The educational ‘reforms’ we are witnessing today in India are usually attributed to the changing requirements of the economic system. This is no doubt true, but in addition they are also meant to serve the needs of the new ‘Ideological…
K.S. Krishnaswamy who passed away in June this year [2013] was an outstanding economist who, along with his contemporaries I.G. Patel and K.N. Raj, formed the core of the group of economists that succeeded the earlier trio of V.K.R.V. Rao,…
Kunwar Muhammad Ashraf was an outstanding Marxist intellectual who died in 1962. An active participant in the anti-colonial struggle, he was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), and served as Secretary to both Maulana Azad and Jawaharlal…
As we see religions now, they appear to be organised systems of belief and practice, with an emphasis on some form of afterlife. In general, they claim to derive their authority from what their followers hold to be texts or…
The Wahabis or, as they preferred to identify themselves, Ahle Hadis, followers of Saiyid Ahmad Bareilvi, are portrayed by K.M. Ashraf as playing a decisive role in organising the 1857 uprising of sepoys. They are given credit for being armed…
That the Internet has changed the way news is gathered, processed and delivered can no longer be denied. But a question that is increasingly posed is whether news as business is fundamentally threatened as a result, or, as some argue,…
Sustainable development is taken to mean meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Unsustainable development compromises the land and her riches, and future generations meet their needs with unpredictable State apparatus. …
In the early twentieth century, history became a matter of public passion in Bengal. Placed in the well-developed public sphere of Bengal that became the locus of all political and intellectual activities, history transformed into a ‘major site through which,…
The ‘medical needs’ of India were championed by the Association of Medical Women in India (AMWI) at the beginning of the twentieth century, twenty years after the establishment of the Dufferin Fund. This Association, representing the professional interests of British…
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