The world capitalist crisis which began in 2007-08 persists, with no end in sight. Its persistence has to do with two major developments, both related to the phenomenon of globalization: the first is a change that occurs in the role…
I feel greatly honoured that I have been asked to deliver the Harold Wolpe memorial lecture for the year 2016. Harold Wolpe was an outstanding thinker who combined political activism for the liberation of the South African people with deep…
In a rear-view mirror, the colonial construction of the idea of the ‘North Eastern Frontier’ was reshaped by partition as a political reality in the form of ‘North East India’ to be integrated with the Nation State. The terra incognita,…
Historical background Concentration of land in the hands of absentee landlords coupled with unprotected tenancy rights, arbitrary and sometimes even forcible ejectment of tenants by landlords, underutilization of cultivable land and increasing exploitation of peasantry under the garb of high…
Natural Rubber (NR) has emerged as a lucky crop in the international market by early 2003 and continued till 2012 (Fox and Castella 2013). India is the fourth largest producer of NR in the world (2012-13) with a share of…
Traditional intellectuals, both Hindu and Muslim, suffered and declined under the impact of the colonial rule in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries in India. Western ideas, as well as the new conditions of economy and society had a crushing…
Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop (eds), Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India, Anthem Press, Delhi, 2015, 254 pages, Rs. 695. Sudha Sharma, The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India. Sage Publications; 2016, 270 pages Rs. 750.
As the lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist we publish the text of K.N. Panikkar’s Chukkapalli Pitchaiah Memorial lecture for 2016, where the author discusses the issue of nationalism. While anti-colonial nationalism in India succeeded in mobilising…
Let me begin by thanking the Chukkapalli Pitchaiah Memorial Trust for selecting me for its prestigious award for the year 2016. It is indeed an honour, an opportunity as well, particularly because it also gives me the privilege of speaking…
I present a theory of exploitation from a Marxist perspective. To situate my theory within existing literature, it is useful to make a couple of contrasts. One, Marx discusses exploitation primarily as a phenomenon in the capitalist mode of production.…