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A Long Walk with Amartya Sen: An Unfinished Journey
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 115-131, March 2022. Amartya Sen, Home in the World, A Memoir. Allen Lane, 2021, 480 pp., ₹564, ISBN: 9781846144868 (Hardcover).
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Book review: Rehman Sobhan, Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 146-150, March 2022. Rehman Sobhan, Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh, SAGE Publications, 2021, 384pp., ₹407. ISBN 978-9353887391 (Paperback).
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Affordable Housing and the Urban Poor in India
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 58-75, March 2022. Affordable housing signifies the importance of one’s capacity to pay for housing, and it is essentially a market-based concept. The fundamental difficulty with India’s urban poor is that some h…
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Gender at the Crossroads
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 139-145, March 2022. Ghazala Jamil (Ed.) Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India, Vol–4; Series Editor, Manoranjan Mohanty). SAGE Publication, 2021,…
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Aparna Dutta Mahanta (1946–2022): The Pioneer of Women’s Studies in the Northeast
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 160-162, March 2022.
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Debates on Schooling the Mind in Colonial Bengal
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 93-108, March 2022. The making of the enlightenment in the age of imperial expansion through the analytical frame of knowledge and pedagogies were subjects of debate in nineteenth-century India, and continue to r…
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Revisiting the Pasmanda Political Discourse: Feasibility, Failure and the Way Forward
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 76-92, March 2022. This article attempts to revisit the Pasmanda political discourse (PPD) which is grounded on the premise that there exist a number of backward and dalit Muslims who remain under-represented and…
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Gendering Migration: Evaluating Empowerment of Single Migrant Women
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 24-39, March 2022. Migration is broadly interpreted to mean the movement of people for accessing better life prospects. However, when we deconstruct this phenomenon of ‘movement of people’ to the ‘movement of sin…
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Book review: Kumkum Roy, The Challenge of Democratization: Learning and Teaching History in the 21st Century
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 154-156, March 2022. Kumkum Roy, The Challenge of Democratization: Learning and Teaching History in the 21st Century, 2020; New Delhi, 230pp.,(E-book).
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The Hollow Men of Liyanage Amarakeerthi: The Nexus Between Nationalism and Capitalism in the Sri Lankan Media
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 132-138, March 2022. Liyanage Amarakeerthi, Kurulu Hadawatha [The Heart of a Bird], Fast Publishing Pvt Ltd., Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2013, pp. 366, SL ₹500, ISBN-978-9556772548 (Paperback)Liyanage Amarakeerthi, Rath…