The kosambi effect: a hermeneutic turn that shook indian historiography
Kosambi was a scientist who talked about the past with the politics of intimacy with the present. This paper identifies the "Kosambi effect" and its various constituents. The most crucial constituent...
View ArticleForeign Educational Institutions Bill: The Rhetoric and the Real
The Foreign Educational Institutions Bill 2010 is only a legislative extension of economic liberalisation to the educational sector. The ostensible reasons for the bill, viz, to address the low gross...
View ArticlePolitical Economy of the Temple Treasure Trove
The Supreme Court's order to assess and document the artefacts of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram is a move towards democratisation of knowledge of the treasure. Equally...
View ArticleA Text Self-Consciously Realist and Never Utopian
Lineages of Political Society by Partha Chatterjee (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2011; pp xiv + 278, Rs 750.read more
View ArticleD D Kosambi: Genius of Renaissance Versatility
The Many Careers of D D Kosambi: Critical Essays edited by D N Jha (New Delhi: Leftword), 2011; pp 02, Rs 275.read more
View ArticleOn Mirroring the Social
The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory by Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2012; pp 248, Rs 625.read more
View ArticleClassical Indo-Roman Trade
An independent evaluation of the latest archaeological data unearthed at ancient port-sites of the Egyptian desert and Indian west coast confirms that the classical overseas trade, celebrated in...
View ArticleWho Will Listen?
Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century by Niranjan Ramakrishnan (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 2013; pp 138, price not indicated.read more
View ArticleWill History Repeat Itself at the ICHR?
The Indian Council of Historical Research has played a crucial role in the development of history over the past four decades. A member of the Council recounts the importance of the institution and...
View ArticleA Blindness about India
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...
View ArticleScrapping the UGC
This article argues that none of the reasons and objectives stated by way of justification for the replacement of the University Grants Commission by the National Higher Education Authority are...
View ArticleStatement of Historians
Concerned at the highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country, characterised by various forms of intolerance, we, as academic historians and as responsible citizens of a democracy that has...
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