Understanding how a particular society comprehends, construes and represents love is significant from the point of view of cultural, emotional and literary history. Love has been a prominent theme in Sanskrit literature\ from the earliest times. Often referred to as…
Suranjan Das and Achintya Kumar Dutta (eds.), Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal: Cholera, Malaria and Smallpox, A Documentation, Delhi: Primus, 2021, pages i–viii+397, Rs 1250. Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell, Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History,…
As lead article for this issue, we carry the text of the annual S.C. Mishra Memorial Lecture delivered by Mridula Mukherjee, which examines the historical antecedent of peasant protests in the Punjab, over four decades prior to India’s Independence. Strongly…
As I speak, the kisans of Punjab, as well as of other parts of India, are engaged in what they see as a life and death struggle with the Government of India. For them, it is a struggle not only…
The currency question engaged a cross-section of interests in colonial India – importers, exporters, industrialists and farmers, as also the governments in British India and in Great Britain – making it a topic of rigorous debate in the society of…
The social reform movement initiated by male intellectuals in nineteenthcentury Andhra had a positive impact on women. It led to the emergence of a women’s movement in colonial Andhra from the dawn of the twentieth century. Women became conscious of…
It was a sunny afternoon on 29 December 1970 on the campus of the University of Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) as established in 1956 but renamed Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya on 7 June 1983 (to honour the well-known valorous Gond Queen of…
When Dwijendra Narayan Jha (‘DN’ to his friends and admirers) passed away in his sleep on 4 February 2021, Indian history lost one of its most devoted servitors – one deeply immersed in sources and yet as immensely clearheaded. DN,…
Professor Sunil Kumar, distinguished historian and teacher, passed away on 17 January 2021 at the age of sixty-four. He had been unwell for some time, but there was nothing to indicate that the end was so near. Sunil Kumar had…
Nilanjan Sarkar and Vikas K. Verma (eds), Streaming the Past Peninsular India in History: Essays in Honour of T. K. Venkatasubramaniam, Delhi: Primus Books, 2019, 372 pages, Rs 1200 This book in honour of Professor T.K. Venkatasubramaniam, with an enchanting…