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…
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…
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.…
The Indian political visual landscape is littered with large and small posters/ hoardings/boards of political wannabes and local level ‘politicians’. These aspirants try to project themselves as not just belonging to a particular political party but also as part of…
It was the autumn of the first half of the seventeenth century when a young Jain merchant from Jaunpur named Banarasidas excitedly travelled to a city named Benares for visiting the holy shrines of the Jain deities Lord Parshwanatha and…
In November 2020, the Government of Odisha (GoO) notified the closure and merger of 14,000 elementary schools in the state under a new policy initiative of the NITI Aayog named Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital in Education (SATH-E). It…
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…