We take as the lead article in the current number of Social Scientist the Presidential Address by Zoya Hasan to the Contemporary India section of the Indian History Congress that was held recently at Kannur. The paper traces the decline…
Indian History Congress is the country’s premier body of historians which has nurtured generations of scholars, and remains the most important platform for exchange of ideas and for the presentation of rich historical research to a larger audience. It has…
In a manner of speaking, my object here is that elusive question, which some years before formally quitting academia the social anthropologist Declan Quigley had explicitly posed, namely, ‘Is a theory of caste still possible?’ But far from answering it…
Now that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for ‘their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’, it…
Devolution of power with the Morley–Minto reforms led to jostling for political space among various groups and communities. The issue of representation in governmental bodies and institutions set the stage for intensification of identity politics in colonial India.
The study of labour migration requires combining the skills and approaches of scholars from several disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, sociology, law, political science, and history. Migration between one area and another within the same country as also between…
Walter Hauser, The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha 1929–1942: A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2019, 265 pages, Rs 1295 Following the publication last year of an English translation of the memoirs of the…