Editorial Note, Mar-Apr, 2023
More than a year since the start of war in Ukraine, and with that war still ongoing, the lead article in this issue of Social Scientist by Anuradha Chenoy takes a step back to assess what triggered and sustains this…
Editorial Note, Jan-Feb, 2023
6 December 2022 marked the completion of thirty years since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which heralded a major transformation of India’s polity with a former right-wing fringe rising to dominance riding on a majoritarian and communal agenda. That…
Editorial Note, Nov-Dec, 2022
In the lead article to this issue, Tadd Graham Fernée examines the relationship between the Enlightenment and Gandhian thought, and the ways in which the freedom movement in India was influenced by and reflected the latter. While Gandhi was clearly…
Editorial Note, Sep-Oct, 2022
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…
Editorial Note, Jul-Aug, 2022
Besides being inherently controversial with implications for freedom of choice of religion, anti-conversion laws run into a long-standing practice among oppressed sections even within the majority community: that of opting for conversion as a form of protest. This issue has…
Editorial Note, May-Jun, 2022
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…
Editorial Note, Mar-Apr, 2022
This issue of Social Scientist, concerned predominantly with historical questions, begins with an article by Sanjeev Kumar on what he sees as a contemporary effort on the part of distinct social entities to face the challenge of post-colonial efforts to…
Editorial Note, Jan-Feb, 2022
This issue of Social Scientist marks the beginning of the 50th year of its publication. The editorial board would like to thank the founding and former editors, authors, readers, referees and advertisers who helped ensure this long and successful record…
Editorial Note, Nov-Dec, 2021
We had brought out very recently a special number celebrating the ninetieth birthday of Professor Irfan Habib, the renowned historian. The current issue is another special number that celebrates the ninetieth birthday of another renowned historian, Professor Romila Thapar. We…
Editorial Note, Jul-Aug, 2021
To mark the completion of 25 years since the initiation of the decentralised planning experiment in Kerala, this issue leads with an article by Thomas Isaac who played a leading role in that movement since its inception. Beginning with a…