Vol. 53
Numbers 7-8 (July–August 2025)

This issue leads with an overarching assessment by Jayati Ghosh of how the vision of economic development itself has changed over time and the implications that follow. While the post World War II development discourse started with an emphasis on…

In this paper I intend to discuss some of the central concerns that have emerged – at least for me – about development in recent times. I will try to cover three very broad questions: How has our vision of…

In a biographical interview titled Record of a Life that was undertaken by his Hungarian translator, István Eörsi Lukács speaks about the historical conditions under which The Destruction of Reason was written. He speaks about the manuscript that ‘was written…

Between the putative indeterminabilty of the first part of my main title – ‘Criss-Crossing Theory, History and Method’ – and the sustained flashiness of my subtitle – ‘New Measures of Reflexivity’ – there lurks a problem that I wish to…

The term ‘subalterno’ is drawn from Gramsci’s analysis of Italian history in Prison Notebooks (1971) (Currie 1995: 219–46). His notion of the ‘subalterno’ provided the initial intellectual inspiration for the Subaltern Studies project led by Ranajit Guha in 1982. Guha…

There has been a growing demand1 since the late twentieth century to enumerate caste, especially the backward castes, in the censuses conducted by the Union Government every ten years (a practice commonly referred to as a ‘caste census’). Enumeration of…

Teacher, comrade and lifelong revolutionary Badruddin Umar (20 December 1931–7 September 2025) is no more. We offer him our deepest respect and love. Alongside this, on behalf of the people of Bangladesh, we convey our gratitude – for he devoted…

H.A. Qureshi and Shreya Pathak, The Lost Hero of Banaras: Babu Jagat Singh, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2024, viii+320 pages, Rs 1195 Book Review by Ashok Aounshuman Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces,…