Paramjit Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paramjit Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paramjit |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Panjab University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4103-586X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
American Imperialism in the Age of Trump
Donald Trump came to power promising to rejuvenate the US economy and reconfigure global geopolitics to sustain the US-led unipolar order captured in his slogan, Make America Great Again. Economically, he has identified tariffs as a key instrument to punish countries perceived to have exploited US market openness. Geopolitically, his strategy has aimed to compel US allies to assume greater burdens while recalibrating relations with emerging power…
The poverty of mainstream economics: A systematic critique
This paper contends that the project of mainstream economics ought to be understood through the totality of its systemic delusion to reveal its failings as a societal science. I argue that this systematic delusion springs from and is sustained by two interrelated systems. I construct a framework of mainstream economics that integrates its ideological foundations with its methodological pillars, which I refer to as system I and system II of the ma…
Racialized agrarian labour regimes in Canada: Punjabi farmworkers’ struggles in the 1980s
This article examines the conditions and struggles of Punjabi farmworkers in Canada during the 1980s, highlighting their resistance to exploitation within a racialized agrarian capitalist system. Focusing on the systemic challenges faced by these workers, the analysis underscores how exploitative practices perpetuated through the capitalist–contractor–corporate food regime shaped the economic and social realities of Punjabi farmworkers. The artic…
Why Venezuela? Oil, power, and ideology
This article examines why Venezuela has emerged as a central target of renewed US imperial intervention in the Western Hemisphere. It advances three interrelated explanations. First, it argues that US policy toward Venezuela is driven by the strategic imperative to consolidate and diversify control over global oil and critical mineral supplies in order to sustain the accumulation strategies of US-based energy and mining corporations and, more imp…
Class Dynamics of Tenancy and Accumulation in Capitalist Agriculture in India
This article underscores the crucial role of tenancy practices in shaping agricultural production dynamics and accumulation/livelihood strategies across different peasant classes in India. By examining tenancy dynamics in Haryana, a key region in India's Green Revolution and forefront of neoliberal reforms, the paper makes two contributions to the literature: First, it contributes to tenancy literature by reinstating Marxist class analysis and se…
Neurocognitive Dysfunctions in People with Concurrent Cannabis Use and Opioid Dependence: A Cross-Sectional, Controlled Study
Cannabis and opioid co-dependence is independently associated with cognitive impairments. We examined neurocognitive dysfunctions in people with concurrent opioid dependence with cannabis dependence (OD+CD) or cannabis use (OD+CU) compared to those with only opioid dependence (OD) and healthy controls (HC). We selected adult participants, any sex, who met the diagnosis of OD ( N = 268), OD+CU ( N = 58), and OD + CD ( N = 115). We recruited 68 edu…
Imperialism and Punjab's Peasantry: Then and Now
Farmers' Attitudes Towards Conventional and Organic Farming in Indian Punjab: A Behavioural Analysis
This study is an attempt to identify the socioeconomic factors that affect farmers' decision-making process regarding the adoption of organic farming. A total of 100 (50 organic and 50 conventional) farmers were interviewed and their demographic, socioeconomic and ecological behaviour differences were studied. The behavioural analysis identified education, environmental concerns and social benefits as the prominent drivers of organic farming, whi…
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture
This paper highlights the relevance of Marxian class analysis to understand the changing nature of agrarian classes under capital‐intensive agriculture. It is a methodological exercise that builds on Patnaik's labour exploitation index (E‐criterion) in three major respects to construct a new index, namely, the Modified Labour Exploitation Index (MEI), to differentiate peasant classes. First and most important, it incorporates the role of mechanis…
Hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater under natural and anthropogenically influenced areas located in Upper Ghaggar River Basin, India
Who Is Responsible for the Climate Crisis? A Perspective from the Global South
This article argues that insistence on adaptation to climate change, popularised by the rich nations of the Global North, is crowding out discussions on mitigation strategies. Mitigation (or degrowth) is central to formulating a fair and collective strategy to tackle the climate crisis at the global scale. In this context, we have calculated the historical cumulative emissions, material footprints, and carbon debt, which are essential prerequisit…
Making sense of agrarian distress and peasant struggles in Punjab
This paper situates peasant struggles in a larger context to unravel the consequences of the accumulated agrarian distress in Punjab. The Punjab peasantry has a rich legacy of resistance against the injustice of the statecraft. The all-inclusive character of the present peasant movement, to engage people across castes, classes, creeds, gender, regions, religions and ethnicity is an outcome of this legacy. Beyond these features, the significance o…
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism
Despite its comprehensiveness, Lenin's classical analysis of the imperialistic nature of capitalism deserves to be considered under a new lens. This article is an attempt to highlight some important features of late imperialism. While Lenin's analysis is the focal point of critical inquiry, the article goes beyond his account to examine some important features of classical theory that remained unaddressed by Lenin. The attempt is to dialectically…
Neoliberal capitalism and misery of small peasantry and agricultural labourers in India
This article argues that, till date, a single paradigm dominates the discourse on agrarian crisis and farmers’ movement against the anti-farmer dictates of the Indian state. There is a pressing need for the organic intellectuals of the masses to build an alternative discourse to examine the agrarian crisis and its roots. To this end, the present article reasons that the neoliberal resolution of the agrarian crisis that the authoritarian-corporate…
Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Gauging Neoliberal Capitalism and the Unipolar World Order
This paper argues that the COVID-19 outbreak is a "nodal point" that will lead to certain irreversible changes in the world economic and political order in the near future. These changes, however, will not only be an outcome of the current health pandemic, but also of the economic and political pandemics that have grown worse over a period of time. This paper identifies two far-reaching consequences of the accumulating pandemics that have the pot…
Alternatives: The economic consequences of Prime Minister Modi
India has been at a precarious crossroad since 2014. Prime Minister Modi, who stands as a symbol of the alliance between Right-wing extremist forces and neoliberal capital, has not only undermined the political freedom of the citizens of this country, but also annihilated the economic sovereignty of the nation. A Right-wing extremist state has tightly controlled the political sphere in order to submit the economic sphere to monopoly capital. The …
Political Economy of Capitalist Development in Punjab's Agriculture
This article addresses the dynamics between three interrelated questions of agrarian transition in Punjab. The first concerns the role and nature of the state and the market mechanism for the transformation of traditional agriculture into its capitalist counterpart, by the development of the productive forces and changes in production structure. The second dwells on the impact of the state-driven capitalism on the production structure of agricult…
Indian Agriculture under Open Economic Regime: Implication for Livelihood and Food Security
Despite impressive performance in terms of GDP growth after the introduction of neoliberal reforms, India continues to be the home of the largest number of hungry people in the world. The present paper is an attempt to understand two interrelated issues in this context: the impact of neoliberal reforms on agricultural development and the implication of an open economic regime on food security in India. The study reveals that the austerity measure…
Another Liberal Approach to Inequality
Immunomodulatory effects of aqueous extract of Tridax procumbens in experimental animals
Anthropo-Demographic Features and Health Care Practices Among the Jaunsaris of Jaunsar-Bawar, Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh
India is a vast country with a population of more than 930 million. The tribal populations of India constitute a significant proportion of India’s total population Three are more than 400 tubal population groups constituting around 8 per cent of India’s total population Most of these tribal populations across the country are faced with similar health conditions accentuated by widespread poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, poor environmental and pe…
A Morphological Study of Structural Relationships Between Cores and Triradii in Finger Dermatoglyphic Loop Patterns
For the present study, 182 Punjabi males and 155 Punjabi females are examined to study the structural relationships between cores and triradii in digital dermatoglyphic loop patterns. Structures of cores and triradii of loops are categorized separately into four types and zero to three value is assigned to these types. For each digit, Pearson’s coefficient of coefficient is calculated and Fisher’s Z-test applied to test the cull hypothesis. Resul…
Alternatives: The economic consequences of Prime Minister Modi
India has been at a precarious crossroad since 2014. Prime Minister Modi, who stands as a symbol of the alliance between Right-wing extremist forces and neoliberal capital, has not only undermined the political freedom of the citizens of this country, but also annihilated the economic sovereignty of the nation. A Right-wing extremist state has tightly controlled the political sphere in order to submit the economic sphere to monopoly capital. The …
Indian Agriculture under Open Economic Regime: Implication for Livelihood and Food Security
Despite impressive performance in terms of GDP growth after the introduction of neoliberal reforms, India continues to be the home of the largest number of hungry people in the world. The present paper is an attempt to understand two interrelated issues in this context: the impact of neoliberal reforms on agricultural development and the implication of an open economic regime on food security in India. The study reveals that the austerity measure…
Making sense of agrarian distress and peasant struggles in Punjab
This paper situates peasant struggles in a larger context to unravel the consequences of the accumulated agrarian distress in Punjab. The Punjab peasantry has a rich legacy of resistance against the injustice of the statecraft. The all-inclusive character of the present peasant movement, to engage people across castes, classes, creeds, gender, regions, religions and ethnicity is an outcome of this legacy. Beyond these features, the significance o…
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism
Despite its comprehensiveness, Lenin's classical analysis of the imperialistic nature of capitalism deserves to be considered under a new lens. This article is an attempt to highlight some important features of late imperialism. While Lenin's analysis is the focal point of critical inquiry, the article goes beyond his account to examine some important features of classical theory that remained unaddressed by Lenin. The attempt is to dialectically…
Political Economy of Capitalist Development in Punjab's Agriculture
This article addresses the dynamics between three interrelated questions of agrarian transition in Punjab. The first concerns the role and nature of the state and the market mechanism for the transformation of traditional agriculture into its capitalist counterpart, by the development of the productive forces and changes in production structure. The second dwells on the impact of the state-driven capitalism on the production structure of agricult…
Neoliberal capitalism and misery of small peasantry and agricultural labourers in India
This article argues that, till date, a single paradigm dominates the discourse on agrarian crisis and farmers’ movement against the anti-farmer dictates of the Indian state. There is a pressing need for the organic intellectuals of the masses to build an alternative discourse to examine the agrarian crisis and its roots. To this end, the present article reasons that the neoliberal resolution of the agrarian crisis that the authoritarian-corporate…
Who Is Responsible for the Climate Crisis? A Perspective from the Global South
This article argues that insistence on adaptation to climate change, popularised by the rich nations of the Global North, is crowding out discussions on mitigation strategies. Mitigation (or degrowth) is central to formulating a fair and collective strategy to tackle the climate crisis at the global scale. In this context, we have calculated the historical cumulative emissions, material footprints, and carbon debt, which are essential prerequisit…
Another Liberal Approach to Inequality
A Morphological Study of Structural Relationships Between Cores and Triradii in Finger Dermatoglyphic Loop Patterns
For the present study, 182 Punjabi males and 155 Punjabi females are examined to study the structural relationships between cores and triradii in digital dermatoglyphic loop patterns. Structures of cores and triradii of loops are categorized separately into four types and zero to three value is assigned to these types. For each digit, Pearson’s coefficient of coefficient is calculated and Fisher’s Z-test applied to test the cull hypothesis. Resul…
Anthropo-Demographic Features and Health Care Practices Among the Jaunsaris of Jaunsar-Bawar, Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh
India is a vast country with a population of more than 930 million. The tribal populations of India constitute a significant proportion of India’s total population Three are more than 400 tubal population groups constituting around 8 per cent of India’s total population Most of these tribal populations across the country are faced with similar health conditions accentuated by widespread poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, poor environmental and pe…
Immunomodulatory effects of aqueous extract of Tridax procumbens in experimental animals
Another Liberal Approach to Inequality
Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Gauging Neoliberal Capitalism and the Unipolar World Order
This paper argues that the COVID-19 outbreak is a "nodal point" that will lead to certain irreversible changes in the world economic and political order in the near future. These changes, however, will not only be an outcome of the current health pandemic, but also of the economic and political pandemics that have grown worse over a period of time. This paper identifies two far-reaching consequences of the accumulating pandemics that have the pot…
Alternatives: The economic consequences of Prime Minister Modi
India has been at a precarious crossroad since 2014. Prime Minister Modi, who stands as a symbol of the alliance between Right-wing extremist forces and neoliberal capital, has not only undermined the political freedom of the citizens of this country, but also annihilated the economic sovereignty of the nation. A Right-wing extremist state has tightly controlled the political sphere in order to submit the economic sphere to monopoly capital. The …
Political Economy of Capitalist Development in Punjab's Agriculture
This article addresses the dynamics between three interrelated questions of agrarian transition in Punjab. The first concerns the role and nature of the state and the market mechanism for the transformation of traditional agriculture into its capitalist counterpart, by the development of the productive forces and changes in production structure. The second dwells on the impact of the state-driven capitalism on the production structure of agricult…
Indian Agriculture under Open Economic Regime: Implication for Livelihood and Food Security
Despite impressive performance in terms of GDP growth after the introduction of neoliberal reforms, India continues to be the home of the largest number of hungry people in the world. The present paper is an attempt to understand two interrelated issues in this context: the impact of neoliberal reforms on agricultural development and the implication of an open economic regime on food security in India. The study reveals that the austerity measure…
Neoliberal capitalism and misery of small peasantry and agricultural labourers in India
This article argues that, till date, a single paradigm dominates the discourse on agrarian crisis and farmers’ movement against the anti-farmer dictates of the Indian state. There is a pressing need for the organic intellectuals of the masses to build an alternative discourse to examine the agrarian crisis and its roots. To this end, the present article reasons that the neoliberal resolution of the agrarian crisis that the authoritarian-corporate…
Making sense of agrarian distress and peasant struggles in Punjab
This paper situates peasant struggles in a larger context to unravel the consequences of the accumulated agrarian distress in Punjab. The Punjab peasantry has a rich legacy of resistance against the injustice of the statecraft. The all-inclusive character of the present peasant movement, to engage people across castes, classes, creeds, gender, regions, religions and ethnicity is an outcome of this legacy. Beyond these features, the significance o…
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism
Despite its comprehensiveness, Lenin's classical analysis of the imperialistic nature of capitalism deserves to be considered under a new lens. This article is an attempt to highlight some important features of late imperialism. While Lenin's analysis is the focal point of critical inquiry, the article goes beyond his account to examine some important features of classical theory that remained unaddressed by Lenin. The attempt is to dialectically…
How to differentiate peasant classes in capital‐intensive agriculture
This paper highlights the relevance of Marxian class analysis to understand the changing nature of agrarian classes under capital‐intensive agriculture. It is a methodological exercise that builds on Patnaik's labour exploitation index (E‐criterion) in three major respects to construct a new index, namely, the Modified Labour Exploitation Index (MEI), to differentiate peasant classes. First and most important, it incorporates the role of mechanis…
Hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater under natural and anthropogenically influenced areas located in Upper Ghaggar River Basin, India
Who Is Responsible for the Climate Crisis? A Perspective from the Global South
This article argues that insistence on adaptation to climate change, popularised by the rich nations of the Global North, is crowding out discussions on mitigation strategies. Mitigation (or degrowth) is central to formulating a fair and collective strategy to tackle the climate crisis at the global scale. In this context, we have calculated the historical cumulative emissions, material footprints, and carbon debt, which are essential prerequisit…
Neurocognitive Dysfunctions in People with Concurrent Cannabis Use and Opioid Dependence: A Cross-Sectional, Controlled Study
Cannabis and opioid co-dependence is independently associated with cognitive impairments. We examined neurocognitive dysfunctions in people with concurrent opioid dependence with cannabis dependence (OD+CD) or cannabis use (OD+CU) compared to those with only opioid dependence (OD) and healthy controls (HC). We selected adult participants, any sex, who met the diagnosis of OD ( N = 268), OD+CU ( N = 58), and OD + CD ( N = 115). We recruited 68 edu…
Imperialism and Punjab's Peasantry: Then and Now
Farmers' Attitudes Towards Conventional and Organic Farming in Indian Punjab: A Behavioural Analysis
This study is an attempt to identify the socioeconomic factors that affect farmers' decision-making process regarding the adoption of organic farming. A total of 100 (50 organic and 50 conventional) farmers were interviewed and their demographic, socioeconomic and ecological behaviour differences were studied. The behavioural analysis identified education, environmental concerns and social benefits as the prominent drivers of organic farming, whi…
Class Dynamics of Tenancy and Accumulation in Capitalist Agriculture in India
This article underscores the crucial role of tenancy practices in shaping agricultural production dynamics and accumulation/livelihood strategies across different peasant classes in India. By examining tenancy dynamics in Haryana, a key region in India's Green Revolution and forefront of neoliberal reforms, the paper makes two contributions to the literature: First, it contributes to tenancy literature by reinstating Marxist class analysis and se…
American Imperialism in the Age of Trump
Donald Trump came to power promising to rejuvenate the US economy and reconfigure global geopolitics to sustain the US-led unipolar order captured in his slogan, Make America Great Again. Economically, he has identified tariffs as a key instrument to punish countries perceived to have exploited US market openness. Geopolitically, his strategy has aimed to compel US allies to assume greater burdens while recalibrating relations with emerging power…
The poverty of mainstream economics: A systematic critique
This paper contends that the project of mainstream economics ought to be understood through the totality of its systemic delusion to reveal its failings as a societal science. I argue that this systematic delusion springs from and is sustained by two interrelated systems. I construct a framework of mainstream economics that integrates its ideological foundations with its methodological pillars, which I refer to as system I and system II of the ma…
Racialized agrarian labour regimes in Canada: Punjabi farmworkers’ struggles in the 1980s
This article examines the conditions and struggles of Punjabi farmworkers in Canada during the 1980s, highlighting their resistance to exploitation within a racialized agrarian capitalist system. Focusing on the systemic challenges faced by these workers, the analysis underscores how exploitative practices perpetuated through the capitalist–contractor–corporate food regime shaped the economic and social realities of Punjabi farmworkers. The artic…
Why Venezuela? Oil, power, and ideology
This article examines why Venezuela has emerged as a central target of renewed US imperial intervention in the Western Hemisphere. It advances three interrelated explanations. First, it argues that US policy toward Venezuela is driven by the strategic imperative to consolidate and diversify control over global oil and critical mineral supplies in order to sustain the accumulation strategies of US-based energy and mining corporations and, more imp…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Agrarian society (5 works) · Development economics (5 works)