Vol. 54
Numbers 1-2 (January–February 2026)

Mujibur Rehman, Shikwa-e-Hind: The Political Future of Indian Muslims, Simon and Schuster India, 2024, 356 pages, Rs 999. I must confess that perhaps I am not the person best suited to evaluate this book. I am not a social scientist…

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.’ In the deeply contentious and sometimes violent realm of social movements, traditional academic scholarship has gravitated towards the study of ‘sticks and stones’ over the comparatively meek…

A manner in which the study of ‘Delhi’ becomes interesting is not the continuity but the uneven presence of written accounts for its study. For the period before the thirteenth century, only one written text survives: Pasanahacariu, composed in 1132…

Diversified Business Groups (DBGs) are dominant players in the private sector of a number of Global North and Global South countries. Their historical role in Global North countries, including that of late- industrialisers, took several trajectories: while some metamorphosed into…

It is worth stressing that the distinctness of the dominant constitutional interpretation of affirmative action in the Indian case is that it does not interpret the goal of affirmative action as diversity (which is the norm in the global North)…

With the launch of India’s much delayed Census exercise, the issue of caste representation across Indian society is likely to receive heightened attention. In the lead article in this issue, Anagha Ingole, in an article titled ‘Caste, Merit and Development:…