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…
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…
The story of civilisational progress and decadence is one of mankind’s tryst with history and, an account of its capability to preserve the feats of development. It is also a constant race with time, wherein one civilisation may not cope…
In modern Tamil Nadu social protest and anti-caste movements are always attributed to the Dravidian movement and E.V.R. Periyar. Individuals and organisations who played an active part earlier in challenging the odious system of caste and practice of social discrimination…
During the period between fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, Karnataka was ruled by kingdoms such as the Hoysala and Vijayanagara. This was a period that witnessed major political developments, including the decline of the Hoysalas and the rise of the Vijayanagara…