Prof. Arindam Banerjee | BML Munjal University

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Arindam Banerjee, PhD

Professor and Dean

School

School of Liberal Studies

Position (additional roles)

Dean, School of Liberal Studies

Education

Graduation In: B.Sc. Economics
Graduation From: Presidency College, University of Calcutta
Graduation Year: 2000

Post Graduation In: M.A. in Economics
Post Graduation From: Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Post Graduation Year: 2002

Doctorate In: PhD in Economics
Doctorate From: Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Doctorate Year: 2008

Experience

From – To (Year)	Designation & Organization
July 2023- ongoing	Professor and Vice-Dean, BML Munjal University
2015-2023	Associate Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi
2011-2015	Assistant Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi
2010-2011	Research and Information System for Developing Countries
2008-2009	Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum

Key Publications

‘Agrarian Questions: New Paradigms in a Changing World’ in Development and Change, first published, 24 th April, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12766: (This is a review essay based on four books authored by Henry Berstein, Jan Van Der Ploeg, Philip McMichael and Jennifer Clapp and Ryan Isakson. The essay tries to critically reassess the agrarian questions in the cotemporary world conditions.)
‘Locating Agrarian Labour within the contours of Imperialism: A Historical Review’ in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism ed. by Zak Cope and Immanuel Ness, OUP global, March, 2022 (ISBN: 9780197527085): (This article crtically reviews the history of agrarian labour and its relation with imperialist world systems over the span of four centuries)
‘From Agrarian Crisis to Global Economic Crisis: Neo-liberalism and the Indian peasantry’ in the book ‘The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change’ (eds.) Rebecca Buchholz, Shahra Razavi and Peter Utting, Palgrave Macmillan. April, 2012. ISBN13: 978-0230297821: (This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference organized by the UNRISD on ‘Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries’ on the 12–13 November 2009 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.)
‘Food, Feed, Fuel: Transforming the Competition for Grains’, Development and Change, Vol 42. No 2.: 529-57, March, 2011: (This article theorizes the new economic replationship between oil prices and food prices in the context of grain-based bio-fuel production, focussing on a case of the US ethanol boom)
‘The ‘Longer food Crisis’ and Consequences for Economic Theory and Policy in the South’ in Rethinking the Social sciences with Sam Moyo ed. by Praveen Jha, Paris Yeros and Walter Chambati, Tulika Books, India, 2020 (ISBN: 978-81-939269-4-9): (This article investifgates the long-term global food situation and attempts to identify historical causes of food crisis in the South. The article also critically assesses dominant theories in development based on the findings.
‘Agrarian Crisis and Accumulation in Rural India: Locating Land Question within The Agrarian Question’ in ‘The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition’ ed by Anthony P. D’Costa and Achin Chakraborty, Oxford University Press, April, 2017. ISBN-13: 9780198792444: (This article interrogates the contemporary agrarian question in India and engages with prevalent theories based on emprical field-work)
‘Contestations over Food Subsidy Policy: Examining the High Level Committee Recommendations’, Social Scientist, Vol. 43(7-8): 41-57, 2015: (This article asseses the macro-economic food situation in Indian since the 1960s and critically examines the recommendations of High-Level Committee for restructuring the Food Corporation of India (Shanta Kumar Committee))
‘Historiography sans History: A response to Tirthankar Roy’ (co-authored with Chirashree Dasgupta and Surajit Mazumder), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50(35): 124-132., 2015: (This article is in response to Tirtthankar Roy’s analysis of the colonial economy and enagages with teh question of historiography, colonial trade and de-industrialization)
‘Peasant Classes under Neo-liberalism: A Class Analysis of Two states’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44(15), April 11, 2009: (This article undertakes an analysis of peasant class relations in Andhra Pradesh/Telengan and West Bengal based on primary field surveys)

Professional Distinctions

Founding Member, Global University of Sustainability, https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/;
Fellow, African Programme of Rethinking Development Economics
External Consultant to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and International fund for Agricultural development (IFAD)
Adjunct Faculty, IIM, Kozikode