The western medical policy was initiated in Bengal by the colonial government during the early eighteenth century and expanded in a large scale thereafter. This work engages in revealing the attitude of the colonial government towards western medicine vis-à-vis traditional…
In 1893 in Singhbhum, located in south-eastern Chotanagpur plateau (present day Jharkhand), the British, preparing to initiate a new survey and settlement operation in the region, were vexed with a dilemma. There was widespread unrest in the adjoining regions and…
What was remarkable about Ashok Mitra, who passed away on 1 May 2018, was his steadfast commitment to the cause of the people. A telling episode he records in his autobiography may explain how he came to acquire his sympathies.…
Biswamoy Pati passed away on 24 June 2017 at a hospital near Delhi after undergoing a routine surgical investigation. His most untimely death had come as a great shock to his friends, colleagues, students and the community of historians both…
Book Reviews Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, 211 pages, Rs 495. Intellectuals always struggle with the question of relevance of their work in the face of the…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali’s address as the General President of the Indian History Congress session in 2017 is the lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist. At a time when dissent is being suppressed in the country by forces…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali’s address as the General President of the Indian History Congress session in 2017 is the lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist. At a time when dissent is being suppressed in the country by forces…
The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 (Gregorian calendar) was thedefining event not only of what Hobsbawm has called the short twentiethcentury, that is, from 1917, to the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also of the period…
The Russian revolution in 1917 inaugurated a new world order marked by the promise of socialism that not only altered the future course of backward Russia but posed a serious challenge to capitalist hegemony across the world. This grand experiment,…
The period of economic reforms has been seen as one of increasing economic inequality both globally and in India. The World Economic Forum in its Global Risks Report 2012 and Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 identified severe income disparities…