Pritam Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pritam Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pritam |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7706-0915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c .1860–1911
In the mid-nineteenth century, the British Empire was facing a sanitation crisis. Epidemics transported through faster steamships imperilled the imperial economy, threatened labour productivity, and restricted the oceanic mobility of its subjects. However, finding a cheap sanitary workforce that could remove disease-carrying night soil (a euphemism for human excreta) on ships and in colonies was challenging. Several colonies were experiencing lab…
Finding historical linkages between India and Myanmar through archaeological and physicochemical analysis of ceramics c. 1st century BCE to 13th century CE
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Schumacher's Small is Beautiful: An Eco-Socialist Perspective
Interrogating the MSP Regime, Farm Laws and Agrarian Future in India
The three new farm laws promulgated by the Government of India in 2020 (now repealed) as agricultural marketing reforms, with the claim that they were aimed at expanding farmers’ marketing choices and increasing their incomes, have triggered massive protests by farmers. These protests have crystallized around two key demands: first, repeal the laws and second, make the minimum support price (MSP) for procuring farmers’ produce a legal right. Give…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Political economy of bioenergy transitions in developing countries: A case study of Punjab, India
Class, nation and religion: Changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India
The Akali Dal is the best organised political party in Punjab and has ruled over Punjab for a longer period than any other political party since the creation of the Punjabi-speaking state in 1966. It articulates aspirations of Punjabi regional nationalism along with trying to protect the interests of the Sikhs as a religious minority in India and abroad. As a part of shaping Punjab's economic future, it deals with the pressures of Indian and glob…
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
Externally Determined Development: Does Indo-China Rivalry Explain Nepal’s Underdevelopment
Employing the political economy approach in the historical context, this article examines the role of Indo-China rivalry in explaining the persistence of underdevelopment in land-locked Nepal. This external dimension of Nepal’s underdevelopment has largely been overlooked in the existing literature. China in the north and India in all the other three directions are two powerful, immediate and rival neighbours of Nepal. Both of them have their var…
Organizing and Managing in the Era of Globalization
Political economy of the ‘third front’ in India
In the last decade and a half, the proposal for a third-front politics in India has gone through cycles ranging from mere theoretical speculation to concrete possibility. After the 22 July 2008 no
The political economy of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the Sikh struggle for identity and political power: Implications for Indian federalism
This paper presents a critique of the essentialist notions of any community as a pacifist or militant community by examining the long history of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the evolution of the Sikh community in the Indian subcontinent. The theoretical premise of the paper is that communities' resort to violence and non-violence is determined by their strategic perspectives to achieve their politico-economic goals and not from any …
Hindu Bias in India's ‘Secular’ Constitution: Probing flaws in the instruments of governance
There has been almost a consensus among the political opinion makers in India that the Constitution of India that came into force in 1950 has been a secular constitution. This paper critiques that consensus and demonstrates that the secularism of India's constitution is Hindu-tainted. It takes up some key articles of the Indian constitution and, by analysing the constitutional debates of the 1940s that went into the making of those articles, high…
Class, nation and religion: Changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India
The Akali Dal is the best organised political party in Punjab and has ruled over Punjab for a longer period than any other political party since the creation of the Punjabi-speaking state in 1966. It articulates aspirations of Punjabi regional nationalism along with trying to protect the interests of the Sikhs as a religious minority in India and abroad. As a part of shaping Punjab's economic future, it deals with the pressures of Indian and glob…
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
Hindu Bias in India's ‘Secular’ Constitution: Probing flaws in the instruments of governance
There has been almost a consensus among the political opinion makers in India that the Constitution of India that came into force in 1950 has been a secular constitution. This paper critiques that consensus and demonstrates that the secularism of India's constitution is Hindu-tainted. It takes up some key articles of the Indian constitution and, by analysing the constitutional debates of the 1940s that went into the making of those articles, high…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Political economy of the ‘third front’ in India
In the last decade and a half, the proposal for a third-front politics in India has gone through cycles ranging from mere theoretical speculation to concrete possibility. After the 22 July 2008 no
The political economy of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the Sikh struggle for identity and political power: Implications for Indian federalism
This paper presents a critique of the essentialist notions of any community as a pacifist or militant community by examining the long history of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the evolution of the Sikh community in the Indian subcontinent. The theoretical premise of the paper is that communities' resort to violence and non-violence is determined by their strategic perspectives to achieve their politico-economic goals and not from any …
Hindu Bias in India's ‘Secular’ Constitution: Probing flaws in the instruments of governance
There has been almost a consensus among the political opinion makers in India that the Constitution of India that came into force in 1950 has been a secular constitution. This paper critiques that consensus and demonstrates that the secularism of India's constitution is Hindu-tainted. It takes up some key articles of the Indian constitution and, by analysing the constitutional debates of the 1940s that went into the making of those articles, high…
The political economy of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the Sikh struggle for identity and political power: Implications for Indian federalism
This paper presents a critique of the essentialist notions of any community as a pacifist or militant community by examining the long history of the cycles of violence and non-violence in the evolution of the Sikh community in the Indian subcontinent. The theoretical premise of the paper is that communities' resort to violence and non-violence is determined by their strategic perspectives to achieve their politico-economic goals and not from any …
Political economy of the ‘third front’ in India
In the last decade and a half, the proposal for a third-front politics in India has gone through cycles ranging from mere theoretical speculation to concrete possibility. After the 22 July 2008 no
Organizing and Managing in the Era of Globalization
Externally Determined Development: Does Indo-China Rivalry Explain Nepal’s Underdevelopment
Employing the political economy approach in the historical context, this article examines the role of Indo-China rivalry in explaining the persistence of underdevelopment in land-locked Nepal. This external dimension of Nepal’s underdevelopment has largely been overlooked in the existing literature. China in the north and India in all the other three directions are two powerful, immediate and rival neighbours of Nepal. Both of them have their var…
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
Class, nation and religion: Changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India
The Akali Dal is the best organised political party in Punjab and has ruled over Punjab for a longer period than any other political party since the creation of the Punjabi-speaking state in 1966. It articulates aspirations of Punjabi regional nationalism along with trying to protect the interests of the Sikhs as a religious minority in India and abroad. As a part of shaping Punjab's economic future, it deals with the pressures of Indian and glob…
Political economy of bioenergy transitions in developing countries: A case study of Punjab, India
Interrogating the MSP Regime, Farm Laws and Agrarian Future in India
The three new farm laws promulgated by the Government of India in 2020 (now repealed) as agricultural marketing reforms, with the claim that they were aimed at expanding farmers’ marketing choices and increasing their incomes, have triggered massive protests by farmers. These protests have crystallized around two key demands: first, repeal the laws and second, make the minimum support price (MSP) for procuring farmers’ produce a legal right. Give…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Schumacher's Small is Beautiful: An Eco-Socialist Perspective
Finding historical linkages between India and Myanmar through archaeological and physicochemical analysis of ceramics c. 1st century BCE to 13th century CE
Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c .1860–1911
In the mid-nineteenth century, the British Empire was facing a sanitation crisis. Epidemics transported through faster steamships imperilled the imperial economy, threatened labour productivity, and restricted the oceanic mobility of its subjects. However, finding a cheap sanitary workforce that could remove disease-carrying night soil (a euphemism for human excreta) on ships and in colonies was challenging. Several colonies were experiencing lab…
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