Racist attacks against Africans and the latter’s measured reaction made headlines in the Indian media in March–April this year. Responding to the deplorable incidents of violence against African students, the African community in India called for an independent investigation, while…
My twenty-year undergraduate teaching career in Delhi University was long enough for me to have been aware of Biswamoy Pati’s name, and his activist DUTA career. I was in a sense re-introduced to Biswamoy (I always called him that rather…
Prabhat Kumar Shukla, Neel ki Kheti aur Angrezi Raj: Bihar mein Kisano ka Pratirodh 1780–1917 (Hindi), Anamika, New Delhi, 2017, 190 pages + Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary and Index, Rs 550 Most scholarly works in the social sciences in India continue…
The last few weeks have been quite tragic for our journal. We lost our book review editor Biswamoy Pati, a brilliant historian at Delhi University, a popular teacher, and a person of boundless energy who brought young historians together to…
Latin America has been the only continent in which post-neoliberal choices were adopted in a number of countries. After a series of military dictatorships, supported by the United States and ushered in by the neoliberal project, it was not long…
In light of the above observation – reviewing the factors affecting entitlements – it can be argued that the living standard of the organised manufacturing sector workers in India have hardly improved in the last three decades. Additionally, there is…
To say that the eighteenth century is one of the few periods of Indian history that continues to engender extensive polemics and valuable scholarship, is now somewhat of a cliché. Yet it continues to hold true. As if the almost…
The recent decades have witnessed a heightened academic engagement with the role of women in social movements. This comes in the wake of a substantial surge in the participation of women in trade unions, human rights struggles, militant movements, and…
The Mughal warfare was centred on the mobile force of the cavalry. Therefore, good horses, especially foreign and imported horses like the Arabian, Persian, Turki and Tazi horses played a significant role at the Mughal court and also in the…
The sudden passing away of Biswamoy Pati on 24 June 2017 came as a shock to all his friends, colleagues, students and fellow-activists. Born in 1955, Biswamoy went to school in Cuttack. He graduated from the University of Delhi where…