Narendra Modi’s fantasy about undoing the asymmetric annexation of Kashmir with India is an old one. In an undated video he claimed to have led a march from Kanayakumari to Srinagar and unfurled the tricolour at Lal Chowk in 1992…
It was the call of azadi that first brought us out of our homes. All of us – women, men, the young and the aged – came out from villages and towns in support of it. My mother also rallied…
The wide swathe of land called Kashmir has, from time immemorial, been imagined as a heavenly setting, a spiritual space with parallels drawn with the ultimate of divine creation, heaven. Located at the crossroads of civilisations like the Aryan, Chinese,…
Kashmir has not always been the way we know it today. Till recently it had its own state flag, red in colour with a white plough at its centre. This flag represented the past struggles of its people and their…
In a little over six months, two outstanding teachers-researchers in the field of Economics have left us. N. Krishnaji, 83, passed away in Hyderabad last year on 6 November and A. Vaidyanathan, 89, in Coimbatore on 10 June this year.
Shama Mitra Chenoy (edited, translated and annotated), Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair ul Manazil, Oxford University Press, 2018, 320 pages, Rs 995 In the discipline of history, working with primary sources in Persian is a…
We must begin with an apology to our subscribers and readers. The Covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed affected Social Scientist’s production schedule. With offices closed and the press shut down, we had to postpone publication of the March–April…
Kerala is a state that has won acclaim for its early achievements in the area of women’s rights and well-being. These early successes paid it valuable social dividends in terms of its high educational and health attainments, and a progressive…
I am extremely thankful to the Andhra Pradesh History Congress for having given me the opportunity to deliver the presidential address for the Historiography section. I have chosen communalism as my theme. There is a background to this and I…
The fact that during the period of British rule India was a large importer of gold, has led to many misconceptions. Some writers from Britain denied that there could be a drain of wealth from India, when its population was…