Towards a Reassessment of Contending Theses Paresh Chattopadhyay This article reviews critically, from the point of view of Marx's fundamental materialist categories, four basic alternative...
Review of Political Economy
A Polemical Essay N K Chandra Was the Soviet experiment doomed from its inception, as the 'totalitarian' school of western scholars has maintained? Their main arguments are: the seizure of power in...
Ambivalence and Cosmopolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said Aijaz Ahmad Drained primarily in the classical mould of scholarship in comparative European literatures, in a milieu dominated by...
Rehman Sobhan There is an extensive literature and debate on the conceptual merits of the World Bank's diagnosis and solution of the economic crisis of the third world. The time is now right to...
Modern Austrian and Post-Keynesian Perspectives Kunal Sen Rajendra Vaidya The recent economic policy reforms initiated by the government with the intention of moving the Indian economy towards more...
the Third World Producing under Contract Michael Watts Contract production is deeply rooted in the soil of advanced capitalist agriculture but also represents an expanding and much touted mode of...
Shreeram Krishnaswami This essay attempts to explore the socio-economic impact of colonialism on western societies. The first part of the paper deals with the impact of colonialism on the transition...
Sheila Zurbrigg There has been a resurgence of interest in the epidemic history of colonial India, but such research has tended to reinforce the interpretation of epidemic crises as exceptional...
Parliamentary Papers on Widow Immolation, 1821-30 Vasudha Dalmia-L
Power and Production of Subjectivity in (Post) Colonial India Mukesh Srivastava The central argument of (his essay relates to the rise of a cultural interpretative community and vision of history as...
Eric Parker The Republican and Democratic parties will select their candidates through an extended process of state-level caucuses and elections that begins with the New Hampshire primary on...
Harkin is the liberal, and Kerrey is somewhere in between, Clinton, who was selected by Michael Dukakis to give the keynote address at the party's convention in 1988, is a key player in the...
in Bengal Vinay Krishin Gidwani An idea acquires political potency when it is displaced from a category to a norm; in other words, when, in addition to describing the object it claims to be...
Colonial South-India V R Muraleedharan In the history of health care in colonial India, the licentiates of western medicine played an important role, particularly during the last 25 years of their...
A Sequel to Political Ironies in World Economy Andre Gunder Frank This essay shows how in the short run today world economic conditions limit the discretion of, and produce unintended consequences...
