The Mughal social structure, in line with the Islamic sharia, recognised fosterage as a legally valid relationship, enjoying social acceptability and legal protection. Fosterage not only created possibilities of new familial connections that co-exited with unilateral relations through blood, but…
The western medical policy was initiated in Bengal by the colonial government during the early eighteenth century and expanded in a large scale thereafter. This work engages in revealing the attitude of the colonial government towards western medicine vis-à-vis traditional…
In 1893 in Singhbhum, located in south-eastern Chotanagpur plateau (present day Jharkhand), the British, preparing to initiate a new survey and settlement operation in the region, were vexed with a dilemma. There was widespread unrest in the adjoining regions and…
The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 (Gregorian calendar) was thedefining event not only of what Hobsbawm has called the short twentiethcentury, that is, from 1917, to the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also of the period…
The Russian revolution in 1917 inaugurated a new world order marked by the promise of socialism that not only altered the future course of backward Russia but posed a serious challenge to capitalist hegemony across the world. This grand experiment,…
The period of economic reforms has been seen as one of increasing economic inequality both globally and in India. The World Economic Forum in its Global Risks Report 2012 and Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 identified severe income disparities…
Studies of tea plantations generally tend to start at a point when the gardens have already come into being. So dominant becomes the presence of miles after miles of garden acreage in a region, say in the Duars or Assam,…
The purpose of this note is to look at certain formulations in Györg Lukács’ little booklet called Lenin, published in 1924, shortly after Lenin’s death, and to examine whether their validity extends beyond the specific historical context in which they…
The young Lukács sought the transcendence of soul and form, self and objectifications, the antinomies of ideas and reality. His early work and early essays in the Hungarian and German press, the essays of Soul and Form, The History of…
The intellectual biography of Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is fundamentally connected to the political transformation processes and revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century: starting with Lukács’ early occupation with aesthetic questions and his turn to the communist movement in 1917–18, continuing…