Book Review
Mumtaz Alam, Health, Medicine and the Encounter of Cultures in India, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2022, xiv+246 pages, Rs 1050. In the last few decades there has been a plethora of work exploring the history of medicine in India. However,…
Book Review
Madhwi, Health, Medicine and Migration: The Formation of Indentured Labour, c. 1834–1920, Primus Books: New Delhi, 2020, xii+383 pages, Rs 1395. Michel Foucault in his path-breaking work The Birth of the Clinic (1973) delineates two significant developments in the field…
Book Reviews
Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Nationalism in India, with an Introduction by Amrita Basu, New Delhi: Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, 282 pages, Rs 695 Subhoranjan Dasgupta Suranjan Das, ed., Gandhi and Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings, New Delhi: Primus Books,…
Book Reviews
Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India Narender Pani, ed. Routledge India, 2021, 284 pages, Rs 1095. Book Review by Siraj Hussain The Political Economy of New India: Critical Essays Raju J. Das, AakarBooks, Delhi, 2020 202 pages…
Editorial Note, May-Jun, 2022
This issue of Social Scientist leads with two long review essays: one based on a book by Rehman Sobhan, on his experiences as a member of the Planning Commission established after Bangladesh’s liberation in 1971; and the other on a…
Nation-Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh
Rehman Sobhan Untranquil Reflections: Nation-building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh, New Delhi, Sage, pp. xviii+348. This book is very important for understanding the economic and political history of Bangladesh from its liberation to 1974, and some of the factors leading to the…
Between Capital and Imperialism: A Vanishing Point?
Capital and Imperialism achieves a rare congruence between theory and history, structure and narrative. This is not a question of a theoretical argument finding empirical substantiation as narrative, or history being staged so as to put forth a theoretical proposition.…
Book Review – Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness And Nationalism In Colonial Punjab, Delhi
K.L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness And Nationalism In Colonial Punjab, Delhi, Indian Institute of Advanced Study and Primus Books, 2021, xii + 372 pages, Rs 1250. K.L. Tuteja’s Religion, Community and Nation is a welcome and enriching…
Book Reviews
Inequality in Education: Towards a Consensualisation of Status Quo Vikas Gupta, Rama Kant Agnihotri and Minati Panda, eds, Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2021, 776 pages, Rs 1650 A Look into the World of Women’s…
Kenneth Waltz’s Epistemology and Ontology of International Politics: A Marxist Critique
The discipline of International Relations has had confused intellectual beginnings. Debates regarding the origins of the field have culminated in a scholarly consensus of three great debates which defined the subject matter, methodology and object of analysis of the discipline.…