I was invited to a seminar in Toronto a few years back. I was supposed to read a paper, but I danced as well – a kind of ‘food for thought’ presentation, if you like. A lecture–demonstration, except I was…

The proponents of British rule, in their bid to demonstrate their loyalty to the colonial regime, popularised the view that south India from the earliest historical times was divided into a number of small kingdoms that were continually at war…

A disturbing aspect of postcolonial science studies is that for some of its adherents, the content of science does not matter. For them science studies can thrive minus the science. The consequences of this mentality are of great interest because…

The concept of a minority educational institution was brought into legal discourse for the first time by the Constitution of India (effective as of 26 January 1950) in its Part III (‘Fundamental Rights’), under the rubric of ‘Cultural and Educational…

We are writing this in the context of the frenetic campaign that was conducted before and during the general elections. Since at least one major contestant party has tried to controvert an exercise of parliamentary elections into an individual-centric, quasi-presidential…

The heterotopia of Westfort Leprosy Hospital and Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital was inspired by a reform vision combining compulsory segregation of leprosy patients and institutional confinement of psychiatric patients, with moral–therapeutic landscaping. These regimes in turn were linked to precepts of…