We must begin with an apology to our subscribers and readers. The Covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed affected Social Scientist’s production schedule. With offices closed and the press shut down, we had to postpone publication of the March–April…
Kerala is a state that has won acclaim for its early achievements in the area of women’s rights and well-being. These early successes paid it valuable social dividends in terms of its high educational and health attainments, and a progressive…
I am extremely thankful to the Andhra Pradesh History Congress for having given me the opportunity to deliver the presidential address for the Historiography section. I have chosen communalism as my theme. There is a background to this and I…
The fact that during the period of British rule India was a large importer of gold, has led to many misconceptions. Some writers from Britain denied that there could be a drain of wealth from India, when its population was…
Lack of planning and preparation by the central government for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a massive blow to India’s economy and has caused enormous hardships to working people of the country. The informal rural economy has been hit…
In the current scenario of all-round economic slowdown, the focus has been on the manufacturing sector in particular and non-agrarian sector in general, just as it was in 1993 at the inauguration of India’s liberalisation. A mistake was committed then,…
Regulatory law is like a palimpsest wherein one can see the imprints of earlier precedents and laws. This paper outlines the evolution of the commodity derivatives market and its regulatory architecture in India, and examines how certain regulatory practices such…
Numismatic evidence has played an important role in the reconstruction of the early history of the Indian subcontinent. It is primarily in the socioeconomic, religious and political discourses of a region that one is able to find the rightful place…
The early medieval period of Indian history was for a long time considered as the age of decline and decay. The Gupta age (4th–5th century) was labelled as the zenith of political and socio-cultural development and its decline resulted in…
The period of the last three months, as India has attempted to brace itself to meet the onslaught of an exponential rise in number of Covid-19 cases in spite of having enforced a lockdown in four stages, has borne witness…