Staff Profiles

Pritam's main areas of teaching interest and expertise are: development economics, environmental economics, comparative economic systems and competing economic paradigms. Pritam has developed new modules in these fields both at UG and PG levels while at Oxford Brookes University. Pritam takes keen interest in pedagogic theory and practice. In particular, he has explored the dimensions of equal opportunities in teaching concerning curriculum, teaching methodologies and assessment of student performance. He won internal funding to undertake two pedagogic research projects during 2006-07. He is on the editorial board of Brookes eJournal of Teaching and Learning and the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and has co-edited (with M Pearl) a book on pedagogic research (Equal Opportunities in the Curriculum, Oxford, 1999). He was invited to give the key note address at an international conference on Teaching Methodologies in India and Abroad at Baba Farid University, Bathinda, Punjab in India in January 2010 where he spoke on ‘Teaching methodogies: some lessons from the comparative experience of teaching in India and the UK'. Pritam was an external advisor on the validation panels for economics and business degrees at Coventry University and the City University of Birmingham. He is on the Managing Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics (UK) which endeavours to promote pluralism and diversity in economics teaching and research in the UK and abroad.

Supervision

Pritam is actively involved in doctoral student supervision as Director of Studies with having supervised three PhDs to successful completion and currently supervising as Director of Studies seven PhD students including one from Burgundy Business School, Dijon and one by publication route. Pritam's research interests include theoretical and empirical work in the areas of migration, poverty reduction, sustainability and human development. He is also interested in supervising in the areas of rising importance of BRICS economies, federalism and development, and political economy of human rights. He has externally examined PhDs for universities in the UK, Ireland, India and Pakistan. He is also on the supervisory/examination committee of a Phd student at the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Brunswick, USA.

 

Details of PhD completions:

 

1. Michael Ochurub, Education and Development in Namibia Post Independence Period, 2001 (as a supervisor).
2. V.K. Mensah, The Impact of Culture and Government Policies on Ghana's Economic Development, 2008 (as the Director of Studies).
3. Lok Nath Bhusal, ‘The Underestimation of Poverty in the Low-income Countries and its Policy Implications for Social and Economic Security (with case study from Nepal)', January 2012 (as the Director of Studies).

Pritam leads the research cluster on Environmental and Development Economics. Pritam's work is currently focussed on two main areas: one, the sustainability implications of the spatial shift taking place in global capitalism, and two, Indian capitalism with emphasis on decentralisation and human rights and with special reference to Punjab. His two recent books Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab economy (London/New York: Routledge, 2008; Special Indian Reprint 2009), and Economy, Culture and Human Rights: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond (Delhi: Three Essays Collective, 2010) have received critical acclaim as path breaking works of scholarship. Both the books are being translated in other languages. His book Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy brings together ground breaking methodological approaches and field level data to add new dimensions to the understanding of federal modes of governance and the development process, particularly in India. As one reviewer (in Economic and Political Weekly) has commented, ‘The book is one of those rare academic publications which have the potential to make history'. His Economy, Culture and Human Rights: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond marshals diverse theory and evidence drawn from economics, political science, moral philosophy, and history to make a case for understanding human rights as intrinsically important rather than simply as a means to achieve a given set of economic and political goals. This book was the subject of over half an hour  TV interview with Pritam on Sky/Sikh Channel. His edited books Punjabi Identity in a Global Context (with S Thandi) (Oxford University Press, 1999, Reprint 2015) and Equal Opportunities in the Curriculum (with M Pearl) (Oxford Brookes University, 1999) were pioneering works in their respective fields. His research articles and reviews have appeared in various journals includingCommonwealth and Comparative Politics, Contemporary South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, International Journal of Green Economics, International Journal of Punjab Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance and Third World Quarterly.

 

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Books

• Singh P, Economy, culture and human rights: turbulence in Punjab, India and beyond, Three Essays Collective (2010)
  ISBN: 9788188789627
  Abstract Why do people get moved to protest against some violations of human rights and not others? How can the culture of human rights be made inclusive? This book offers insights into these questions by tracing the dialectical connection between economic interests and human rights. It offers a unique understanding of the contestation over the application of human rights in the global context. Reflection on personal experience of violation is combined with extensive fieldwork in India and Punjab to offer an enriched theoretical understanding of what is at stake in human rights thinking and practice.
• Singh P, Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab economy - special Indian reprint edition, Routledge (2009)
  
• Singh P, Federalism, nationalism and development: India and the Punjab economy, Routledge (2008)
  ISBN: 9780415456661
  Abstract This book throws new light on the study of India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process. It focuses on one of the seemingly paradoxical cases of impressive development and sharp federal conflicts that have been witnessed in the state of Punjab. The book concentrates on the federal structure of the Indian polity and it examines the evolution of the relationship between the centre and the state of Punjab, taking into account the emergence of Punjabi Sikh nationalism and its conflict with Indian nationalism. Providing a template to analyse regional imbalances and tensions in national economies with federal structures and competing nationalisms, this book will not only be of interest to researchers on South Asian Studies, but also to those working in the fields of politics, political economy, geography and development.

Journal articles

• Bumacov V, Astha A, Singh P, 'Credit scoring : a historic recurrence in microfinance'
  Strategic Change 26 (6) (2017) pp.543-554
  ISSN: 1086-1718 eISSN: 1099-1697
  Abstract Microfinance is a new credit segment that can benefit greatly from the advantages the credit scoring technique can offer. In the developing countries even the professionals are not familiar with the technique of credit scoring and many microfinance institutions that serve millions of borrowers do not consider using it. Since the credit scoring technique did not evolve fast enough to meet the needs of microfinance, its adoption by microfinance institutions is slow and resembles more a historic recurrence rather than a new historical stage. We outline a conceptual framework of credit scoring that enables the use of this technique in micro lending, avoiding the pitfalls of the past.Website 
• Bumacov V, Ashta A, Singh P, 'Poverty scoring and financial inclusion of the poor'
  Strategic Change 26 (6) (2017) pp.555-562
  ISSN: 1086-1718 eISSN: 1099-1697
  Abstract The use of poverty scoring is associated with increased outreach towards poor borrowers only in nonprofit microfinance institutions while, in for-profit microfinance institutions, poverty scoring is associated with increased availability of financing. Poverty scoring allows for-profit microfinance institutions to borrow funds from social investors in addition to funds borrowed from the market. As long as these social funds do not substitute market funds used in financing poor microborrowers, the share of poor clients served increases, so does financial inclusion of the poor.Website 
• Singh P, 'Aam Aadmi Party as Third Player in Punjab Politics'
  Economic and Political Weekly 52 (3) (2017)
  ISSN: 0012-9976 eISSN: 2349-8846
  Abstract Despite huge organisational and political blunders, the Aam Aadmi Party is still a substantial player in Punjab's electoral politics. It does not have the organisational network that the Akali Dal has nor a popular leader such as the Congress' Amarinder Singh. However, its emergence in the state has brought to the fore the issue of regional versus Delhi-centric control of party decisions and politics
   
  Website 
• Singh P, 'The origins, influence, suppression and resilience of the Maoist/Naxalite movement in India: 1967– present'
  Socialist History 50 (2016) pp.85-104
  ISSN: 0969-4331
  Abstract The Naxalite movement, inspired by Mao Tse-tung thought, erupted in India in May 1967 in the form of peasant occupation of landlords’ land in the Naxalbari bloc of the West Bengal state. Within months, the influence of the movement spread to rural areas of many other states in India. This culminated in another split in India’s communist movement with the launch of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in April 1969. The movement caught the imagination of idealistic youth and students in many urban areas. The Indian state managed to crush the movement militarily by the mid 1970s. However, it soon resurfaced and developed such a strong base among the tribal communities in India that in 2006, the Indian prime minister characterised it as India’s single biggest internal security threat. It stands in limbo at the moment – it does not have the capability to overthrow the Indian state but has a sufficient military and social base to resist the state’s attempts to crush it.Website 
• Asongu S, Singh P, Le Roux S, 'Fighting Software Piracy: Some Global Conditional Policy Instruments'
  Journal of Business Ethics 152 (1) (2016) pp.175-189
  ISSN: 0167-4544
  Abstract This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries over the period 1994–2010, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the effectiveness of tools against piracy may consistently decrease or increase simultaneously with the increasing levels of software piracy. Hence, blanket policies against software piracy are unlikely to succeed unless they are contingent on initial levels of software piracy and tailored differently across countries with low, medium and high levels of software piracy. Our findings indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties, bilateral treaties, World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties, money supply and respect for the rule of law have negative effects on software piracy. Equitably distributed wealth reduces software piracy, and the tendency not to indulge in software piracy because of equitably distributed wealth increases with the increasing software piracy levels. Hence, the negative degree of responsiveness of software piracy to changes in income levels is an increasing function of software piracy. Moreover, the relationships between policy instruments and software piracy display various patterns: U-shape, Kuznets-shape, S-shape and negative thresholds. A negative threshold represents negative estimates with the increasing negative magnitude throughout the conditional distributions of software piracy. We also discuss the policy implications of our study.Website 
• Singh P, Singh N, 'The Lesser Child: A Study of the Interlinkages between Child Sex Ratios and Discrimination against the Girl Child in Punjab'
  Journal of Punjab Studies 22 (2) (2015) pp.287-317
  ISSN: 0971-5223
  Abstract This paper seeks to investigate whether improvement in sex ratios translate into better health and nutritional outcomes for the girl child through an in depth study of these indictors in the region of Punjab. In recent years, both the child and overall sex ratios have shown improvement in the state. We analyze whether this improvement has narrowed gender discrimination against the girl child in Punjab, through an empirical investigation of the indicators of childcare and well-being, using National Family Health Survey data. We also evaluate the cash transfer schemes being implemented for the welfare of the girl child in Punjab. Our analysis shows that in most dimensions of childcare there continues to be a bias against the girl child, with little improvement over time. For cash transfer schemes our analysis reveals that these are unimaginative, arbitrary and rigid. Eligible households have to comply with many regulations to benefit. Thus, in spite of progressive intentions behind these schemes and even some marginal positive outcomes, very few households have benefited. We recommend, therefore, that in spite of marginal benefits of transitory schemes such as cash transfers, what is needed from a medium-term and long-term perspective is a mix of gender-aware cultural initiatives, educational incentives and institutional policy programs that can grapple with the complexity of economic, social and cultural factors that impinge upon the well-being of the girl child in Punjab. Website 
• Singh P, 'Institutional Communalism in India'
  Economic and Political Weekly 50 (28) (2015)
  ISSN: 0012-9976 eISSN: 2349-8846
  Abstract The fight against institutional communalism in India alerts us to a challenge bigger than merely inflicting electoral defeats on Hindu communal parties and organisations. Even if such parties are defeated electorally, institutional Hindu communalism remains pervasive in varying degrees in India's Constitution, judiciary, civil services, electoral and parliamentary institutions, security forces, prisons, academia, media, corporate business, and even non-governmental organisations, it will continue as a social, cultural and politico-economic force to disadvantage the lives of minority communities in India.Website 
• Singh P, 'Towards an Understanding of the Spiritual Economy of the Golden Temple in India'
  English Studies in Humanities, Linguistics and Pedagogy x (2014) pp.50-64
  Abstract This article attempts to stretch the boundaries of the discourse of political economy, social theory, religious and Punjab studies by deploying the concept of spiritual economy in advancing the understanding of the politico-economic dimensions of a key religious shrine in the Indian sub continent. Amritsar’s Golden Temple as a holy shrine is known as a site of sacred pilgrimage in the cultural universe of many communities in the sub-continent and diaspora. This article expands on the religious significance of the Golden Temple by exploring the site also as an economic institution in the daily lives of many communities in the region. By capturing the exalted religious-economic importance of the place, the article aims to add to the understanding of the site as a place of political contestation and of many conflicts in the history of the evolution of the Sikh community.
• Bhusal L, Singh P, 'Austerity, Welfare State and Eco-Socialism with special reference to the United Kingdom'
  Economic and Political Weekly 49 (39) (2014) pp.111-118
  ISSN: 0012-9976 eISSN: 2349-8846
  Abstract

  In the clash between austerity and Keynesian stimulus paradigms in the advanced capitalist economies in general and the United Kingdom in particular, this paper argues that in the era of global climate change and global warming, merely proposing stimulus in opposition to austerity is flawed. In contrast, the paper proposes that an eco-socialist perspective with emphasis on green economy, sustainability and equality is of historic importance and relevance.

• Singh P, 'The competing theories of development and underdevelopment'
  LIMES Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2014 (3) (2014) pp.117-146
  ISSN: 1820-0869
  Abstract

  This paper is an attempt to contribute to an eco-socialist critique of the widely prevailing theoretical perspectives on development with a focus on one aspect: the competing explanations of underdevelopment in the Third World and of the poverty resulting from that underdevelopment. The aspect of inequality between the developed capitalist economies and developing capitalist economies will also be examined from the viewpoint of its linkages with poverty in the Third World. Three main perspectives will be considered: one, the traditional one that keeps the discussion on poverty, underdevelopment and inequality within the framework of a capitalist economy; two, the Marxian one as a critique of capitalism and third, the Green one that focusses on the natural environment as a way of dealing with issues of poverty and underdevelopment.

• Bumacov V, Ashta A, Singh P, 'The Use of Credit Scoring in Microfinance Institutions and Their Outreach'
  Strategic Change 23 (7-8) (2014) pp.401-413
  ISSN: 1086-1718 eISSN: 1099-1697
  Abstract
  Credit scoring contributes to a faster growth in outreach of microfinance institutions — better
  financial inclusion is offered to more low-income beneficiaries. The use of credit scoring has
  great potential for diminishing inefficiencies related to microloan appraisal procedures, which
  are burdensome due to high information asymmetry and ignorance.
   
  The benefits of credit scoring come with a financial cost — the development, implementation,
  and maintenance of the scoring tool — and with a social cost — the good borrowers who are screened out by the scoring tool.
   
  Credit scoring by increasing financial inclusion expands developmental opportunities in
  emerging economies.
  Website 
• Singh P, 'Class, nation and religion: changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India'
  Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 52 (1) (2014) pp.55-77
  ISSN: 1466-2043
  Abstract 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 global capitalism. This paper is an attempt to track the multi-faceted pressures of class, religion and nationalism in the way Akali Dal negotiates its politics in Indian federalism.Website 
• Singh P, 'Globalisation and Punjabi identity: resistance, relocation and reinvention (yet again!)'
  Journal of Punjab Studies 19 (2) (2012) pp.153-172
  ISSN: 0971-5223
  Abstract Punjabiyat or Punjabi identity evokes simultaneous contradictory images of a splintered identity, yet a potentially powerful economic, political and cultural force. This paper attempts to capture different aspects of this contradictory nature by situating the conflicting pulls on Punjabi identity in the context of the ongoing process of globalisation of economy, politics and culture. One aspect of globalisation that is particularly taken into account is the role of the Punjabi diaspora in giving impetus both to the powerful imagining of a unified Punjabi identity and to many divisions in the global Punjabi community. Methodologically, the paper attempts to fuse mapping the historical lineages of Punjabi identity with an analytical interrogation of the idea of Punjabiyat or Punjabi identity. It concludes by outlining the potential for the emergenceof a stronger Punjabi identity in spite of fissures in that identity.Website 
• Singh P, Barber T, 'Rereading Einstein on Socialism'
  Oxford Left Review 5 (2012) pp.60-63
  
• Bhusal L, Singh P, 'Exploring the role of external factors in the development process: a study of the role of India and China on Nepal's development'
  Millennial Asia 2 (1) (2011) pp.163-186
  ISSN: 0976-3996
  
• Singh P, 'The Left and the Third Front'
  Economic and Political Weekly 44 (12) (2009)
  ISSN: 0012-9976
  Abstract Even though the third front has had a fluctuating history, the common opposition to the centralising idea of nationalism espoused by both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party provides the ground for the coming together of left, regional and lower caste political forces. For this to happen, all three will have to imaginatively rework their programmatic positions to accommodate the aspirations of the others. While there are many hurdles to this, such a front is essential if the stranglehold of the parties representing Indian big capital has to be broken and space created for long-term success of progressive politics.
• Singh P, 'Political economy of the third front in India'
  Contemporary South Asia 16 (4) (2008) pp.465-469
  ISSN: 0958-4935
  Website 
• Singh P, 'Review article - Contestation over the appropriation of Bhagat Singh's legacy'
  Journal of Punjab Studies 14 (2) (2008) pp.297-304
  ISSN: 0971-5223
  
• Singh P, 'Contemporary Global Capitalism: Multi-pronged crisis'
  Economic and Political Weekly (41) (2008) pp.36-40
  ISSN: 0012-9976 eISSN: 2349-8846
  Abstract The grand failure of many a financial institution in the us is one of three such crises that have affected the world today; the others related to oil prices and food shortages. These in sum have broken the back of neoliberal triumphalism, and have resulted in a spatial shift in global capitalism. No wonder, it is time to address alternatives to this greed-driven, unregulated and excess-motivated system. Such an alternative must be based on the principles of ecological sustainability, social justice and democratic participation
• Singh P, 'Hindu Bias in Indias Secular Constitution: Probing Flaws in the Instruments of Governance'
  Third World Quarterly 26 (2005) pp.909-926
  ISSN: 0143-6597 eISSN: 1360-2241
  Abstract
  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,
  highlights the Hindu bias features of the Indian nationalist movement and the
  constitution. While acknowledging some admirable and progressive features of
  the constitution, the paper argues that its Hindu bias must be read as
  symptomatic of the depth of institutionalised Hindu communalism in India and
  the shallowness of the secular foundations of the Indian republic. The existence
  of institutionalised Hindu communalism means that the power of Hindu
  communal sectarianism is greater than that which is merely represented by
  Hindu nationalist organisations. The paper concludes by suggesting that the
  secular reconstruction of India demands critical combat with the institutionalised
  communalism embedded in a range of societal and state institutions.
  Examining Hindu bias in the constitution is an instance of an examination of
  institutionalised communalism in one key institution of the Indian state and
  society.
  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,
  highlights the Hindu bias features of the Indian nationalist movement and the
  constitution. While acknowledging some admirable and progressive features of
  the constitution, the paper argues that its Hindu bias must be read as
  symptomatic of the depth of institutionalised Hindu communalism in India and
  the shallowness of the secular foundations of the Indian republic. The existence
  of institutionalised Hindu communalism means that the power of Hindu
  communal sectarianism is greater than that which is merely represented by
  Hindu nationalist organisations. The paper concludes by suggesting that the
  secular reconstruction of India demands critical combat with the institutionalised
  communalism embedded in a range of societal and state institutions.
  Examining Hindu bias in the constitution is an instance of an examination of
  institutionalised communalism in one key institution of the Indian state and
  society.
  Website 

Book chapters

• Singh P, 'How Centre-State Relations Shape Punjab’s Development Pattern?' in Singh L, Singh N (ed.), Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab, a State in India, Springer (2016)
  ISBN: 978-981-10-0196-3 eISBN: 978-981-10-0197-0
  Abstract Chapter 17Website 
• Singh P, 'Experiencing torture and human rights violations: reflections on self-experience' in Dwivedi OP, Julie Rajan VG (ed.), Human Rights in Post-Colonial India, Routledge (2016)
  ISBN: 9781138120891 eISBN: 9781315651460
  Abstract Part II. Chapter 4Website 
• Singh P, 'Interrogating Marxian, Neo-classical and Green Perspectives on the Contradictory Implications of Third World/Asian Development and Poverty' in Sustainability of Asian Economic Development, Routledge (2012)
  ISBN: 1136197915, 978113619791
  
• Singh P, 'The global food crisis as a part of the crisis of global capitalism' in Globalization and Change, Rawat Publications (2011)
  
• Singh P, 'Global Food Crisis as a Part of the Crisis of Global Capitalism, in Ghuman' in Globalization and Change, Rawat Publications (2011)
  
• Singh P, 'The Rise of Sikh Belief and Community' in World History Encyclopedia. Era 6: The First Global Age - 1450-1770AD, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California (2011)
  

Conference papers

• Singh P, 'The Political Economy of the Cycles of Violence and Non-violence in the Sikh Struggle for Identity and Political Power: Implications for Indian Federalism'
  Third World Quarterly 28 (2007) pp.555-570
  ISSN: 0143-6597 eISSN: 1360-2241
  Website 

Reviews

• Singh P, review of Sikhism, in Pacific Affairs 85 (2012) pp.842-844ISSN: 0030-851X eISSN: 1715-3379
  
• Singh P, review of The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements, in Pacific Affairs 84 (2012) pp.799-801ISSN: 0030-851X eISSN: 1715-3379
  

Conferences

 

• Singh, P. (2014) 'How Centre-State Relations Shape Punjab’s Development Pattern'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rejuvenation of Punjab Economy, Patiala, India, March.
• Singh, P. (2014) 'Changing Social Values and Political Culture in Punjab: with special emphasis on the period since 1966'. Paper presented at the (Re-) Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values, Santa Cruz, March.
• Singh, P. (2013) 'Political economy of centralisation and decentralisation in India'. Paper presented at the Moscow Economic History Group, Moscow, October.
• Singh, P. (2013) 'Spatial shift in the global economy and its consequences for global sustainability: understanding the rise of BRICS economies'. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Sustainable Development, St Petersburg, September.
• Singh, P. (2013) 'An eco-socialist reading of the rising importance of BRICS in the global capitalist economy'. Paper presented at the 8th Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Florianopolis, Brazil, May.
• Singh, P. (2013) 'An Eco-socialist perspective on the global crisis'. Paper presented at the New Cultures of the Left conference organised by Historical Materialism, Delhi, April.
• Singh, P. (2012) 'Class, nation and religion: changing nature of Akali Dal politics in Punjab, India'. Paper presented at the The 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon, July.
• Singh, P. (2012) 'Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on the Spatial Shift in the Global Economy and Their Sustainability Implications'. Paper presented at the Joint conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics, International Initiative on Political Economy, French Association of Political Economy and the World Association of Political Economy, University of Sorbonne, Paris, July.
• Singh, P. (2012) 'Federalism and the Indian mode of accumulation: probing the role of state and nation'. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the British Association of South Asian Studies, London, April.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Federalism and the Indian mode of accumulation: probing the role of state and nation'. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of Historical Materialism on ‘Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle, London, November.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Federalism and the Indian mode of accumulation: probing the role of state and nation'. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of Historical Materialism on ‘Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle, London, November.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Instrumentalist versus intrinsic worth conception of human rights: the context of India and Punjab'. Paper presented at the Biannual Conference of Punjab Research Group (UK), Oxford, October.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'The Spatial Shift in the Global Economy: Sustainability Implications'. Paper presented at the Oxford Brookes Business School - Burgundy Business School Joint Research Conference, Dijon, May.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Political economy of religion and nationalism in the Sikhs’ engagement with different forms of centralised state power'. Paper presented at the 25th Conference of the British Association of South Asian Studies, Southampton, April.
• Bhusal, L. N. and Singh, P. (2011) 'Exploring the role of external factors in the development process: A study of the role of India and China on Nepal’s development'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Peace, Security and Economic Development at Dept of Defence and Strategic Studies, Patiala, Punjab, India, March.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Alternative economic perspectives on the sustainability implications of the global economic crisis and the spatial shift in the global capitalist economy'. Paper presented at the Left Forum Annual Conference, New York, March.
• Singh, P. (2011) 'Defying development that degrades the environment: applying the Sikh vision of living with nature'. Paper presented at the ESRC Seminar: ‘Environmental Sustainability in Non-Western Contexts: An Inter-disciplinary Event, Salford, March.
• Singh, P. (2010) 'Socialism in India: Theoretical and political perspectives'. Paper presented at the Nanterre University, Paris, September.
• Singh, P. (2010) 'Federalism and the Indian mode of accumulation: Probing the role of the state and nation'. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Political Economy, Rethymnon, Crete, September.
• Singh, P. (2010) 'Shariah and the Euro-centricity of Development Paradigms'. Paper presented at the Conference on Shariah and Human Rights, Oxford Brookes, June.
• Singh, P. (2010) 'Teaching methodologies: some lessons from the comparative experience of teaching in India and the West'. Paper presented at the International conference on Teaching Methodologies, Baba Farid Group of Institutes, Bathinda, January.
• Singh, P. (2009) 'Food crisis as a part of global economic crisis- China- India competition for African land and resources'. Paper presented at the International conference on Global Crisis and Africa organised by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, November.
• Singh, P. (2009) 'Political Economy of the Cycles of Federal Conflicts in India'. Paper presented at the Conference on 'Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity' organised by the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming, China, July.
• Singh, P. (2009) 'Development as a common issue in ethno-nationalist conflicts'. Paper presented at the The International Workshop on 'A Human Rights and Peace Audit of Partitions as a Method of Conflict Resolution', Nepal, March.
• Singh, P. (2009) 'In defence of organic farming'. Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Institute of Development and Communication, Chandigarh, India, January.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Interrogating Marxian, Neo-classical and Green perspectives on the contradictory implications of Third World/Asian development and poverty for global sustainability'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Development, Punjabi University, Patiala, India, November.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Intrinsic worth versus instrumentalist conception of human rights'. Paper presented at the Conference on 'Understanding impunity: failures and possibilities of rights to truth, justice and reparation' organised jointly by the South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Hong Kong and the International Council for Development Research, Canada, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Chandigarh, India, October.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Indian capitalism in a global context'. Paper presented at the Conference on 'Is Capitalism soon over' at the International Forum on Globalisation, San Francisco, USA, October.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Federalism, policy regimes and regional development: An exploratory study of Punjab and Bihar in the pre-1991 and post-1991 policy regimes'. Paper presented at the 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Manchester, July.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Shifting balance and the current crises of global capitalism'. Paper presented at the Socio-ecological models of the future: Theoretical conceptions and practical programs, organised jointly by Praxis, the Research and Education Centre of the Victor Serge Library in Moscow, and the XXI Century Centre for Ecological Education and the International Socio-Ecological Union, Crimea, Ukraine, July.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Reading Guru Granth Sahib: some observations'. Paper presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the Association of Punjab Studies, Coventry, June.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Federalism and regional conflicts in South Asia - two presentations'. Paper presented at the South Asian Workshop on 'Partition as a mode of conflict resolution and audit of peace accords in South Asia, organised jointly by Canada's International Development Research Council and South Asia's South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Kathmandu, Nepal, March.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'NIC model of development: Some lessons for other developing economies'. Paper presented at the International Institute of Management and Technology, Delhi, India, March.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Will globalisation strengthen or weaken centralisation in India?'. Paper presented at the British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester, March.
• Singh, P. (2008) 'Is Third World poverty conducive or hindrance to global sustainability?'. Paper presented at the Social Aspects of Green Economics Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, February.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Gandhi vs Bhagat Singh: Two contesting discourses during Inda's freedom struggle'. Paper presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the Punjab Research Group, University of Manchester, October.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Political economy of the conflict between centralisation and decentralisation in India before and after 1991'. Paper presented at the an annual workshop on Post-Exotic India: A New Narrative in Making (Invited paper), Roskilde University, Denmark, September.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Competing nationalisms in the contestation over Sikh role in 1857'. Paper presented at the Mutiny on the Margins International Conference, University of Edinburgh, July.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Imperialism, uneven development and sustainability'. Paper presented at the Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics, Bristol, July.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Poverty, global inequality and sustainability'. Paper presented at the Global Poverty Research Group and Brooks World Poverty Institute Conference on Poverty and Capital, University of Manchester, July.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Researching international development contributions to intellectual self-satisfaction, curriculum development and external recognition'. Paper presented at the Oxford Brookes University Business School Annual Conference, Oxford, June.
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Contradictory implications of Third World poverty for global sustainability'. Proceedings of the Second International Green Economics Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, April, pp. , ISBN
• Singh, P. (2007) 'Food self-sufficiency objective of India's green revolution; Context and implications for the Indian state's politics and development strategy in post-independent India'. Paper presented at the Beyond Independence: South Asia, 1947-77, Royal Holloway College, University of London, April.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Global inequality, capitalism and sustainability: Interrogating Marxian and Green theoretical traditions'. Paper presented at the World Philosophy Congress, University of Delhi, India, December.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Implications of global warming for Indian economy with special reference to Punjab'. Paper presented at the Punjabi University, Patiala, India, December.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'North-South inequality global capitalism and sustainability: Some criticisms of the Marxist and Green perspectives'. Paper presented at the Department of Economics and the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, October.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Delhi's policies on Punjabi economic development: pre-1947 and post-1947 compared'. Paper presented at the South Asia History Seminar Series Programme, Balliol College, University of Oxford, October.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'North-South inequality, global capitalism and sustainability: transcending Marxian and Green perspectives or synthesizing the two?'. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics, London School of Economics, July.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Deepening capitalism in Punjab's rural society: unleashing development, degradation and resistance'. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the South Asian Anthropologists' Group, Goldsmiths College, London, July.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Political economy of the conflict between centrist-nationalism and state-based nationalisms'. Paper presented at the 19th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands, July.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Researching for a 'third way' in Indian political economy: initial inspiration, writing the paper and dilemmas about publishing'. Paper presented at the Annual Business Conference, Oxford Brookes University, June.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'Political economy of the cycles of violence and non-violence in Sikh struggle for identity and political power'. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March.
• Singh, P. (2006) 'A discussant note on Barbara Harriss-White's paper 'The market driven politics of renewable energy''. Paper presented at the International Workshop on the Ecological Challenge and its Political Economy, Wolfson College, Oxford, February.
• Singh, P. (2005) 'Political economy of the conflict between centralising and decentralising tendencies in India'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution in South Asia, Chandigarh, India, December.
• Singh, P. (2005) 'Gender bias in curriculum and research in Higher Education: Reflections with special reference to the area of development studies'. Paper presented at the Fourth European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, August.
• Singh, P. (2005) 'Political economy of violence and non-violence in Sikh struggle for identity and political power'. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Punjab Studies (UK), University of Oxford, June.
• Singh, P. (2005) 'Political economy of centralisation in India: some critical notes from a decentralist perspective'. Paper presented at the Annual Research Conference of the Business School, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, June.
• Singh, P. (2004) 'Cycles of violence and non-violence in the Sikh struggle for identity and political power'. Paper presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Harris Manchester College, The University of Oxford, September.
• Singh, P. (2004) 'River, religion and region: conflict over river water resources between Pubjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and the Centre in India'. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April.
• Singh, P. (2003) 'Changing contours of Sikh/Akali politics in Punjab'. Paper presented at the Conference on Identity, Rights and Justice, Oxford, June.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'Conceptions of health and illness among Indian Punjabi peasants, refereed a'. Paper presented at the World Conference on Ethnotherapies: Institute of Ethnomedicine, Munich University, October.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'Partnership or competition: what role can Britain play in creating a global economy that works for all?'. Paper presented at the Oxford Union, Oxford Economic Forum, October.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'A critical evaluation of the Marxist theory of needs from an environmental perspective'. Paper presented at the Conference on Markets and the Environment, Oxford, June.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'Capital, state and nation in federalism: the context of India'. Paper presented at the UN Funded Venkatarangaiya Foundation, Hyderabad, India, April.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'Inter-State economic disparities and their implications for Indian federalism'. Paper presented at the Centre for Developing Societies, Delhi, India, April.
• Singh, P. (2002) 'Gender and caste equality in Sikhism: theory and practice'. Paper presented at the Bi-Annual Conference of the Association of Punjab Studies, Coventry University, March.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'The political economy of human rights, with special reference to India and other parts of South Asia'. Paper presented at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University, December.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'Regional inequalities in India'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Development Experiences of India and China, University of Lancaster in the Lake District, October.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'Group rights, secessionism/autonomy and national integrity: interrogating discourses on group and human rights of the Sikhs in post-colonial India'. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rights of Groups and Differentiated Citizenship, University of Stockholm, Sweden, September.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'Costs of nuclearisation in South Asia'. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Pakistan, Wolfson College, Oxford, July.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'Dialectics of regional inequalities and nation-building in India'. Paper presented at the British Association of South Asian Studies, Coventry University, March.
• Singh, P. (2001) 'Capitalist modernisation and religious revivalism in the Punjab'. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Pakistan, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March.

 

Pritam has a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford (Oriel College) where he was awarded the Edward Boyle/Charles Wallace Scholarship. He took his BA Hons School in Economics and MA Hons School in Economics degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh (India). He was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission in India to study at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi from where he passed his Mphil with distinction. Before coming to Oxford, he has taught at University of Delhi as a Lecturer in Economics and at Panjab University, Chandigarh as a Reader in Economics. In 2007, he was elected as a Research Associate at the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and in 2009, he was a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and in 2013 at Moscow State University, Moscow. He leads the research cluster on Environmental and Development Economics in the Department.

Awarded Emeritus Professor at Oxford Brookes University 2018