History and Sociology of South Asia
Chaitra Redkar, Gandhian Engagement with Capital: Perspectives of J. C. Kumarappa, SAGE Publications, 2019, 217 pp., ₹750.
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 116-118, July 2022.
History and Sociology of South Asia
Colonial Gaze as Reflected in the Narratives of Memsahibs
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 93-115, July 2022. The article seeks to explore the dimensions of ‘otherness’ in the attitudes of the Memsahibs, that is, how these women who accompanied British men to India perceived the ‘…
History and Sociology of South Asia
Suvobrata Sarkar, Let There be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 308 pp., ₹850 (Hardback). ISBN 9781108835985.
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 118-121, July 2022.
History and Sociology of South Asia
Cultural Dimensions of India–Thailand Relations: A Historical Perspective
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 77-92, July 2022. In today’s world of ‘Asianisation’ whereby the countries of Asia are reinventing their historical linkages and asserting their combined power on the world stage, an underst…
History and Sociology of South Asia
Gods in Patnakalam: Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Art
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 67-76, July 2022. The appearance of Hindu gods was an essential feature of various indigenous Indian art tradition. The rise of hybrid Indo-Western art schools, notably Patnakalam heralded a…
History and Sociology of South Asia
Willem Schendel, Reading the Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 56-59, January 2022.
History and Sociology of South Asia
Institutions for Women’s Education in Delhi (1900–1920): Philanthropists, Missionaries and the Government
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 27-36, January 2022. Delhi has been the seat of power for long. The British made their centre of power in Calcutta for sometimes for strategic reasons perhaps but soon they realised the impo…
History and Sociology of South Asia
Ethnicity and Political Action in North-East India: Agency, Mobilisation and Community Relationship
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 7-26, January 2022. The ethnic political actions of multiple agencies like youth, students and women evoke mixed responses in the politics of the North-East India. While some actions like fi…
History and Sociology of South Asia
Rethinking Cholera in Jagannath Puri in the Nineteenth Century
History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 37-55, January 2022. This article examines the social history of cholera in Jagannath Puri throughout the nineteenth century, focusing on the various factors that affected the colonial healt…