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Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India (2025)
Thesis
Chakma, S. B. (2025). Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043700

Conservation projects and displacement are two facets of the relationship between the state and the environment. Conservation projects aim to address the threats to the environment and its biodiversity that are undoubtedly real in contemporary times.... Read More about Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India.

India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions (2024)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S. (2024). India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions. In C. Moliner, & D. Singh (Eds.), The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021 Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity (pp. 23-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515050-4

India’s farmers’ movement (Kisan Andolan) of 2020–2021 has been the most successful movement against Narendra Modi’s authoritarian populist government since it came to office in 2014, forcing a reversal of the three farm bills that aimed at an accele... Read More about India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions.

Class Relations in India’s Building Construction: Bihari Migrant Labourers and the Political Apparatus of Surplus Extraction (2024)
Thesis
Maskara, M. (2024). Class Relations in India’s Building Construction: Bihari Migrant Labourers and the Political Apparatus of Surplus Extraction [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041990

The thesis examines class relations, i.e. social relations of organising exploitation in the case of internal migrant labourers in India, in explaining class formation. By incorporating migrant labourers through production relations, such as sub-cont... Read More about Class Relations in India’s Building Construction: Bihari Migrant Labourers and the Political Apparatus of Surplus Extraction.

The Agrarian Question in West Punjab (1885-2020): Market Formations, Rural Differentiation, and Kissan Politics in an Agrarian Colony (2023)
Thesis
Rashid, H. (2023). The Agrarian Question in West Punjab (1885-2020): Market Formations, Rural Differentiation, and Kissan Politics in an Agrarian Colony [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040962

Combining theoretical insights from Marxist agrarian political economy and peasant studies with the practices of agrarian movements, the thesis traces the trajectories of agrarian change and kissan politics in West Punjab from the British-led canal c... Read More about The Agrarian Question in West Punjab (1885-2020): Market Formations, Rural Differentiation, and Kissan Politics in an Agrarian Colony.

Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India (2023)
Thesis
Hadley, P. A. (2023). Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039610

This thesis explores processes of co-operative institution building in rural development in central India, with specific regard to farmer producer companies (FPCs), a form of ‘new generation’ co-operative-company hybrid, as well as the organic cotton... Read More about Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India.

Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India (2022)
Thesis
Chakravorty, S. P. (2022). Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00036989

The Himalayas have long been a source of attraction for people for its resources that have encouraged its use and exploitation by the government since colonial times. The Himalayan terrain has typically been favoured for the tourism industry owing to... Read More about Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Strong leaders, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi Moment in Historical Context (2021)
Journal Article
Sinha, S. (2021). Strong leaders, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi Moment in Historical Context. Geoforum, 124(1), 320-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.019

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is part of a worldwide wave of strong ‘populist’ leaders who have emerged in the context of the crisis of neoliberalism, and among whose appeal is their claims to put their economies back on a growth trajectory by... Read More about Strong leaders, authoritarian populism and Indian developmentalism: The Modi Moment in Historical Context.

Does Transitional Justice Build the Rule of Law? : The Role of Domestic Prosecutions (2019)
Thesis
Broome, J. M. (2019). Does Transitional Justice Build the Rule of Law? : The Role of Domestic Prosecutions [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032239

In the aftermath of widespread human rights violations, states may engage in a process of transitional justice in an effort to diffuse conflict, prevent further violence, and promote reconciliation in society. Though transitional justice is a broad t... Read More about Does Transitional Justice Build the Rule of Law? : The Role of Domestic Prosecutions.

Structures and Subjectives (2016)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S. (2016). Structures and Subjectives. In U. Chandra, & D. Taghioff (Eds.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India (pp. 225-234). Oxford University Press.

Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate? (2015)
Journal Article
Sinha, S., & Varma, R. (2015). Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?. Critical Sociology, 43(4-5), 545-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920515616263

This article provides an introduction to the special issue, ‘Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What’s Left of the Debate?’ It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both collab... Read More about Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?.