In the lead article to this issue Swarup K. Chakrabarti, Amartya Chowdhury, Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay and Suranjan Das discuss the role of stigmatisation in determining the collateral fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using insights from the conceptual and empirical literature on…
The world witnessed one of the major pandemic events in 1918, wherein approximately 50 to 100 million lives, or about 5 per cent of the global population, were lost due to the H1N1 (influenza) virus (Oxford 2000). About half a…
Crises are endemic to capitalism. There were 38 banking, currency and twin (combining both) crises in developed countries and emerging markets during the period 1945–71, and 49 during the period 1919–39 (Joyce 2013: 33). Between 1970 and 2011, there were…
In the decades preceding the pandemic, India and China were often posited as the ‘success stories’ of contemporary globalisation. High and sustained rates of growth of aggregate and per capita national income, phenomenal growth in trade and investment flows, and…
How is it that the historian theorises? How is it that the historian can tell their stories about the past that survives in the present and informs the future? What can history and theory become when it seeks to confront…
A memoriam for an academic in a scholarly journal like Social Scientist must be of a different tone and tenor than what I pen here for Nabila Sadiq. For me she was, first and foremost, a person, a very beautiful…
Sanjay Kumar and Jugal Kishore, Public Health Care in India: Historical Background and Current Realities, New Delhi: Century Publications, 2020, 288 pages, Rs 450. Sanjay Kumar and Jugal Kishore’s book, Public Health Care in India: Historical Background and Current Realities,…