Arun K Patnaik This paper attempts an inquiry into some works recently published, though separately, by a group of Marxist intellectuals working on different themes in India. It argues that there is...
Review of Political Economy
Society in Late Colonial India Michelguglielmo Torri This paper reviews the Cambridge school critique of the concept of "westernised middle class" that was extensively employed in studying the...
A Case Study Poromesh Acharya The relation between educational development and communal politics in Bengal during the 30s and 40s of this century is a fascinating subject which has not received the...
International Division of Labour Some Theoretical Comments Prabhat Patnaik This paper examines the proposition that, apart from minor modifications such as those arising from the infant industry...
Riot of 1893 in Bombay City Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay The participation of social, religious or occupational groups in communal riots raises the problem of the concerned group's integration into the...
Responses to Illiteracy among the Adivasis in Thane District Denzil Saldanha The non-party political groups in Thane district
Ranjit Sau The Marxian law of falling tendency of the rate of profit has taken hold of several developed capitalist economies of the world, with the rising strength of labour that squeezes...
An Aspect of MGR Phenomenon M S S Pandian This essay is about how dominant ideologies succeed in the terrain of struggle and produce consent among the subaltern classes. This process is illustrated...
Krishna Kumar The customary statement that colonial education was 'aimed' at producing clerks is both theoretically feeble and historically untenable. We need a more adequate model capable of...
Distributive Justice Pulin B Nayak In this paper the theory of entitlement proposed by Robert Nozick in his Anarchy, State, and Utopia is critically examined. It is argued that contrary to Nozick's...
Social Science Amitabha Das Gupta The present paper is a metatheoretical or second order study on social change. It attempts to explicate the presuppositions, or foundations of social change.
Revolution Rustam Singh This attempt at determining and discussing the status of violence in Marx's and Engels' theory of revolution seeks answers to the following questions:
Weaving in the Mid-1930s Tirthankar Roy Descriptions of the handloom industry in the thirties contain the suggestion that rather than a passive decay, competition with machine-made cloth induced...
Given the circumstances and the manner in which the Aquino government was put into power in Philippines, what can be expected of the new regime?
The State A id to Industries Act passed in 1923 seemed to epitomise the spirit of the Indian Industrial Commission that active promotion of industry was a legitimate function of the government. But...
