Notes on Contributors
Ashman Bajwa
teaches economics at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her doctoral research centers on the theme Industrial Restructuring in Globalised India: Impact on the Environmental Quality. Her broader research interests include studying environmental sustainability, particularly within India’s manufacturing sector, and exploring frameworks for assigning responsibility for its causes and consequences at the global and subnational levels.
Anjan Chakrabarti
is Professor of economics, University of Calcutta. Anjan has to his credit numerous books, journal articles, chapters in edited books and handbook. Journal articles include publication in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Rethinking Marxism, MARXISM 21, Review of Radical Political Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Asset Management, Collegium Anthropologicum, Critical Sociology, Psychotherapy and Politics International and Journal of Labor and Society. His recently published books in 2023 are World of the Third and Hegemonic Capital: Between Marx and Freud from Palgrave Macmillan Cham and Rethinking Marxism: India from a Class Perspective from Aakar Books, both coauthored with Anup Dhar. He is the recipient of Dr V K R V Rao Prize in Social Science Research in Economics for the year 2008.
C.P. Chandrashekhar
taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for more than 30 years. He has also served as Visiting Senior Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Executive Editor of Deccan Herald Group of Publications Bangalore; Consultant, Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, Ministry of Industry, Govt. of India, and Research Associate, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. Besides articles in academic journals, his publications include authored/co-authored books titled Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia (2001), The Market that Failed: Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in India (2004), Demonetisation Decoded: A Critique of India’s Currency Experiment (2017) and Karl Marx’s Capital and the Present: Four Essays (2018).
Surajit Mazumdar
is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research has focused on the Political Economy of Indian Development, with special focus on the Corporate Sector, Industrialization, and on Globalization and its impact on the Indian Economy. Two monographs and almost 50 papers have been the result.
Sirisha C. Naidu
is Associate Professor of Economics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Race, Ethnic, and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). Her research focuses on feminist political economy analyses of agrarian change and ecological shifts, environmental justice, the interwoven tapestry of productive and reproductive labor in the Global South, and informal and precarious work in the global economy.
Utsa Patnaik
taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, from 1973 to 2010. Her main research interests lie in the areas of the agrarian question both in history and at present, colonialism and imperialism, and the origins and estimation of poverty. These issues have been explored in over one hundred academic papers. She has also authored several books, including Peasant Class Differentiation – A Study in Method (1987), The Long Transition (1999) and The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays (2007). Her last two books (along with Prabhat Patnaik) are A Theory of Imperialism (2016) and Capital and Imperialism (2021). Her most recent book, Exploring the Poverty Question, is set to be published in 2025.
Prabhat Patnaik
taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011. Prof Patnaik has published several books, including Lenin and Imperialism: An Appraisal of Theories and Contemporary Reality (1986), Economics and Egalitarianism (1991), Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), Retreat to Unfreedom: Essays on the Emerging World Order (2003), The Value of Money (2008), Re-Envisioning Socialism (2011) and Beyond Liberalism (2024).
Ronki Ram
is Professor Emeritus at Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh. He served as Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chair Professor of Political Science at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, visiting Professor at University of Ladakh, and member of the State Higher Education Council, UT Chandigarh. He also served as Dean (Faculty of Arts), PU, Visiting Professor (Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences), University of Wolverhampton (UK), ICCR Chair Professor of India Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands and Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, and member, Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU). Prof. Ram has published extensively on social mobility, identity politics and politics of difference in journals like Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Survey, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Journal of Punjab Studies, South Asian Survey, and EPW among others.
Smriti Rao
is Professor of Economics at Assumption University, Worcester, USA. Her research interests lie in feminist political economy analyses of work, with a focus on India. She is especially interested in expanding our understanding of work to include the labor of ‘life making’ that many economic analyses continue to minimize. She is also very interested in understanding internal and international movements of people along the trafficking-migration continuum.
Aryaman Roy
is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Techno India University, West Bengal and a PhD scholar at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. His research interests involve Marxian Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy and History of Economics Thought.
Balwinder Singh Tiwana
taught Political Economy of Development, Classical Political Economy and Economics of Agriculture in Punjabi University, Patiala. He worked as Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Punjabi University, Patiala. He was Head of the Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala. He is Signatory of Indian Political Economy Association. He was Vice Chair of World Association for Political Economy and Member of Executive Committee of Indian Society of Labour Economics. He published large number of papers in National and International Journals and authored and co-authored many books. He is social activist and has been a part of many pro-people agitations.
Paramjit Singh
is an assistant Professor of Economics at Panjab University, Chandigarh (India). His research interests include international and Indian political economy. He has published around 40 research articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Critical Sociology, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Studies in Political Economy, Economic and Political Weekly, World Review of Political Economy, Journal of African and Asian Studies, and International Critical Thought, among others. He also edited the volume Global Political Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Capitalism (2021).
V. Upadhyay
is former Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi and SK Dey Chair Professor, ISS, New Delhi. He has earlier taught at IIT Kanpur, India; University of New Brunswick, Canada; University of PEI, Canada; McMaster University, Canada; and University of Rajasthan, India. His research interests are in the areas of development economics and political economy. He has published about a hundred research papers in reputed Indian and international journals. He has authored/co-edited several books on the subjects of Indian economy and political economy, including From Statism to Neo-Liberalism: The Development Process in India (2012), Essays on Distribution, World Systems, Ecology, and Left Politics (2015), Plutocracy, Cronyism and Populism: Facets of Neoliberalism in India (2017); Global Political Economy: A critique of contemporary capitalism (2021). He is an authorised signatory of the Indian Political Economy Association and a former member of the Steering Council of the World Association of Political Economy.