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. (2013) Fascism: Essays on Europe and India. Gurgaon, India: Three Essays Collective. (In Press)
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. 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.
