The folk music of Paite can broadly be categorised into four periods of time: prior to 1600; from 1600 to 1940; from 1940 to 1990; from 1990 onwards. The stage of ‘prior to 1600’ was the ancient remote past, the…
This is not an obituary in the formal sense. Nor is it an appreciation of Aijaz Ahmad’s life and work. In the days to come, we will engage with his important and enormously erudite corpus, as we come to terms…
For several decades, our understanding of ancient, and what has now been acknowledged as early medieval India, has been slowly but steadily transformed. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu was amongst the scholars nurtured in the post-Independence era who contributed consistently and substantially…
Inequality in Education: Towards a Consensualisation of Status Quo Vikas Gupta, Rama Kant Agnihotri and Minati Panda, eds, Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2021, 776 pages, Rs 1650 A Look into the World of Women’s…
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…
It is widely known that Gandhi, for most of the long period of the freedom movement that he led, was indifferent to the claims of what has come to be called ‘secularism’. In fact, ‘secularism’ was not a concept that…
I will devote a significant part of this paper to discussion of the state of the social sciences in the United States. I’ll not apologise for this. It is simply because, by virtue of the sheer numbers of social scientists…
Communicating public health crises effectively and accurately to the people has remained a serious concern throughout the last century. Media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many systemic issues associated with the functioning of the mainstream media across the…
The discipline of International Relations has had confused intellectual beginnings. Debates regarding the origins of the field have culminated in a scholarly consensus of three great debates which defined the subject matter, methodology and object of analysis of the discipline.…
Jacob Eapen, who passed away on 13 January 2022, was one of the founding members of Social Scientist, having been attracted towards the Left movement, which the journal was meant to serve, in the mid-sixties.