Critical Quest

During the movement for national independence, a similar conflict arose over protective measures for oppressed and vulnerable castes in the Hindu s...

In his highly celebrated but also provoking book Orientalism2, Edward Said (1935– 2003) embarks on describing a long European tradition “of coming ...

In this book, Lakshmi Narasu seeks to further the cause of rationalism, freedom, and emancipation. With sparkling wit, and regular flashes of brill...

The development of "indigenous peoples" as a significant concept in international practice has not been accompanied by any general agreement as to ...

In this view, humans are fallen creatures in the sense that our being is so constituted that it is natural for us to live in a corrupt and uninform...

"The campaign led by Phule and reformers for the implementation of compulsory education was opposed by Tilak.“You take away a farmer’s boy from the...

Violence Against Women | Violence Against Women

Within the country, the wide inviting alluvial plains, opening on to the main gateways to Western Asia, abut on an older land mass of Peninsular In...

Bharat Patankar is a social actvist with th farmers’movement in Maharashtra; he is also a regular contributor to Marathi journals and newspapers. G...

Romila Thapar is internationally known historian of Ancient India. She taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her several books include Ashoka and ...

Liah GreenfieldNationalism & ModernityTradition weighs heavily on the study of modern society. Our views of it are still to a large extent defi...

"Postmodernism grew out of French structuralism by taking serously the linguistic turn in philosophy……The stuff of the world only becomes an object...

"In short, the second half of the 19th century is crucial to the modern history of Kerala in this: it was during this period that the cultural foun...

Social Exclusion (Two Essays)“The concept of social exclusion can help to ground the understanding of deprivation firmly in traditions of social sc...

Brahmanism Buddhism & Hinduism | Brahmanism Buddhism Hinduism

“The Politics of Indian Secularism”“The object of this paper is to unravel the entangled and often contradictory strands of Indian secularism. To t...

The Enfranchisement of Women“That the promoters of this new agitation take their stand on principles, and do not fear to declare these in their wid...

Pandita Ramabai Once MoreEight years after Rewriting History first came out Ramabai's life and times still enthuse me: I continue to engage with he...

Reminiscences of UntouchabilityThis incident has a very important place in my life….. This scene of a dozen Parsis armed with sticks lined before m...

The Noreast India: A ProfileThis monograph aims to provide a short profile of the region, by elucidating its complex issues such as persistent soci...

If the fact I have described above is true, then you will have to agree with the conclusion of it. The conclusion is, if you depend only upon your ...

Periyar E V Ramasami: A ProfileWith the Besantian growth of hair on his head, short, soft and of shining silvery hue, with his snow-white patriarch...