Professor Jairus Banaji
BA DipSocAnth (Oxon), MPhil (Delhi), DPhil (Oxon)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Professorial Research Associate
Agrarian Change and Development
Professorial Research Associate
- Name:
- Professor Jairus Banaji
- Email address:
- jairus_b@rediffmail.com
Biography
Jairus Banaji’s main research interests include: agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; and, contemporary India, with a special interest in issues like the critique of minimalist stereotypes of the ancient economy; Marx’s method in Capital; modes of production; the fate of the peasantry under capitalism; and, labour and capital in India’s economy. He is currently working on a short book called (provisionally) Marxist Theory and Contemporary Capitalism.
Publications
Authored Books
Banaji, Jairus (2010) Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation. Leiden; Boston: Brill. (Historical materialism book series, 25)
Banaji, Jairus (2007) Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance, revised paperback edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Banaji, Jairus and Hensman, Rohini (1990) Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in International Companies. New Delhi: Sage.
Edited Books
Banaji, Jairus, ed. (1992) Henryk Grossmann, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crises, translated and abridged. London: Pluto Press.
Book Chapters
Banaji, Jairus (2012) 'The Economic Trajectories of Late Antiquity.' In: Johnson, Scott, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, pp. 597-624.
Banaji, Jairus (2012) 'Regions that look seawards: changing fortunes, submerged histories and the slow capitalism of the sea.' In: Maiuro, Marco and De Romanis, Federico, (eds.), A Tale of Two Worlds: Comparative Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Trade. Leiden: Brill. (Forthcoming)
Banaji, Jairus (2010) 'Modes of Production.' In: Fine, Ben and Saad Filho, Alfredo, (eds.), Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. (Forthcoming)
Banaji, Jairus (2010) 'Late Antique Legacies and Muslim Economic Expansion.' In: Haldon, John, (ed.), Money, Exchange and the Economy in the First Century of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Banaji, Jairus (1980) 'Summary of Selected Parts of Kautsky’s The Agrarian Question.' In: Wolpe, Harold, (ed.), The Articulation of Modes of Production: Essays from Economy and Society. London: RKP, pp. 45-92.
Banaji, Jairus (1979) 'From the Commodity to Capital: Hegel’s Dialectic in Marx’s Capital.' In: Elson, Diane, (ed.), Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism. London: CSE Books, pp. 14-45.
Articles
Banaji, Jairus (2012) 'Fascism as a Mass Movement: Translator's Introduction.' Historical Materialism, 20 (1). pp. 133-143.
Banaji, Jairus (2010) 'The Ironies of Indian Maoism.' International Socialism Journal (128). pp. 129-148.
Banaji, Jairus and Hensman, Rohini (1990) 'Multinationals and the Evolution of Industrial Conflict: Bombay 1956-1984.' Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), XXV (24). pp. 135-152.
Conference or Workshop Items
Banaji, Jairus (2005) Thwarting the Market for Corporate Control: Takeover Regulation in India. In: Queen Elizabeth House’s 50th Birthday Conference.
Monographs
Banaji, Jairus and Mody, Gautam (2001) Corporate Governance and the Indian Private Sector. Working Paper. QEH Working Paper 73 .
Translations
Banaji, Jairus, trans. (2012) Fascism as a Mass Movement (1934) by Arthur Rosenberg. Historical Materialism, 20 (1). pp. 144-190.
