This issue includes a symposium on some aspects of the social dimensions of development in India, with three articles by Dipa Sinha; Aashish Gupta, Vipul Paikra and Kanika Sharma; and Anjana Thampi and Arpita Biswas. Despite few spells of relatively…
Amused by the propensity of Indians to indulge in pseudoscience and their collective mentality to blindly accept the Vedas as a source of not only spiritual but also physical knowledge, globally eminent Indian scientist Professor Meghnad Saha used to remark…
Through the analysis of the ideas and activities of Molvi Zaka Ullah (1832–1910), the present paper1 intends to explore certain historical questions pertaining to modern education in colonial India. He was one interlocutor who remained deeply involved in education throughout…
The plaque next to the ruins of an apartment in Shaniwarwada, the Peshwa’s eighteenth century fortified residence in the heart of Pune, proudly proclaims that its former occupant was Sadashiva Rao ‘Bhau’, a national martyr, convincing the mesmerised tourists that…
Malnutrition in India has been a persistent problem and has even been called a ‘national shame’. This has been one aspect of the Indian economy that regularly reminds us during both periods of high economic growth as well as stagnation,…
The last three decades witnessed extensive changes in the organization of economic and political life in India. However, social change has been slower, if not stagnant. This is reflected in slow improvements in measures of human development, particularly in health…
Spousal violence is often seen as individual and isolated and considered a private matter not worthy of public condemnation.1 It is, however, an expression of larger systemic and structural issues. Following neoliberal economic reforms in India, a narrative has been…
Professor Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya was one of the most innovative, analytical and complete historians of early India of his generation. Prof. Chattopadhyaya studied in the Sanskrit College, and Presidency College, Kolkata, and obtained his Master’s degree from the Department of Ancient…
Abhijit Sen (or ‘Manik’ to his family, friends and colleagues), one of India’s leading progressive economists, passed away on 29 August 2022. Besides serving as a much respected and loved Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and…