Book Reviews Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, 211 pages, Rs 495. Intellectuals always struggle with the question of relevance of their work in the face of the…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali’s address as the General President of the Indian History Congress session in 2017 is the lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist. At a time when dissent is being suppressed in the country by forces…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali’s address as the General President of the Indian History Congress session in 2017 is the lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist. At a time when dissent is being suppressed in the country by forces…
The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 (Gregorian calendar) was thedefining event not only of what Hobsbawm has called the short twentiethcentury, that is, from 1917, to the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also of the period…
The Russian revolution in 1917 inaugurated a new world order marked by the promise of socialism that not only altered the future course of backward Russia but posed a serious challenge to capitalist hegemony across the world. This grand experiment,…
The period of economic reforms has been seen as one of increasing economic inequality both globally and in India. The World Economic Forum in its Global Risks Report 2012 and Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 identified severe income disparities…
Studies of tea plantations generally tend to start at a point when the gardens have already come into being. So dominant becomes the presence of miles after miles of garden acreage in a region, say in the Duars or Assam,…
Recent studies of the contemporary situation of labour in neoliberal economies and of labour movements have emphasized a ‘decline of trade unionism’. This assessment is widespread and holds true for India, especially when we consider that the period following large-scale…
The current number of Social Scientist is the second and final one discussing the work and life of György Lukács, the Marxist philosopher and literary theorist. Perhaps no other person’s life straddles so comprehensively the vast expanse of twentieth-century socialist…
The purpose of this note is to look at certain formulations in Györg Lukács’ little booklet called Lenin, published in 1924, shortly after Lenin’s death, and to examine whether their validity extends beyond the specific historical context in which they…