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.…
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…
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…
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.…
Lim Mah-Hui and Michael Heng Siam-Heng, COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of Our Time, ISEAS Publishing, 2022, xxi+198 pages For generations born after World War II, the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the greatest catastrophe they have encountered at a global…
Stuti Bhatnagar, India’s Pakistan Policy: How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations, Routledge London, 2021, 178 pages, £36 The restructuring of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the…
In Defence of History -- Symposium to mark Prof. Irfan Habib's 90th birthday 12 August 2021
Today we have gathered to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of one of the greatest historians of India, if not the whole world. It is both a solemn and a joyous occasion. There is no point in even sketching the awesome…
As he enters his 90s, Irfan Habib has just embarked on a new book on the history of the great Mughal emperor Akbar. The book will be part of the People’s History of India series, a project that has consumed…
Suparna Gooptu (ed.), Writing Women in History: Glimpses from India’s Colonial Past, K.P. Bagchi & Company, Kolkata, 2019, Rs 595 Anirudh Deshpande, The Practice of History in India: Essays in Search of a New Past, New Delhi: Aakar, 2020, 160…