Obituary: Manager Pandey
Manager Pandey, one of the most significant Marxist literary critics in Hindi, breathed his last on the morning of 6 November 2022 after ailing for a long time. He was 81. What distinguished him from his peers was his firm…
Book Reviews
Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Nationalism in India, with an Introduction by Amrita Basu, New Delhi: Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, 282 pages, Rs 695 Subhoranjan Dasgupta Suranjan Das, ed., Gandhi and Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings, New Delhi: Primus Books,…
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…
Educational and Curricular Restructuring: Neo-Conservative Agendas in Gujarat
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…
Educational Inequities in Colonial India and the Agency of Teacher: Lens of Molvi Zaka Ullah
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 Historian and the Polyphony of Sources: The Complex Panipat Years in Maratha History
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…
Interrogating Progress in Addressing Malnutrition in India
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,…
Social Disadvantage and Child Mortality in India: 1993–2019
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…
Understanding Trends in Spousal Violence in India
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…
OBITUARY: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya (1939–2022)
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…