Utsa Patnaik

Utsa Patnaik
Patnaik (right), V.V. Giri Award, 2012
SpousePrabhat Patnaik
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Delhi
Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
InstitutionsJawaharlal Nehru University

Utsa Patnaik is an Indian Marxian economist. She taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi,[1][citation needed] from 1973 until her retirement in 2010. Her husband is the Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik.[citation needed]

Biography

Patnaik obtained her doctorate in economics from the Somerville College, Oxford, before returning to India to join JNU.[2] Her main areas of research interest are the problems of transition from agriculture and peasant predominant societies to an industrial society, both in a historical context and at present about India; and questions relating to food security and poverty.[citation needed]

Selected works

These issues have been discussed in more than 110 papers published as chapters in books and in journals.[3] She has authored several books, including Peasant Class Differentiation – A Study in Method (1987),[4] The Long Transition (1999) and The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays (2007).[5] The Republic of Hunger was directly referenced in a volume published in 2021 titled The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect, the first volume of the India Since the 90s series published by Tulika Books. A German translation of selections from the last book appeared in 2009.[6] She has also edited and co-edited several volumes including Chains of Servitude – Bondage and Slavery in India (1985),[7] Agrarian Relations and Accumulation – the Mode of Production Debate in India (1991),[8] The Making of History – Essays presented to Irfan Habib (2000),[9] The Agrarian Question in Marx and his Successors in two volumes (2007,[10] 2011[11]) and A Theory of Imperial Capitalism.[12]

Book reviews

  • Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. On A Theory of Imperialism. Social Scientist, edited by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik, vol. 45, no. 3/4, Social Scientist, 2017, pp. 87–91.
  • Vijay, R. The Agrarian Question and the Marxist Method. Economic and Political Weekly, edited by Utsa Patnaik, vol. 48, no. 35, Economic and Political Weekly, 2013, pp. 27–30.
  • Pratt, Brian. Development in Practice, edited by Utsa Patnaik and Sam Moyo, vol. 22, no. 7, Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2012, pp. 1060–1061.
  • Gopinath, Ravindran. Social Scientist, edited by Utsa Patnaik, vol. 36, no. 1/2, Social Scientist, 2008, pp. 94–97.
  • Bose, Sugata. The Journal of Asian Studies, edited by Jan Breman et al. , vol. 47, no. 4, [Cambridge University Press, Association for Asian Studies], 1988, pp. 912–914, doi:10.2307/2057913.

Selected journal articles

2010–2019

2000–2009

References

  1. ^ "Utsa Patnaik's Faculty Profile Page at the JNU website". Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Somerville's enduring links with India – The Indira Gandhi Centre for Sustainable Development at Somerville College, Oxford". Somerville College, Oxford. 2015.
  3. ^ "Text of the inaugural T G Narayanan Memorial Lecture on Social Deprivation organised by Media Development Foundation and Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, and speaker profile" (PDF). The Hindu. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  4. ^ "It is a crisis rooted in economic reforms". Frontline. 19 June 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Catalogue Information on The Republic of Hunger and author profile, from Three Essays Collective". Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  6. ^ "Schattenseiten der Globalisierung". Deutschlandradio. 5 October 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  7. ^ Patnaik, Utsa; Dingwaney, Manjari (1985). Chains of servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India. Sangam Books. ISBN 9780861314904. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  8. ^ Patnaik, Utsa (1990). Information on Agrarian Relations and Accumulation – the Mode of Production Debate in India. Sameeksha Trust. ISBN 9780195625653. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  9. ^ "The Making of History – Catalogue Information". Tulika Books. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  10. ^ "The Agrarian Question in Marx and his Successors, Vol. I – Catalogue Information". LeftWord Books. Retrieved 19 February 2012.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "The Agrarian Question in Marx and his Successors, Vol. II – Catalogue Information". LeftWord Books. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  12. ^ Patnaik, Utsa; Patnaik, Prabhat (November 2016). A Theory of Imperialism. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780231179799. Retrieved 15 October 2020.