Global expansion of western countries can be divided into pre-capitalist and capitalist epochs. The former marked the import of goods and export of bullion in order to purchase goods for the growing demand in the home market, whereas the latter…
Use of chemical fertilisers has been key to agricultural growth in India since the 1970s. Widespread adoption of chemical fertilisers along with other modern inputs became possible because of specific policies that were introduced in the wake of the Green…
When we came amongst them (the Andamanese) and admitted the air of the outside world, with consequent changes, to suit our necessities, not theirs, they lost their vitality, which was wholly dependent on being untouched . . . the end…
India is in a state of deep turmoil. There was an economic slowdown even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country. To deal with the pandemic, the Modi government decided to lock down the economy for close to three months,…
The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 states: ‘for accelerated agricultural development in the country, it is necessary to protect plant breeders’ rights to stimulate investment for research and development, both in the public and private sector,…
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and theMuslims, Eighth to Fourteenth Century, Delhi: Primus Books, 2017. A brilliant essay in historiography, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya’s Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims, Eighth to Fourteenth Century is a bitter pill…
We had meant to bring out this special number on Kashmir earlier, but Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdown delayed its appearance to coincide with the first anniversary of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution, and…
Kashmir’s sale to Gulab Singh was disapproved by a section of the British. The London newspapers, which did not like the sale, attributed every kind of treachery and ingratitude to him. Even Hardinge, who had transferred Kashmir to the Dogra…
The spring of 2020 in the Kashmir Valley is beautiful. It is the rainy season when almonds blossom amidst verdant greenery punctuated with swathes of narcissus and dancing daffodil, tulip in full flower, the bulbul hopping and playing in the…
On 5 and 6 August 2019, President Ram Nath Kovind issued two orders removing Jammu & Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. Three days later, India’s parliament passed the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which divided…