Indian Anthropology and Sociology
There is need of a rigorous and comprehensive history of Indian sociology-anthropology, constituted as a full-fledged research area, to study the material, ideological and institutional context in...
View ArticleHistory and Memory
History and Memory Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Jungle Mahals 1890-1950 by Ranabir Samaddar; Orient Longman, 1998; pp viii+295, Rs 250.read more
View ArticleTeaching to Hate
The RSS/BJP has attempted to effect a radical departure in the existing educational ethos through the use of both state power and the instruments of 'civil society'. This article looks at schooling as...
View ArticleDemocracy versus Economic Transformation?
Chatterjee sets up a number of structural oppositions but a more insightful and productive understanding of ongoing change would not only dissolve some of these distinctions but also invert some of the...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Chhattisgarh
Your editorial “Stifling of Democracy in Chhattisgarh” (13 June 2009) fails to capture the current situation there adequately. To say that “(the) PUCL and a few independent journalists have been the...
View Article'Victims of the Home Ministry'?
The advertisement of the Union Home Ministry, captioned “Look at These Innocent People – Victims of Naxal Violence”, that was carried in The Indian Express, The Hindu, and The Times of India on 20...
View ArticlePolice States and Academic Freedom
The government should not impinge on academic freedom under the spurious plea of protecting "national interest". This is what is happening with increasing frequency in the recent past and needs to be...
View ArticleCondemnation of Maoist Violence
As co-petitioners in a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court (WP 250/2007) urging the end of civil strife in Chhattisgarh, we write to express our shock and horror at the detonation of a...
View ArticleInterning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy
Based on the memories of elderly Naga and Mizo villagers in north-east India who underwent grouping in the 1950s and 1960s, this article shows how the concept of "success" and "failure" used by studies...
View ArticleSupreme Court on Salwa Judum
We warmly welcome the order by justices Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar of the Supreme Court, passed on 5 July 2011, directing the state of Chhattisgarh to stop using special police officers (SPOs) in...
View ArticleMemories of a Good Man: M A Iqbal (1945-2012)
M A Iqbal left a comfortable government job in Nagpur to settle in Bastar becoming in the course of time friend and guide to the local people and maintaining an open house for visiting anthropologists,...
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Maoist Intimidation
LETTERS Issn 0012-9976 Ever since the first issue in 1966, EPW has been India’s premier journal for comment on current affairs and research in the social sciences. It succeeded Economic Weekly...
View ArticleKilling of Adivasis in Chhattisgarh
We are deeply saddened at the indiscriminate killing of 18 adivasis in Kottaguda Panchayat of Bijapur district as part of the security force’s combing operations. Even if they were attending a Maoist...
View ArticleThe Chilling Effect of Restraints
This response to Indira Jaising and Ritu Menon's "Ethics and Theatrics" (EPW, 28 March 2015) says blaming Leslee Udwin, maker of the controversial India's Daughter and her promoters for not addressing...
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