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Dr. Muhammad Ali Jan
Assistant Professor and Chairperson, Department of Economics
Department of Economics
DPhil - International Development, University of Oxford, UK
RESEARCH INTERESTS

biography

I completed my PhD in International Development, focusing in particular on the political economy and sociology of agrarian change in Pakistani Punjab, from the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, in 2017. I am also a Research Associate of the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme (CSASP) at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2019, I was a postdoctoral fellow in South Asian Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford during which time I designed and taught courses on the comparative political economy of South Asia at CSASP. Specifically, I work on agricultural markets and agrarian change in Pakistani Punjab but my broader interests include history of development thinking, industrial policy, informality and comparative political economy of South Asia. My articles have been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Modern Asian Studies and Economic and Political Weekly and I have contributed a number of chapters for edited volumes. I am currently preparing a monograph on the agrarian sociology of Pakistani Punjab through the class and status struggles between merchants, landlords and peasants in two districts of the province.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles:
  • The social origins of capital: trajectories of accumulation at the rural-urban interface in Pakistani Punjab’ Journal of contemporary Asia (forthcoming)
  • The entanglements of exchange in India’ (2023) Modern Asian Studies Online view:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X23000094
  • Lineages of the labour question: from “subaltern workers” to “classes of labour” in the Punjab canal colonies’ (2022) the journal of peasant studies online view: doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2137407
  • The complexity of exchange: wheat markets, petty-commodity producers and the emergence of commercial capital in colonial Punjab’ (2019) Journal of Agrarian Change, 19 (2): 225-248
  • Harriss-White, Barbara (co-author) ‘The Three Roles of Agricultural Markets: A review essay’ (2012) Economic & Political Weekly, 47, (1), 39-52
    • Book Chapters
  • The Segmented ‘Rural Elite’: Agrarian Transformation and Rural Politics in Pakistani Punjab’ (2019) Chapter 8 in New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change Matthew McCartney and S. Akbar Zaidi (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Harriss-White and Amirali (co-authors) ‘Malgudi on the Move: Bardhan’s Political Economy and the Rest of India’ (2019) Chapter 10 in Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardan’s Political Economy of India. Elizabeth Chatterjee and Matthew McCartney (eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Harriss-White, Barbara (co-author) ‘Petty production and India’s development.’ (2019) In Karl Marx’s Life, Ideas, and Influences, Shaibal Gupta, Marcello Musto, and Babak Amini (eds.) 345–67. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • The Ties that Divide: Marx’s Fractions of Capital and Class Analysis in/for the Global South’ (2021) in Marx in the Field. Alessandra Mezzadri (eds.) 49–62 London and New York: Anthem Press.
  • Harriss-White (co-author) ‘Agricultural Markets’ (2021) in Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, Akram-Lodhi, A. H., K. Dietz, B. Engels, and B. M. McKay (eds.) Chapter 20, Chletanham: Edward Elgar Publishing
    • Book Reviews
  • The great agrarian conquest: The colonial reshaping of a rural world, by Neeladri BhattacharyaAlbany: SUNY Press. 2019. 522 pp. $100 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-4384-7739-8, Journal of Agrarian Change, 22 (3): 640-644 (2021)
  • A sweeping view of agriculture in Pakistan’ review of Spielman, David J., Malik, Sohail J., Dorosh, Paul A., and Ahmad, Nuzhat (eds.) (2017), Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 560, USD 79.95, Review of Agrarian Studies, 8 (1): 133-138 (2018)
    • Review
  • Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism by Kalyan Sanyal’ Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (2): 334-337 (2013)

AWARDS & HONORS

AFFILIATIONS

Research Associate Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, University Of Oxford (2019-present)