Shamsher Singh

Biographic Data

ID3614738
NAMEShamsher Singh
GIVEN NAMESShamsher
FAMILY NAMESingh
SIGNATURESINGH S
AFFILIATIONSFlame University
ORCID0000-0002-8703-6457
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Caste, class, city and choice

    Open AccessBheemeshwar Reddy A, Prakash Kumar Shukla et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2026References: 58

    This article investigates the interplay between housing segregation and school segregation in major Indian cities, emphasising the broader implications for urban equity. Analysis of UDISE+ and population census data reveals a positive and statistically significant association between residential segregation rooted in caste divisions and the perpetuation of caste-based school segregation in urban India. This residential segregation, stemming from …

  • The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Rural Sanitation Workers in Haryana

    Singh, Shamsher Singh et al.ARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2023

    The Covid-19 pandemic caused significant changes in the world of work. While pandemic-induced lockdowns caused disruptions in the employment conditions and earnings of wage earners in general, Covid-19 had a differentiated impact across different groups of workers (Bonini, Mukherjee, and Roig 2020; Jaga and Ollier- Malaterre 2022; Kalhan, Singh, and Moghe 2020, 2023; Oxfam India 2021; and Sethu and Thangaraj 2021).1 In a multi-country survey on t…

  • The Farmers’ Movement Against Three Agricultural Laws in India

    Singh, Shamsher SinghARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2022

    Political Economy, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management

  • Khaps in the Making of Farmers’ Protests in Haryana

    Open AccessShamsher SinghARTICLESociological Bulletin2022Cited by: 2References: 4

    The farmers’ movement against the three farm-laws in India often brought together conflicting forces and entities to put up a collective fight to safeguard the peasantry. The protests though mainly located at various border points of the national capital penetrated the immediate local communities over the duration. In the state of Haryana, these protests saw an unlikely participant, the khaps, playing an active role in sustaining the agitation. T…

  • Housing and Unfree Labour

    Open AccessShamsher SinghARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2022References: 10

    The phenomenon of unfree labour relations in the Indian countryside continues to remain a matter of concern. While multiple factors contribute to attachment and unfreedom of labour dependency on employers for housing, it is an understudied issue in the existing literature. Drawing on a detailed field study of an agriculturally advanced village in Sri Ganganagar district of north-western state of Rajasthan, this study discusses the role of housing…

  • Residential Segregation and Access to Basic Amenities

    Singh, Shamsher SinghARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2015

  • Housing Shortages in Rural India

    Singh, Shamsher Singh et al.ARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2013

    Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Public Economics

  • Underdevelopment to Developing Economies

    Ray Bromley, Shamsher Singh et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1979Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Underdevelopment to Developing Economies Import Substitution, Trade and Development Get access Underdevelopment to Developing Economies. Edited by S. P. SINGH. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 551. £9.25.)Import Substitution, Trade and Development. By JALEEL AHMAD. (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1978. Distributed by John Wiley, Chichester. Pp. x i+ 128. £12.30.) Ray Bromley Ray Bromley University College of Swansea Search …

  • Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa

    Jere R Behrman, Shamsher SinghARTICLEAfrican Economic History1978

  • The Economics of Underdevelopment

    Michel Beaud, Shamsher Singh et al.REVIEWRevue économique1967

  • The Economics of Underdevelopment

    E J Mishan, Shamsher Singh et al.REVIEWEconomica1960