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…
I would like to place on record my deep gratitude to Professors Sasheej Hegde and Atlury Murali (2021) for having engaged with my book, Infinite Double: Persons/Things Empire/Economy (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2015) (hereafter ID), in such a…
Sanjay Kumar and Jugal Kishore, Public Health Care in India: Historical Background and Current Realities, New Delhi: Century Publications, 2020, 288 pages, Rs 450. Sanjay Kumar and Jugal Kishore’s book, Public Health Care in India: Historical Background and Current Realities,…
Suranjan Das and Achintya Kumar Dutta (eds.), Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal: Cholera, Malaria and Smallpox, A Documentation, Delhi: Primus, 2021, pages i–viii+397, Rs 1250. Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell, Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History,…