The voyage of the Komagata Maru has its roots in the present as well as in the past. It had its links with the Ghadr party, the most powerful terrorist organization outside India engaged in the anti-imperialist struggle. But its relevance is no less to the immediate question of the Indian immigrants everywhere and their prospects and problems.
Dr Baker deserves credit for remedying the neglect of the Central Provinces and Berar. It should be appreciated that it is not an easy task to write a monograph on political changes in a province where information about the social and economic history of the region is still rudimentary.
Thomas Metcalf’s scholarly work describes the process by which the taluqdars of Oudh were transformed from rulers of men into modern rentier landlords. He has a small chapter on the origin of the Rajput clans—how they were superimposed on the local cultivating community through conquest and inter-clan rivalry.
Professor Hugh Tinker has written a fine, and also a very timely biography. Andrews died in April 1940 in Calcutta. Nine years later, Allen and Unwin published his first and still the most definitive biography written by two devoted friends and admirers, Banarsidas Chaturvedi and Marjorie Sykes.
The Second World War is a great divide in the history…
One of the indicators given importance in assessing the status of women in a nation is the presence of women in the political arena. Percentages are given against total membership in representative councils or politburos or political parties and the higher the percentage the more the marks given to the country for having moved women up the ladder.
These two books part of a series brought out by the Publications Division in honour of the International Year of the Child. The first one is the story of the adventures of Pushpak, an Indian craft, which goes into space to make contact with Trivikrama (so christened by Indian scientists), sent by ‘super-intelligent beings…
Stories from the Panchatantra seem to be dominating recent publications for children. They are aimed at different age groups. There are four books in the Red and Colour series by Thomson Press, The Monkey and the Crocodile for the very young by Vikas and The Foolish Princes and the Panchatantra, published by Orient Longman…
In their own small way, publishers of children’s books have contributed to the International Year of the Child by publishing various kinds of books for children. Not to be outdone, and creditably, the Publications Division, a public sector organization, has made its own contribution in the form of these six books in Hindi…
Since the child is the adult of tomorrow, we have to make necessary investments in building up this human capital. If steel mills, dams, factories, roads, bridges, nuclear and electronic devices are necessary prerequisites for progress and development, then the human material which builds…
Surat was perhaps ~he most active and prosperous port in seventeenth century India…
Village studies as they have been traditionally understood…
The introductory chapter of this book starts with a comparison—no other intelligence organization has been subjected to such tumultous criticism as RAW in such a short span of its existence.
Reading Islands in the Stream in translation almost thirty years after it was originally published in Hindi, it is difficult to visualize how it could have stirred up such controversy or earned so much disapproval.
Newly-married women being tortured to death for the sake of dowry has become such a common event these days that it has almost ceased to shock. And here, in the routine appearance of small in.
Nobody may dispute that Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly called JP, has been an important factor in Indian polity for about half a century. Starting as a Marxist (while a student in the United States of America!), he became a votary of non-violence under Gandhi’s influence and took part in the various satyagraha movements launched by the Mahatma for the country’s freedom.
Mao Zedong was the most dominant and towering actor in the long drama of the Chinese Revolution. His ability to interface the universals of Marxism-Leninism with the particularities of China created a profound organic relationship between the man and the event which he himself acknowledged.
A central vision illumines this book: Pakistan intends to assemble a nuclear arsenal, but does not have present capability to do so. Eventually it will. India should, therefore, devise a policy to keep its competition with Pakistan below the nuclear threshold.
While research on the Indian economy, both at the present time, as also in the colonial period, has tended to concentrate on the agrarian sector, relatively little work has been done on the relationship between the rural and urban worlds. The two volumes now under review offer a welcome change from this one-sided focus.