Against the Stream: Ajit Singh and His Battles

Abstract

many causes. It does so through intertwined narratives including, among the major strands, Singh's life and works, the Faculty of Economics and Politics in Cambridge, and the Punjab and Sikhism -all of which the author manages to weave together with rich prose, fine scholarship and passionate commitment to the subject. Saith studied economics in Delhi and Cambridge in the 1960s; he was a student, then collaborator and close friend of Singh, and so was in an ideal position to tackle the task, which in fact he has accomplished extremely well, as the impressive list of commendatory reviews of the book by eminent economists, to be found in the opening pages of the book, amply demonstrates.