Editorial Note, Sep-Oct, 2015

The lead article of the current issue of Social Scientist is the Presidential address by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya to the Indian History Congress at its Platinum Jubilee session held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in December 2014. In this remarkable tour de force, Chattopadhyaya raises the highly pertinent question: in the oft-emphasised description of India as constituting a ‘unity-in-diversity’, what exactly does ‘unity’ consist in?