H Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 44038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0576-1795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unlocking the potential of private forests for carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, and livelihoods in Nepal
Globally, natural forests have declined since 1990, while planted and private forests have expanded by 123 million hectares. With careful species selection, private forests can offer significant environmental and financial benefits. This study collected and analyzed data from 28 private forests (PFs) across two distinct physiographic regions of Nepal, the Terai and Mid-Hills, assessing their ecological characteristics, carbon sequestration potent…
Ambedkar
Inequalities Within Caste and Kin
Republic of Caste
Ambedkar
What Gandhi Says About Ambedkarand Caste
Annihilation of Caste Is Not Annihilation of Hinduism
Caste in Subaltern Studies
Theory of Caste
Gandhi in South Africa
Unjustified Critique from the Right
Ambedkar
Caste and Class in Indian Society and History
Annihilation of Caste in India
Class, Caste, and Social Stratification in India
Max Weber’s distinction between class and status, identifying caste as the latter, is the single most important influence on the mainstream sociology of caste. There is ambiguity in Weber’s conceptualization in the sense that the contrast between class and status is marked by precarity in the long run when stabilization of economic power serves as a condition for the predominance of status usurpations. This ambiguity remains unresolved in Weber’s…
An education-based approach to aid in the prevention of cyberbullying
In this paper, we outline a multi-faceted technological approach for addressing the problem of cyberbullying, focussing on actions which can be taken within educational institutions, for students in elementary and secondary schools. Our proposals include a specific program to introduce in schools, one that will engage students to discourage cyberbullying. This is accompanied by a few distinct approaches for analyzing data within online social net…
The real world of caste in India
The notion of a single hierarchy or multiple hierarchies based on purity and pollution is inadequate to address the reality of caste in India. It fails to recognize the inequality of castes founded on unequal access to land and political power, and the consequent exploitation of the lower castes by the higher castes that was intrinsic to the system. Alternatively, it is argued that the status of a caste in the caste system was determined above al…
Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states
The population of India in 1931 numbered 340 millions, and of these one quarter, over eighty millions, are the subjects of princes. India contains close to two million square miles. Of these two-fifths lie in the princely states. The area of Great Britain is 88,000 square miles, its population 45 millions. In these simple terms the importance of the subject lies revealed
Princely states, peasant protests, and nation building in India
The postcolonial unity of India as a single nation state incorporating the princely states covering two-fifth of the territory and a quarter of the population that remained outside the direct jurisdiction of the colonial state has not been problematized in the colonial and postcolonial historiography of India. This problematization is nonetheless essential in order to understand the internal dynamics of the colonial social formation in India, esp…
Land, Power and Market
Introduction PART ONE: AGRICULTURE AND POPULATION Champaran and Its People The Colonization and Settlement of the Land Agricultural Production Water Utilization The Agricultural System Labour Utilization PART TWO: LAND AND POWER The Lords of the Land The Expansion of the State Masters and Dependants PART THREE: MARKET AND GROWTH The Market for Foodgrains Peasant Export Production The Market for the Factors of Production Surplus Accumulation and I…
Caste, Class and Peasant Agency in Subaltern Studies Discourse
On the basis of empirical evidence from the princely states of Rajasthan, it is argued here that Subaltern Studies discourse about peasants and peasant movements in colonial India is seriously flawed, mainly due to its symptomatic underestimation of the significance of land relations. A close scrutiny of its epistemological assumptions reveals that Subaltern Studies is elite (Brahmanical-bourgeois) ideology and revisionist historiography (anticip…
Ethnic Conflict in Malaysia Revisited
The ethnic paradigm has dominated political science analysis of societal conflict in west Malaysia. This perspective regards socio-political tensions to be a function of the competition between the superordinate and subordinate ethnic groups in the authoritative allocation of values. Such an approach ignores the fact that ethnicity itself is a situational variable, and hence cannot be regarded as a constant in conflict analysis. In adopting such …
Colonialism, Rural Social Structure and Resistance
The Indian Context At the risk of being schematic and simplistic one may suggest that mainstream Sociology and Social Anthropology in India has been dominated, by and large, by two approaches: British structural - functionalism and the Indological approach. The structural - functional approach focussed on small - scale micro - studies of social institutions and cultural practices with no attempt to relate them to the historical context. Moreover,…
Classifying Non-European, pre-colonial social formations
The hypothesis of free peasant production in pre-colonial India as opposed to bonded labour in Medieval Europe as the basis of denying the existence of feudalism in Indian history is critically examined. Apart from theoretical limitations, the validity of free peasant production is found questionable in light of historical evidence on the agrarian structure of Rajasthan, India, underlining the need for more issue oriented regional studies. It is …
More on Marxism in China
The real world of caste in India
The notion of a single hierarchy or multiple hierarchies based on purity and pollution is inadequate to address the reality of caste in India. It fails to recognize the inequality of castes founded on unequal access to land and political power, and the consequent exploitation of the lower castes by the higher castes that was intrinsic to the system. Alternatively, it is argued that the status of a caste in the caste system was determined above al…
Caste, Class and Peasant Agency in Subaltern Studies Discourse
On the basis of empirical evidence from the princely states of Rajasthan, it is argued here that Subaltern Studies discourse about peasants and peasant movements in colonial India is seriously flawed, mainly due to its symptomatic underestimation of the significance of land relations. A close scrutiny of its epistemological assumptions reveals that Subaltern Studies is elite (Brahmanical-bourgeois) ideology and revisionist historiography (anticip…
Kin, caste and kisan movement in Marwar
The basic flaw of conventional sociology in India has been that it studies caste and kinship in isolation from the economic and political structure. Consequently, it fails to understand the basis of unity in kin and caste groups. We have argued that unity between members of the same kin and caste groups depends, in the last analysis, on an identity of economic and political interest. Thus when the kisans in Marwar revolted against the thikanedars…
Princely states, peasant protests, and nation building in India
The postcolonial unity of India as a single nation state incorporating the princely states covering two-fifth of the territory and a quarter of the population that remained outside the direct jurisdiction of the colonial state has not been problematized in the colonial and postcolonial historiography of India. This problematization is nonetheless essential in order to understand the internal dynamics of the colonial social formation in India, esp…
Ethnic Conflict in Malaysia Revisited
The ethnic paradigm has dominated political science analysis of societal conflict in west Malaysia. This perspective regards socio-political tensions to be a function of the competition between the superordinate and subordinate ethnic groups in the authoritative allocation of values. Such an approach ignores the fact that ethnicity itself is a situational variable, and hence cannot be regarded as a constant in conflict analysis. In adopting such …
Classifying Non-European, pre-colonial social formations
The hypothesis of free peasant production in pre-colonial India as opposed to bonded labour in Medieval Europe as the basis of denying the existence of feudalism in Indian history is critically examined. Apart from theoretical limitations, the validity of free peasant production is found questionable in light of historical evidence on the agrarian structure of Rajasthan, India, underlining the need for more issue oriented regional studies. It is …
Role of Offshore Nuclear Power Plants
Americans are demanding more and more electricity with the rate of comsumption doubling in the past 10 yr, and this rate of increase promises to continue. At the same time, society is demanding that the electrical industry generate power that is safe, reliable, environmentally clean, and economical. There are several very good reasons for locating a nuclear plant offshore. In certain states, such as New Jersey, where demand for electrical energy …
Kin, caste and kisan movement in Marwar
The basic flaw of conventional sociology in India has been that it studies caste and kinship in isolation from the economic and political structure. Consequently, it fails to understand the basis of unity in kin and caste groups. We have argued that unity between members of the same kin and caste groups depends, in the last analysis, on an identity of economic and political interest. Thus when the kisans in Marwar revolted against the thikanedars…
More on Marxism in China
Colonialism, Rural Social Structure and Resistance
The Indian Context At the risk of being schematic and simplistic one may suggest that mainstream Sociology and Social Anthropology in India has been dominated, by and large, by two approaches: British structural - functionalism and the Indological approach. The structural - functional approach focussed on small - scale micro - studies of social institutions and cultural practices with no attempt to relate them to the historical context. Moreover,…
Classifying Non-European, pre-colonial social formations
The hypothesis of free peasant production in pre-colonial India as opposed to bonded labour in Medieval Europe as the basis of denying the existence of feudalism in Indian history is critically examined. Apart from theoretical limitations, the validity of free peasant production is found questionable in light of historical evidence on the agrarian structure of Rajasthan, India, underlining the need for more issue oriented regional studies. It is …
Ethnic Conflict in Malaysia Revisited
The ethnic paradigm has dominated political science analysis of societal conflict in west Malaysia. This perspective regards socio-political tensions to be a function of the competition between the superordinate and subordinate ethnic groups in the authoritative allocation of values. Such an approach ignores the fact that ethnicity itself is a situational variable, and hence cannot be regarded as a constant in conflict analysis. In adopting such …
Land, Power and Market
Introduction PART ONE: AGRICULTURE AND POPULATION Champaran and Its People The Colonization and Settlement of the Land Agricultural Production Water Utilization The Agricultural System Labour Utilization PART TWO: LAND AND POWER The Lords of the Land The Expansion of the State Masters and Dependants PART THREE: MARKET AND GROWTH The Market for Foodgrains Peasant Export Production The Market for the Factors of Production Surplus Accumulation and I…
Caste, Class and Peasant Agency in Subaltern Studies Discourse
On the basis of empirical evidence from the princely states of Rajasthan, it is argued here that Subaltern Studies discourse about peasants and peasant movements in colonial India is seriously flawed, mainly due to its symptomatic underestimation of the significance of land relations. A close scrutiny of its epistemological assumptions reveals that Subaltern Studies is elite (Brahmanical-bourgeois) ideology and revisionist historiography (anticip…
Princely states, peasant protests, and nation building in India
The postcolonial unity of India as a single nation state incorporating the princely states covering two-fifth of the territory and a quarter of the population that remained outside the direct jurisdiction of the colonial state has not been problematized in the colonial and postcolonial historiography of India. This problematization is nonetheless essential in order to understand the internal dynamics of the colonial social formation in India, esp…
Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states
The population of India in 1931 numbered 340 millions, and of these one quarter, over eighty millions, are the subjects of princes. India contains close to two million square miles. Of these two-fifths lie in the princely states. The area of Great Britain is 88,000 square miles, its population 45 millions. In these simple terms the importance of the subject lies revealed
The real world of caste in India
The notion of a single hierarchy or multiple hierarchies based on purity and pollution is inadequate to address the reality of caste in India. It fails to recognize the inequality of castes founded on unequal access to land and political power, and the consequent exploitation of the lower castes by the higher castes that was intrinsic to the system. Alternatively, it is argued that the status of a caste in the caste system was determined above al…
An education-based approach to aid in the prevention of cyberbullying
In this paper, we outline a multi-faceted technological approach for addressing the problem of cyberbullying, focussing on actions which can be taken within educational institutions, for students in elementary and secondary schools. Our proposals include a specific program to introduce in schools, one that will engage students to discourage cyberbullying. This is accompanied by a few distinct approaches for analyzing data within online social net…
Class, Caste, and Social Stratification in India
Max Weber’s distinction between class and status, identifying caste as the latter, is the single most important influence on the mainstream sociology of caste. There is ambiguity in Weber’s conceptualization in the sense that the contrast between class and status is marked by precarity in the long run when stabilization of economic power serves as a condition for the predominance of status usurpations. This ambiguity remains unresolved in Weber’s…
Ambedkar
Inequalities Within Caste and Kin
Republic of Caste
Ambedkar
What Gandhi Says About Ambedkarand Caste
Annihilation of Caste Is Not Annihilation of Hinduism
Caste in Subaltern Studies
Theory of Caste
Gandhi in South Africa
Unjustified Critique from the Right
Ambedkar
Caste and Class in Indian Society and History
Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Caste (14 works) · History (11 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (10 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (7 works)