Amitava Chatterjee, People at Large: Popular Culture in Modern Bengal, Setu Prakashani, Kolkata, 2012, xiii+184 pages, Rs 235. Raziuddin Aquil and Kaushik Roy, eds., Warfare, Religion, and Society in Indian History, Manohar, New Delhi, 2012, 341 pages, Rs 995. Vijaya…
A comprehensive essay by Sukumar Muralidharan on ‘The Nation and Its Citizens’ constitutes the lead article in the current number of Social Scientist. The article sets the stage for a discussion of what should be the nature of political praxis…
In rounding off an account of nations and nationalism, the historian E.J. Hobsbawm refers to Hegel’s nineteenth-century dictum that the owl of Minerva which brings wisdom, flies out at dusk. This maxim summarises a broader Hegelian observation on the nature…
Like all other sectors, agricultural credit supports agricultural production through two channels: meeting short-term working capital needs and longterm investment needs in the sector. It is estimated that about 95 per cent of the agricultural machinery in India is procured…
I would briefly describe in this paper the general character of the Santal Rebellion (1855–1856) and certain incidents of the rebellion turned out to be a foremost peasant upsurge in Bengal during the first half of the eighteenth century and…
As the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death spread through New Delhi, one of the people it reached was an American graduate student named Granville Austin who was writing a thesis on the making of the Indian constitution and thus had…
Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India, Foundation Books, Delhi, 2012, 177 pages, Rs. 695/- Discourses on health and medicine in colonial India were never isolated. Rather, these often got intertwined with several other discourses on caste, class,…
The current issue of Social Scientist is devoted to a discussion of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced by Delhi University recently in lieu of its earlier three year programme, which had been long in existence and whose duration…
25 June 2013, New Delhi. Third US–India Higher Education Dialogue, co-chaired by US Secretary of State John Kerry and India’s Minister of Human Resource Development M.M. Pallam Raju. Apart from the senior policy makers and heads of regulatory bodies (e.g.…
The University of Delhi has been one of the premier institutions of postsecondary education in India for almost ninety years. Although it is named after the city in which it is located – a city renowned as a seat of…