In 1911, after five decades of relative political obscurity on the map of political influence in British India following the Revolt of 1857, Delhi, the old seat of the Mughal emperor, was rechristened as the capital of the British Indian…
Hermann Kulke, History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates, English edition revised and edited by Bharabi Prasad Sahu, New Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press, 2018, 383 pages, Rs 1195 The book was originally published in the year 2005 as a volume…
Often in the course of a liberation movement an incident occurs, which expresses the irreconcilable antagonism between the rulers and the ruled; it negates any possibility of their future coexistence by revealing to all in one dazzling moment the true…
The First World War (1914–18) came to an end when, in November 1918, Germany signed the Armistice with the victorious Allies (Britain, France and the United States); Germany’s own allies, Turkey and Austria–Hungary, had already done so. In this war…
On 18 March 1922, Gandhiji faced a trial in Ahmedabad on the charge of sedition for writing and publishing ‘three seditious and inflammatory articles’ in his weekly paper Young India during the previous year 1921. This aroused considerable interest not…
We live in a globalised and digitised age. Some of us receive news of friends through the internet, transact our purchases through the internet, conduct businesses through the internet, even receive our medicine through the internet. The richest four persons…
Out of 547 Jātaka stories, eight describe the caṇḍālas. Out of these eight stories, half contain passing references about this social class, but at least four are stories where the protagonists themselves are caṇḍālas. In those four stories which are…
In the present issue of Social Scientist we continue with our series on Gandhi, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, with two more articles on him. The lead article by Gulammmohammed Sheikh, the renowned painter from Baroda, is…
The Indian handloom industry is presently estimated to produce goods valued at around $108 billion. Nearly 27 lakh households across the country are employed in this sector. It is one of the major contributors to exports with a share of…
We continue our discussion of Gandhi on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary with three more articles on him in the current issue of Social Scientist. Our interest in Gandhi is not a scholastic one; we engage with him…