To the tell-me-a-story request from her grandchild, grandmother Rama Rau responded with tales of her own childhood and little Asha listened with wonder—’… from her expression I might have been describing a totally foreign land in a remote period of history’. From the girl’s insistence that her…
This is a source-book for those who wish to obtain specialized information regarding the material culture of Akbar’s times. It is not a book that one expects to complete at one reading, but is more in the nature of a reference book, aiding such of us as would wish to verify whether, for example, a kettle-drum of a particular type was known in Akbar’s days or if flutes of a specific variety were then in vogue…
Till the late sixties students of Indian elections and party system used to complain of the dearth of relevant and reliable data needed for undertaking systematic empirical studies in these two areas. The position has changed since then substantially, thanks largely to the efforts of some scholars to develop…
With the increasing realization of the role of Multinational corporation as the coupling mechanism in the structural linkage between the ‘centre’ of the Imperialist system with its ‘periphery’ the literature on the working of Multinationals in the Developing world continues to grow. By now, in purely quantitative terms…
In 1921 when Professor Vakil headed the Bombay School of Economics and Sociology most of the present generation of Indian economists (even senior ones) were unborn. Like John Matthai he was one of the earliest Indian products of the London School of Economics in its formative years…
Most seminars based on a broad theme shed some light and create some obscurity. This one is no exception. Planned as an open-ended discussion, it studies movements of protest and reform in India over the centuries, directed against things as disparate as ‘slavery, untouchability and colonialism’ (in the words of a participant)…