The indigenous educational institutions had their own history of evolution and had been known as the repositories of knowledge. There was a set structure and curriculum and they often thrived on the patronage given by the ruling class/elite/local magnate. However,…
The growing concern for the health and well-being of women in India from around the middle of the nineteenth century prompted the need for women medical professionals to serve in India. The London School of Medicine for Women was established…
Frank Broeze describes port cities as the gateways through which particular regions of the world are connected with overseas. As true ‘brides of the sea’, port cities integrate their hinterlands and forelands in dynamic union, giving birth to urban communities…
Only five days were left for the New Grand Circus camp to shift from Belgaum, bordering Karnataka and Maharashtra. Small loads were already being sent in trucks to the next camping site. Though a workers’ union had already born by…
Professor Puran Chand Joshi, the renowned economist and social scientist, passed away on 2 March 2014 after a prolonged illness. He will always be remembered for his contributions as a teacher and researcher to holistic development and agrarian studies. He…
There was something unreal about Nirmal Kumar Chandra, the renowned economist, who passed away on 19 March 2014. Totally free of any malice, totally devoid of any pettiness and totally free of any desire to get into the limelight, indeed…
Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology, Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, 2012, 191 pages, Rs 350 Charu Gupta, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2012, viii+394 pages, Rs 845.
Braja Mohan Sharma was a leading member of the legal profession in Guwahati and a major Left thinker and activist, whose untimely death robbed the progressive movement in Assam of a precious asset. An annual lecture has been instituted in…
As I was walking down from the dais after delivering this lecture, a gentleman from the audience stepped up to me with the question: The title of your lecture is a query. Please tell me what your answer is. Is…
The inter-war Great Depression, one of the most interesting periods in the history of modern capitalism, saw an effective transfer of global power from Britain to the USA. Apart from plunging the capitalist world into a deflationary spiral of falling…