Editorials
Racism is at the core of the assault on three African students in the Delhi Metro.
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Margin Speak
The Sangh Parivar had better understand that their "Hindu" model is never going to work. The more they drive their supremacist project, the more they would alienate people.
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Commentary
The world of manual scavenging is informed by caste, patriarchy, filth and humiliation. Their only source of "power" comes from politicians considering them a vote bank; yet, without truly understanding their lives, aspirations, and...
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Commentary
This article explores the possible implication of amending the Contract Labour Act, 1970 and questions the rationale behind amending the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
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Commentary
The failure by the police to file a First Information Report is the subject of much debate but the Final Report by which a case is closed has received scant attention. This article reflects on the findings following a study of 100 Final Reports...
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Commentary
The culture of too much hygiene in rapid, unplanned urbanising society with poor infrastructure exposes urban spaces to a particular risk brought about by unchecked use of technology. This article looks at the indiscriminate use of antibiotics...
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Commentary
The Central Government Health Scheme provides health services to three million government employees, pensioners and their dependents with the second being the fastest growing segment. However, a scheme that started with a lot of promise has got...
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Commentary
Few historians of modern India have had as much widespread influence as did Bipan Chandra. A popular and engaged teacher, history research and writing was never a dispassionate exercise for him. His contributions to Marxist and nationalist...
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Commentary
Bipan Chandra's contribution to the historiography of Indian nationalist thought was decisive and unparalleled. A scholar who saw immense value in a Marxist reading of history, his sorties into India's post-1947 political history laid him...
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Book Reviews
India's Evolving Economy: Puzzles and Perspectives by A Vaidyanathan (Delhi: Academic Foundation), 2014; pp 348, Rs 1,195, hardback.
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Book Reviews
Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy by Deepak Nayyar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2014; pp xi + 221, Rs 695.
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Perspectives
Following the ascendancy of Hindutvavadi nationalism over its "secular" counterpart, and a majority, Modi-led government in power at the centre, semi-fascism is in the making in a milieu characterised by monstrous class polarisation, a...
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Special Articles
Protests following the 16 December 2012 gang rape in Delhi led to reform of rape laws in India. Through a detailed analysis of the history of medical jurisprudence textbooks and their use in case law, this paper argues that these textbooks...
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Special Articles
In his reading of the Quran, Asghar Ali Engineer emphasises the egalitarian promise of politics in Islam. A truly Islamic politics is defined in terms of liberation of the underprivileged masses which, according to him, is part of the Quranic...
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Special Articles
Kautilya's Arthashastra has increasingly become a source of intellectual inspiration for scholars particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of theorisation in Indian international relations. However, they mostly compare...
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Notes
This article explores the nature and attributes of caste in the Barak Valley, situated in south Assam. It draws upon the Gramscian concept of hegemony and ideological domination to illustrate the silence of the Bengali dalits there. While caste...
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