Sinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 21340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinha |
| SIGNATURE | SINHA |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7578-9809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is the ‘colonial’ in anticolonialism the same as in ‘postcolonialism’ and ‘decolonialism’? And (how) does it matter
Adnrew Smith contends that postcolonial and decolonial thought have eschewed materialist analysis in favour of a preoccupation with language and epistemology. He suggests that there are materialist tendencies in anticolonial thought that better explain these pre-occupations, while also providing resources to confront contemporary capitalist imperialism. In response, I note that anticolonial thought contains both materialist and culturalist resour…
Strong leaders’, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi moment in historical context
Histories of Power', the 'Universalization of Capital', and India's Modi Moment: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Capitalist development in India, and the politics of those who are its immediate victims, defies the main varieties of postcolonial theory and Marxism that are today in contentious debate, in which postcolonial theory is identified with culture and particularity, and Marxism with political economy and universalism. Rejecting this framing, I draw attention to recently translated works by Marx, debates in agrarian political economy, and writings th…
Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate
This article provides an introduction to the special issue, 'Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?' It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both collaborative and antagonistic. The authors argue that far from materializing the end of either postcolonial theory or of Marxist approaches, these exchanges have been productive and have underscored the co…
On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India
This chapter discusses the mobilization of transnational solidarity for the wrongfully jailed Binayak Sen and the politics of a Delhi-based Residents’ Welfare Association, it problematizes Chatterjee’s trifurcated conceptualization of the political domain into civil society, political society, and an outside beyond the boundaries of political society. It is a perspective, the chapter claims, that fails to capture the actual political fault lines …
Transnationality and the Indian Fishworkers' Movement, 1960s-2000
This paper contributes to the literature on 'transnational agrarian movements' by drawing upon the 'fishworkers' movement' in the 1960s in India's Kerala state, and the subsequent role it played in the formation of national and transnational networks. Against the prevailing teleology of movement network organization from local to national to transnational, I suggest that transnational and transregional flows produce the local and national as spac…
Colonializing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism - by Mridula Mukherjee
Lineages of the Developmentalist State: Transnationality and Village India, 1900-1965
On 2 October 1952, marking Gandhi's fourth birth anniversary after his assassination in 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of postcolonial India, launched the Community Development (CD) Programs. Dedicating the programs to Gandhi's memory allowed Nehru to claim symbolic legitimacy for them. At the same time, this centerpiece of Nehruvian policy in the Indian countryside was heavily interventionist, billed as 'the method ... through …
Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia Edited by Gunnel Cederlof and K. Sivaramakrishnan
The ‘other’ Agrarian transition? Structure, institutions and agency in sustainable rural development
This essay reviews some of the new literature on the transition to sustainable rural development (SRD). By considering various accounts of environmental degradation, its links with poverty and aspects of the agenda for SRD, the essay notes an ambiguity regarding the role of the state, which is held, in this literature, as culpable for environmental degradation, as well as given a substantial role, implicitly or explicitly, in making the transitio…
The 'new traditionalist' discourse of Indian environmentalism
In this article we identify 'new traditionalism' as the discourse that dominates the historiography of the Indian environment. We challenge the new traditionalist equation of 'forests' and 'nature', their assertion that 'traditional' agriculture was ecologically balanced, and was practised by self-contained communities, and their claims that women, forest dwellers and peasants were primarily the keepers of a special conservationist ethic. We next…
The 'new traditionalist' discourse of Indian environmentalism
In this article we identify 'new traditionalism' as the discourse that dominates the historiography of the Indian environment. We challenge the new traditionalist equation of 'forests' and 'nature', their assertion that 'traditional' agriculture was ecologically balanced, and was practised by self-contained communities, and their claims that women, forest dwellers and peasants were primarily the keepers of a special conservationist ethic. We next…
Strong leaders’, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi moment in historical context
Lineages of the Developmentalist State: Transnationality and Village India, 1900-1965
On 2 October 1952, marking Gandhi's fourth birth anniversary after his assassination in 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of postcolonial India, launched the Community Development (CD) Programs. Dedicating the programs to Gandhi's memory allowed Nehru to claim symbolic legitimacy for them. At the same time, this centerpiece of Nehruvian policy in the Indian countryside was heavily interventionist, billed as 'the method ... through …
Transnationality and the Indian Fishworkers' Movement, 1960s-2000
This paper contributes to the literature on 'transnational agrarian movements' by drawing upon the 'fishworkers' movement' in the 1960s in India's Kerala state, and the subsequent role it played in the formation of national and transnational networks. Against the prevailing teleology of movement network organization from local to national to transnational, I suggest that transnational and transregional flows produce the local and national as spac…
Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate
This article provides an introduction to the special issue, 'Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?' It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both collaborative and antagonistic. The authors argue that far from materializing the end of either postcolonial theory or of Marxist approaches, these exchanges have been productive and have underscored the co…
Histories of Power', the 'Universalization of Capital', and India's Modi Moment: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Capitalist development in India, and the politics of those who are its immediate victims, defies the main varieties of postcolonial theory and Marxism that are today in contentious debate, in which postcolonial theory is identified with culture and particularity, and Marxism with political economy and universalism. Rejecting this framing, I draw attention to recently translated works by Marx, debates in agrarian political economy, and writings th…
The 'new traditionalist' discourse of Indian environmentalism
In this article we identify 'new traditionalism' as the discourse that dominates the historiography of the Indian environment. We challenge the new traditionalist equation of 'forests' and 'nature', their assertion that 'traditional' agriculture was ecologically balanced, and was practised by self-contained communities, and their claims that women, forest dwellers and peasants were primarily the keepers of a special conservationist ethic. We next…
The ‘other’ Agrarian transition? Structure, institutions and agency in sustainable rural development
This essay reviews some of the new literature on the transition to sustainable rural development (SRD). By considering various accounts of environmental degradation, its links with poverty and aspects of the agenda for SRD, the essay notes an ambiguity regarding the role of the state, which is held, in this literature, as culpable for environmental degradation, as well as given a substantial role, implicitly or explicitly, in making the transitio…
Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia Edited by Gunnel Cederlof and K. Sivaramakrishnan
Colonializing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism - by Mridula Mukherjee
Lineages of the Developmentalist State: Transnationality and Village India, 1900-1965
On 2 October 1952, marking Gandhi's fourth birth anniversary after his assassination in 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of postcolonial India, launched the Community Development (CD) Programs. Dedicating the programs to Gandhi's memory allowed Nehru to claim symbolic legitimacy for them. At the same time, this centerpiece of Nehruvian policy in the Indian countryside was heavily interventionist, billed as 'the method ... through …
Transnationality and the Indian Fishworkers' Movement, 1960s-2000
This paper contributes to the literature on 'transnational agrarian movements' by drawing upon the 'fishworkers' movement' in the 1960s in India's Kerala state, and the subsequent role it played in the formation of national and transnational networks. Against the prevailing teleology of movement network organization from local to national to transnational, I suggest that transnational and transregional flows produce the local and national as spac…
On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India
This chapter discusses the mobilization of transnational solidarity for the wrongfully jailed Binayak Sen and the politics of a Delhi-based Residents’ Welfare Association, it problematizes Chatterjee’s trifurcated conceptualization of the political domain into civil society, political society, and an outside beyond the boundaries of political society. It is a perspective, the chapter claims, that fails to capture the actual political fault lines …
Histories of Power', the 'Universalization of Capital', and India's Modi Moment: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Capitalist development in India, and the politics of those who are its immediate victims, defies the main varieties of postcolonial theory and Marxism that are today in contentious debate, in which postcolonial theory is identified with culture and particularity, and Marxism with political economy and universalism. Rejecting this framing, I draw attention to recently translated works by Marx, debates in agrarian political economy, and writings th…
Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate
This article provides an introduction to the special issue, 'Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?' It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both collaborative and antagonistic. The authors argue that far from materializing the end of either postcolonial theory or of Marxist approaches, these exchanges have been productive and have underscored the co…
Strong leaders’, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi moment in historical context
Is the ‘colonial’ in anticolonialism the same as in ‘postcolonialism’ and ‘decolonialism’? And (how) does it matter
Adnrew Smith contends that postcolonial and decolonial thought have eschewed materialist analysis in favour of a preoccupation with language and epistemology. He suggests that there are materialist tendencies in anticolonial thought that better explain these pre-occupations, while also providing resources to confront contemporary capitalist imperialism. In response, I note that anticolonial thought contains both materialist and culturalist resour…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Agrarian society (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Geography (3 works)