The attack on history and Indian historians by votaries of Hindu historiography has only sharpened in recent times. There is an attempt to use S N Balagangadhara's critique of history writing as an expression of the "colonial...
The rise of right-wing politics in India is built on the fragmented nature of the struggles waged by the oppressed who constitute the vast majority of the population: "lower" castes, adivasis, working classes and peasants, women,...
The United States Supreme Court's 29 April 2014 opinion has in it the elements of both further pressure on India for providing greater access to US markets for renewable energy technologies and relevance for the resolution of India's...
A tribute to the Tamil doctor, feminist and human rights defender of Jaffna, Rajani Thiranagama, on her 25th death anniversary. She was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This is an occasion to revisit the issues of self-...
Keith Hart is an academic with multifaceted interests. He developed the idea of the "informal economy" and is now working on the "human economy". He has also written on money, the internet, and the European Union. He has an...
Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in a Tea Pot by Soma Chaudhuri (New Delhi: Foundation Books), 2014; pp xiii + 193, Rs 695.
Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India by Kavita Daiya ((Delhi: Yoda Press), 3rd edition; first published in 2008 by US: Temple University Press), 2013; pp 272, Rs 405.
This article questions the ways in which certain Muslim/Islamist groups engaged with the "Kiss of Love" protests in Kerala. These protests openly challenged certain dominant perspectives about the "body", sex and morality,...
Social movements that succeed in mobilising the masses subsequently attempt to institutionalise themselves. Moving from the domain of civil society into the realm of state politics, the leadership can change its goals and transformative...
The paper analyses the changing leadership in computer and information services exports in the world. Leadership, measured in terms of export shares, appears to have moved from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany to Ireland and then to...
The introduction of the Liquidity Adjustment Facility as an operating procedure for monetary policy in the post-reform period is a landmark event for monetary policy. This paper finds a structural break in the post-reform period corresponding to...
This study identifies 11 issues that have inhibited the spread of a comprehensive sanitation programme. It emphasises the complexity of issues and helps avoid the facile targeting of the poor as
