To begin with, let me clarify that I do not wish to approach ‘Europe’s South’ and ‘Global South’ as pregiven, stable, homogenous and bounded entities. I wish to approach them as constructs which have been constructed and reconstructed through various…
Except for the extermination of Tasmanians, modern history recognizes no cases in which the virtually complete supplanting of the indigenous population of a country by an alien stock’s apropriation of their land has been achieved so steadily and ruthlessly. Yet…
India is the corn chest for Scotland, where we poor gentry must send our youngest sons as we send black cattle to the south, - Walter Scott, 1821. The monolithic construction of identities by the imperialist and anti-imperialist historiographies of…
Ali Usman Qasmi, The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan, Anthem Press India, 2015, 278 pages, Rs 695 O.P. Jaiswal and Bijoy Kumar Choudhary (ed.), Archaeology and Art of Ganga, Gandak and Kosi Basin, Bihar: A Felicitation…
The current issue of Social Scientist has as its lead article the text of the Kumar Gandharva Memorial lecture delivered by T.M. Krishna, the renowned vocalist of Karnatic music. Krishna addresses the question: what exactly do we mean by ‘classical’…
The word is a curious being. Written or spoken, seen or heard, I find her –the word – to be fascinating. The Word as 'She' I know that in the English language only living beings, only those that breathe, are…
The diverse and inter-related processes that were intrinsically connected with the ‘development’ of colonial capitalism in Orissa are explored in this article. The aim is to broadly integrate the diversities of the region in order to focus on and unravel…
This study would like to present theoretical and empirical critique of ‘globalized India’ and would like to challenge the myriad myths that surround the beneficial effects of neoliberal policies. According to the protagonists of reform Indian economy became a vibrant…
In the early and middle 1940s, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) assumed a political garb that it had never worn before ¯ a vocal centre for the demand for Pakistan, of which (even in the official League map of Pakistan),…
The Republic of Reason – Words They Could Not Kill: Selected Writings of Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi, Sahmat, New Delhi, 2015, 120 pages, Rs 120 Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2016, 180 pages, Rs 895…