Fellow

Trained in Economics, Arvinder Singh’s theoretical interests include the wider interface between social structures and economic processes, the related questions of class formation, identities and ideologies in the course of capital formation, the connection between religion and economy, and discerning the political in the economic. His more immediate work focuses on classical themes around land and labor, like ‘land alienation’ and spatial and social mobility of labor, within the context of industrialization, urbanization and migration. He has a particularly enduring interest in the exchange sphere of the economy as distinct from the production sphere. Markets, one of his perennial interests, including all their social, spatial and institutional manifestations, remain close to his heart. Arvinder Singh has a special interest in China and in China-India comparative work.