This issue leads with an overarching assessment by Jayati Ghosh of how the vision of economic development itself has changed over time and the implications that follow. While the post World War II development discourse started with an emphasis on…
This issue of Social Scientist carries three articles that in different ways examine the transformation wrought by colonial rule in pre-Independence India. Aparna Balachandran in her article titled ‘Colonialism, Caste Formation and Urban Rule in Early Colonial Madras’, examines the…
This issue of Social Scientist features the texts of two memorial lectures held recently at New Delhi: the P. Sundarayya memorial lecture delivered by Utsa Patnaik, and the Safdar Hashmi memorial lecture delivered by A. Mangai.
This issue of Social Scientist includes three articles addressing different themes in History. In the first, Seema Bawa questions notions regarding the appearance and proliferation of the goddess cult and worship ritual in India, especially in early historic Bihar (fifth…
In this issue Social Scientist carries a set of articles remembering and celebrating Sitaram Yechury, and his life and work. Yechury was in public life not just as a leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),…
This edition of Social Scientist carries the second part of Aditya Mukherjee’s Presidential Address to the Indian History Congress, in which he provides an assessment of the distance we have travelled from the India of Nehru’s dream. In that perception…
The current number of Social Scientist is a special issue on Mahatma Gandhi on the seventy-sixth anniversary of his martyrdom. We are grateful to Sucheta Mahajan for helping us prepare this issue.
In the lead article in this issue titled ‘The Constitutionality and Rationality of the Secular Imperative’, Rahul Govind defends the constitutional value of secularism against academic and political critiques which contend either that secularism has no roots in the Indian…
This issue of Social Scientist, guest-edited by Indu Agnihotri, brings together a set of papers on the lives of women focusing on issues of work and livelihood, interwoven with their daily struggles in different regions of India. The papers are…
This issue of Social Scientist leads with two lectures delivered in memory of the legendary Communist leader P. Sundarayya – one delivered at Hyderabad by P.D.T. Achary and the other at Delhi by Prakash Karat. Achary’s lecture addresses the implications…