World of Work and Rural Diversification
In India, as in most of the global South, the capitalist transition during the post-World War II era has unfolded in a manner by which labor absorption has not been commensurate with the growth of output in the non-agricultural sectors. For India, there is strong evidence to suggest that the employment elasticity of output has declined in most sectors during much of the so-called reform period. Furthermore, the transfer of agricultural workers to…
Globalgap certification and working conditions of workers on smallholder mango farms in Ghana
Growing Restiveness of the Peasantry in Contemporary India
The global rise of neoliberalism has drastically altered the economic landscape of the peasantry and deepened the agrarian crisis of the countries of the Global South, including India. The roots of India's agrarian crisis can be traced to a very significant transition from dirigiste to a neoliberal macroeconomic policy regime, in 1991, which has continued till date. Its most gruesome manifestation has been high and ever-rising farmers' suicides. …
Damned and Disposable
The practice of manual scavenging continues to persist in contemporary India, highlighting the societal failure to address caste-based occupational hierarchies, associated discrimination and human rights violations. Despite legislative interventions and the active efforts of NGOs to eliminate this practice, significant progress remains elusive. In many cases, the work persists under the guise of sanitation, often carried out without adequate prot…
Agricultural Diversification in India
,
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