The field of action is not in a movement, in a party, but in everyday life, in behaviour, in the relationship to people: in the forms of life. – Ágnes Heller and János Kõbányai, The Cycling Monkey, an autobiographical interview…
In recent years, India has drawn the attention of global investors, policy makers and media for maintaining a stunning economic growth rate of 7–9 per cent until recently, while the United States and the European Union are experiencing low growth…
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) a three day seminar centred around the theme ‘Secularism and the Arts’ was organised from 26 to 28 September 2013. The seminar was held in the environs…
Govind Purushottam Deshpande, renowned Marxist scholar, Marathi playwright, and Professor of China Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in his professional academic career, who passed away on October 16, occupied a unique position in the intellectual universe of the country.…
G.S.Bhalla, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University will be greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues apart from his immediate family. His open and generous personality endeared him to all who knew him. It is all the more a pity…
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…