‘Classically Yours’
The word is a curious being. Written or spoken, seen or heard, I find her –the word – to be fascinating. The Word as 'She' I know that in the English language only living beings, only those that breathe, are…
The Rhythms of Change and Devastation: Colonial Capitalism and the World of the Socially Excluded in Orissa
The diverse and inter-related processes that were intrinsically connected with the ‘development’ of colonial capitalism in Orissa are explored in this article. The aim is to broadly integrate the diversities of the region in order to focus on and unravel…
‘Globalized’ and ‘Decoupled’: Indian Economy in the Era of Global Crisis
This study would like to present theoretical and empirical critique of ‘globalized India’ and would like to challenge the myriad myths that surround the beneficial effects of neoliberal policies. According to the protagonists of reform Indian economy became a vibrant…
Aligarh Muslim University : A Study of the Critical Period of Transition
In the early and middle 1940s, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) assumed a political garb that it had never worn before ¯ a vocal centre for the demand for Pakistan, of which (even in the official League map of Pakistan),…
Book Reviews
The Republic of Reason – Words They Could Not Kill: Selected Writings of Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi, Sahmat, New Delhi, 2015, 120 pages, Rs 120 Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2016, 180 pages, Rs 895…
Editorial Note, May-Jun, 2016
It is often claimed that in contrast to the semitic religions, which are imbued with a proselytising drive and are therefore intrinsically incapable of settling down to a state of peaceful mutual coexistence, Hinduism is characterised by a certain tolerance…
Brahmanical Intolerance in Early India
The construct of tolerant Hinduism seems to have been of relatively recent origin and seems to have first acquired visibility in Western writings on India. In the seventeenth century, Francois Bernier (1620–1688), the French doctor who travelled widely in India,…
A History of Intolerance: The Representation of Buddhists in the Bengal Puranas
Tolerance and intolerance are not natural faculties of the human mind. They have their own histories which find particular expression in specific spatio-temporal locations. In this essay, I wish to look critically at the claim that Hinduism, unlike the Semitic…
The Smart City Paradigm in India: Issues and Challenges of Sustainability and Inclusiveness
Immediately after assuming power in May 2014, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to set up ‘100 Smart Cities’ throughout the country. With the contribution of urban India to the national GDP…
The ‘Masculine’ Female : The Rise of Women Doctors in Colonial India, c. 1870–1940
Medicine and Gender: An Introduction One of the central features of the women’s health movement that originated in the West in the 1960s and 1970s was to reclaim pregnant women’s bodies from the allegedly authoritative control of the male-dominated medical…