Book Reviews
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.
Editorial Note, Jan-Feb, 2014
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…
Can law help Women to survive?
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…
India in the World Economy 1900 to 1935 : The inter-War Depression and Britain’s Demise as World Capitalist leader
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…
Public Action and the Print Media in Kerala : A Historical Analysis , 1923–1965
This paper analyses the role of print media in responding to specific struggles and debates related to the livelihood of people in the state of Kerala in India between 1923 and 1965. It employs an analysis of newspaper reports in…
Forest Rights Act : Towards the End of struggle for Tribals?
Tribals, who are a continuously neglected lot, are the Forest Dependent People (FDP) in India. Their deprived condition was recognised by the framers of Indian Constitution; hence they were identified for special= protection by notification as ‘Scheduled Tribes’ through the…
Book Reviews
Nitya Ramakrishnan, In Custody: Law, Impunity and Prisoner abuse in South asia, Delhi, jointly published by SAGE Publications India and South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), 2013, 452 pages, Rs 995. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, The Changing Gaze: Regions and the…
Editorial Note, Nov-Dec, 2013
On 26–28 September this year, Sahmat had organised a seminar in Delhi on ‘Secularism and the Arts’ with the participation of several distinguished artists and intellectuals. This seminar was important because the content of secularism is something on which opinions…
The Secular Mode for India
In addressing the subject of secularism, or perhaps what I prefer to refer to as the secularising of Indian society, I would like to touch on a few aspects that I think need attention. The prevalent Indian understanding of secularism…
Towards Equality
I thank my younger friends in Punarnaba and the Centre for Marxian Studies for their invitation to deliver the Vina Mazumdar Memorial Lecture quite soon after we lost her earlier this year. It is both an honour and a responsibility,…