logo
  New Login   

History


Not Honed in An Ivory Tower
What the Empire Stood For
Veneration and Appropriation of the Feminine
'A Cultural Project'?
Documenting Struggle and Suffering
Compulsions and Faultlines
Social Dynamics and Societal Politics
Reconstructing A History of Ideas
In the Tradition of Travelogues
Viewing Nation-making As People-crafted
Question of Identity
Writing History With A Difference
Understanding Emotions
Questioning Stereotypes
Regional History Comes of Age
Debates On Theology
Travails of a Subcontinent Sundered
Social Change and Tradition
An Ongoing Conversation
Synthesizing Concepts of History Writing
A 'Melting Pot' of Fluidity and Dynamism
A Forgotten Comradeship
A Fertile Nursery for Christianity
A Fascinating Tale
Understanding Transitions
Making A Complex System Work
Architects of Partition and Pakistan’s Destiny
Narrative of a Life and a Movement
A Layered Telling
Of Bandits and the B.S.F.
Vibrant, Contentions Issues
In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree
Showcasing A Multilayered Engagement
Contextualizing Diverse Religious Traditions
Non-western Perspectives
Of John Brown and Mangal Pandey
Dilemmas in Imperial Policy Making
Documenting Partition
Reappraising an Intellectual Legacy
Varied Registers Of Remembrance
Predicaments of an Indian Moses
The Usable Past
Coming to Terms with the Orient
EXPLORING INDIA SERIES:BATTLES AND WARRIORS
Indian Philosophical Writing: Search for Alternative Scholarship
Enduring Interest in Partition
A Regime of Violence
EXPLORING INDIA SERIES: THE UNKNOWN INDIANS
Weaving Diverse Strands of Identity and Politics
Pepper and the Portuguese: Tribulations in the 17th Century
MAIN DHOONDH RAHA HOON
The Sikh Dilemma
Interrogating Cultural Dissonances
Emergency Trivia
ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA
De-industrialization in the Nineteenth Century: Myth or Reality
Of Diasporas and A Nation-State
Tracing the Lineage of Medieval Indian Historiography
Whose Islam Was It?
Interpreting Temples: Changing Methodologies
Does Dissent Endure?
Nehru: Dreamer or Warrior*
India's Philosopher-King
A Dark World of Incest And Cultural Attitudes
Politics as Public Service
Iconic Sites and Monumental Subjects
Story of the Indian State
Cultural Signifiers
Clio Knew Sanskrit
Revisiting Jawaharlal Nehru
Myth-makers : Old and New
Bengal at the Time of the Revolt
An Anchronistic Reformer?
Where Lies India That Is Bharat?
When A Liberal Dream Was Endangered
The underlying Story
History and Popular Perceptions
Debating a Dynamic Period
Re-reading a Text
Reassessing Ashoka
Empires of the Indus
Articulating Nebulous Questions
Ideology and Politics
Resonance of a Legacy
A Conspectus of Research Across Three Decades
Going Beyond Easy Answers: Essentialisms May Exist But Need Not Kill?
Burma's Afflictions Seen Through History
Bombay: Many Histories
History of Archaeology:An Alternative View
Sociology of a Bardic Genre
Of Colonial Projects and Language Science Theories
Mystical Call of Mecca And Haj
The Limits of Liberal Anti-Imperialism
Past Perfect
Approaching the Past from the Present
In Defence of the Liberal Vision
Empire Without a Centre?
Dialogue with History
Transnational Engagements
Remembering the Nationalist Movement
Controlling Commerce
Varied Hues of Ethics and Politics
What Ought to be History
Understanding Gandhi's Spiritual Quest
From Whence Gandhi’s Power
A View From Below
Age Cannot Wither*
Re-Engaging with Nehru
Affluence with Liberty: Nehru's Choice
Communal Nationalism and Tilak
History and its Polyphonies
Presenting Historical Imagination Via Cartography
A Rebel, An Icon, An Enigma
A Text of Intellectual Depth and Critical Thought
Nostalgia On a Platter
A Cosmopolitan Lode of Secular Literature
Arguing with Reason
Re-presenting An Icon
Refreshing Questions, Reassuring Answers
A Historical Sojourn Through India
In Retrospect
Boomtime in Cholamandalam
Illuminating an Attractive Persona
Reading Gandhi and Avowing the Impossible
A Unique Bond
New Trends in Tamil Reading
Negotiating Societal and Spiritual Terrain
Reconstructing the Past
Getting to Know Black Athena
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Rebellion and the Question of Identity
Epigraphic Records
A Text for All Seasons
In a Theo-centric Liberal Paradigm
Reflecting on Our Past
Anti-Imperialist Analyses
Reflections on Different Approaches
Exploring 'Kama'
Homage to Thorner
No Chanakya
Principles vs. Expediency: Nehruvian Dilemma
Killers for Pay
The Last Emperor
The Stupa in Context
An Overflowing Cauldron
March Toward Independence
Different Interpretations of Gandhi
Dissonance Between Officialese And Ground Realities
The Apostle and the Human Being
A Different Approach to History
Agony and Ecstasy
Analysing The Rationale For Social Power
Loss of Something That Never Was
The Mountbatten Myth
Sub-structural Factors in Evolving Foreign Policy
Nuancing Historical Analyses
Breaking Away from Two Centuries of Western Indology
Zamindars, Jotedars and Peasants in Bengal
An Overview of Harappan Civilization
American Hegemony and Alternatives
Cultural Mores and Complex Relationships
A Usual And Unusual Gandhi
A Grand Sweep
Debating A Text
Past, Perfect; Present, Tense
Indigo and the Planter Raj
What Religion Meant to Rabindranath
More than a Mere Prime Minister
Empirical Richness and Rigour
In the Shadow of the Mahatma
Textures of Legislative Formulations
'Culture' and National Identity
Aryans and Ancient Indian History
Reading Lives Through Paper Trails
Historical Research: New Dimensions
Furthering a Non-Communal Understanding of History
Textual Representations: A Chronological Overview
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Gandhi and Identity Formation
‘Literature of the Instant’
A Complex Intellectual Tradition
A Mixed Baggage…
Evolution of Bihar's Identity
Life of a Son and the Making of a Film
The Gandhian World
‘Inventing The Enemy’
Through the Prism of Entangled Histories
Collective Memories
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
--
Ethnographic Accounts
Two Stalwarts
In a Maze of Debates
An Intellectual Autobiography
Seasonal Trade Down the Millennia
History of Dissent
Redaction as Resistance
Glimpses of Leaders
Muslim Politics
'Only a Trust in Our Hands'
Enriching the Early Medieval
Resistance Centre Stage
Early Modern Examples of Export-Led Growth
Profiles of Nationalist Iconographies
Universal Within: Local, Regional, National
Situating Historical Processes
A Multidimensional Overview
Theology and Society
A Bygone Lifestyle
The Idea of India—And the Reality
Making of Modern India: Linking Strands of Development
Interactions, Expansion and Consolidation
Politics of Representation
De-Colonizing Postcolonial Theory
Survey of Rural Turbulence
Workers and Peasants: Growth and Stagnation
Dualist Indian Tradions
A Fraction of the Whole
Alternative Narratives
--
Tagore: The Public Figure and the Private Person
Contesting An Assumed Stability
A Study In Paradoxes And Subtleties
Indian Career of an Italian Orientalist
Philosophical Perspectives
Models of Written Documents
Defining Moments in a Titanic Career
A Walk Through Untraversed History
The “Cooking“ Time
The Book, The Reader and The Reading
Exhaustive and Systematic Study
Synthesizing a Period of Ferment
A Corpus of Historiography
Aid for Subsistence or Power?
In Search of Identity
Ethnic Origins
Cultural Baggage of Colonialism
Interdisciplinary Analyses
A Re-telling Again
Rise and Decline of Surat
Making Of A Global Brand Name
In An Antique Land
Sights, Scenes and Stage Sets
A Political Party at the Crossroads
Perspectives of a Participant
Debates on Indian History and Historiography
Changing Meanings
Engaging with Geography and Space
Intercultural Comparison
Dismantling 'Orientalist' Narratives
Unearthing the Past Gently
Humanizing Gandhi
Dissent and Socialism
Communal Politics and National Discourse
Nationalism: A Split Phenomenon?
Muslim Political Mobilization in Colonial Bengal
Narratives Of Decline
In The Medieval Indian Context
Constructing Usable Pasts
Complexities of Community and Communalism
Power of the Narrative
From the Grass-roots
Lack of Interconnections
A Place for Religion
Power, Legitimacy, Authority
A Historical Narrative
Complex Linkages
Contested Terrains Of History
The Fourth Round
An Intellectual Pilgrimage
An Unusual Case Study
Changing Face of History
Voice of Archival Absence
Tributes to an Iconoclast Scholar
The Making of a Historic 'Event'
Rituals, Narratives and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern India
Marxiological Notes on the Perforated Sheet of Marxism
The Idea of Namdev: Reconstructing Memory
Between Communist Giants
A Scholarly Bouquet
Kala-Pani or Primitive Paradise?
The World of Prannath
Of Two Civilizations and Many Histories
Multiple Trajectories Of Globalization
Legacy of Mao
A Wide-Spectrum Overview
Insurgency, Militancy and the State
Presenting A New Synthesis
Incrementalim vs Ideology: The Dilemma of Developing Nations
Interfaces
History with a Difference
An Eye-Witness Account
Recollections of Parthada —The Man and His Work
Theoretical Insights Grounded in Empirical Research
From The Grassroots
The Insurgent Spirit
Traders and British Raj
Feeding Mars
Secularism Revisited
A Comprehensive History
Less Trodden Terrains
Heartwrenching Narratives
Timeless Hunger
Beyond the Land
Sarvepalli Gopal: A Mixed Legacy
Politics Of Heritage Sites
Norms of Identity
Understanding Gandhi’s Convictions
Defending Justice
Studying An Enigma
Power and Domination
Portrait of a Moderate
Making Memory Meaningful—Politically!
State of Pakistan: Islamist or Secular?
Archaeological Knowledge: Creation and Dissemination
Intellectual Freedom in the Study of India
A Socio-Linguistic Study
Analysing Everyday Forms of the Past
Searching for a Balance Between the Past and the Present
A Study on Bondage
In Search of Aurobindo
A Grand Sweep of Historical Analysis
Event, Memory, Catastrophe
A Multilayered World
A Mix of the Old and the New
A Burning Issue or a Burnt Out Issue?
Colonial Responses to Public Health
A Biography of Citizenship in India
Dilli O Dilli
Pageant of India's Past
Misrepresenting Histories and Hinduizing Tribes
Arm-chair View of Revolution
Workers United
Probing Interconnections
Diaspora Down the Centuries
Of Changing Dynamics
Ayodhya and the Role of Archaeology
The Short and the Shorter
Of Cataclysmis Times
Tropes of Community IdentityFormations
East India Company to Independence
Dimensions of the Legal
History, Politics and Business Communities
Presenting the Narrator to History
A Different History
The Bengal Experience
Myth of the Progressive Right
Countering Imperialist Historiography
A Veteran Reminisces
Preaching to the Converted
Society in Feudal Era
Celebrating Scholarship
Restructuring Past Edifices
The Dissident
Lesser-Known Nation-Makers
Tradition, Memory and Devotion
Analysing Theoretical Constructs
A Compendium of Information
'Mindfulness'
Violence, Martyrdom and Partition
The Inscrutable East
Fluid Categories and Boundaries
Sarvodaya Simplified
Bengal Comes of Age
Silent Witness to History
Dava and Dua: Medicines and Markets
Production Relations and Social Classes in History
India: Various Pasts And A Schizophrenic Present
Interconnected Process of Exchange
Pan-Indian and Regional Perspectives
--
A Messianic Movement
Elections and Voting in India
Tribute to Hammarskjold
A Family Tale
A Document to be Taken Note of
An Early Civilization
An Evocation and a Lament
Profiling A State
Getting to Know Agyeya
Local/Regional/Global Resonances
Accounts Of A National Trauma
Zebunissa, Her Relatives and the Period
“Dis-covering” the Past: Archaeology in Colonial India
The Craftsman's Workshop
Governance and Knowledge
Has Academe Got it Wrong?
The Political Turn
History as 'Passion'
Essential Readings
History of Kerala Muslims
No-Man's Island: Hybrid Environments
Interface Between Science, Religion And Politics
A Sorry Commerce
Role of Ideas
Historiographic Debates Under the Lens
Forces That Made History
Not A Feminist Monolith
Glorifying Indian Technology
Linear Accounts
Geneologies of Discrimination
A Many-splendoured Personality
Delving into India’s Strategic Past
Science in India: New Vistas
Origins of the Present, Legacies of the Past
Vivekananda Compendiums
A Handy Index
A Multifaceted Survey
--
Rereader Gandhi
Exhibits of A Rediscovery
Another Greater India?
All The King's Horses ...
The Politics of Race
Rituals of Power
History Through Lives
Building Archival Riches in Print
Formulating the Central Problem of Identity
The 'Truth' and Archaeology
Initiating Post Partition Studies?
A Varied Collection
Famine and Ethnic Politics
Soldiers of the Raj
Prescription for Success
A Synoptic View of the Party System
Historiography and Historians
Filtered Memories
Nuanced Urban Processes
Travails of Governance
A Historian’s Experiments with Truth
Reading Topi Shukla in Gandhi’s Land
Paradigm of 'Service'
Interpreting Epigraphy
Memories and Reflections
Common Sense, Rationality and Social Progress
Engaging with Khajuraho
An Interesting Smorgasbord
Women and Work
Of Lies, Deceipt and Violence
Sculpting With Bricks
An Identity Crisis
Empire as a Global Entity
Taking the Sea Seriously
The Non-Rational City
--
Colonial Khaki
Illuminating An Era
Labour as the Focal Point
Lessons from History
--
Partition Revisited as a Colonial Exit Strategy
Revisiting Partition
More Than Just Money
Writing History
Print Culture of Empire
Plan Balkan in North Eastern India
How A Dispute Was Manufactured
Cosmopolis Of A Shared Worldview
Locations of History
Earthly Paradises
Myriad Ramifications of Self-Immolation
Questioning Tradition
Dalit Literature: Moving to Maturity
Bird’s Eye View of Wheeler
What Constitutes Crime?
Prometheus Unbound?
Nationalism in Indian Cities
Portraying An Insurrection
A Woman of Many Strands
Storing for the Future
A ‘Tragic’ Emperor Amidst Alien Rule
Mapping European Interpretations
Increasing Oppression and Shifting Response
Confluence of Disciplines
Contours of Changing Book Culture
Frames of Creative Expression
A Dissenting Perspective
Asymmetries of Colonial Encounters
Tracts from a Volatile Region
Constraints and Possibilities
Kings, Commoners and the State
The Place of Robb
Buddhism Deferred
--
A Royal Chronicle
Religion Through Language
Devotion of the Excluded
Three Centuries of Historiography Under the Lens
Mapping Print Areas
Understanding ’Syncretism’
The 'South' of India
The Debate Over 1857
Federal Equations
Ideas And Praxis: A Creative Dialogue
--
Hindu Philosophy
A Sikh Space in Pre-Colonial Punjab!
Nemesis or Genesis
Strategies of Contestations And Equivalence
Poverty of Radical Politics
Ambedkar’s Legacy and Contemporary Dalit Discourse
Whose Map/Whose Past?
A Travelogue
Tiger ! Tiger !
A Socio-Cultural Analysis
Pluralistic Theism
Tall Leaders of Independence
Narratives and Counter-Narratives
No Pointers
Linking Science to the Colonial Agenda
Amchi Mumbai
‘Defenders of The Establishment’ Under A Microscope
A Prisoner of Presuppositions
The Question of Identity Formation
Questioning Certitudes: Thoughts Across Cultures
--
Of Muslim Rajputs
Understanding Modes of Colonial Domination
Imagined Concepts
Standing Tall In The Face Of Odds
Telling Lives
A Unique Revolutionary
Recording Dalit History
1857 Revisited
Inventing India
Gandhis Years in South Africa
Adivasis in a Colonial World
Profiling India's Commercial Capital
Simplifying Matters
The Krishna Cult
Dynamics of Oceanic Regions
Re-siting the Syncretic Spirit of Medieval Indian Literature
A Colonial Project
State Centre Relations
Witnessing History
JP's Revolution
Divide and Quit
Retrieving A Vanishing Past
Witness to Freedom
26/11: Constructing A Timeline
Homogenizing Culture
Beyond a 'Sanitized' History
--
Economy and Society
Historicizing Cultural Antecedents
Going Beyond Narrative Histories
Understanding Social Praxis
Enquiry Into The Materiality Of Hurt
River Valleys, Hill States and Colonial Rule
A Celebration Of Empire
Debating Sovereignty
Living in Marxist Dream: A Disillusioned Long March
Fluid Geography / Fluid Memories
Recovering the Real Bhagat Singh
A Historical Biography
'A Contemporary Widening of Partition Studies'
Beyond Monolithic Frameworks
Mainstreaming Forest Dwellers
Of Seperations and Identities
Gandhi: The Last Years and After
Truth About Minorities
A Warrior of Freedom
Beyond Hagiography
Identity Formation and Conflict
A Wide-spectrum Analysis
A Structured Web
Talking Through The Past
--
Need for Dialogue
Limits of Hegemony
A Ringside View Of History
Memory, History And Modernity
A Timeless Classic
The Glory that was the Empire
A Slice of Lived History
Racy, Risky History
Emergence of Two Nations
Peasant Movements Revisited
Keynes Re-engaged
From Colonial To Contemporary Times
Ecosystems and Development
Encapsulating Definitive Epochs
Khadi and its Discontents
A Poetic Journey into Pallava Art
Conversion and Critical Language
Complementary/Contending Strands
Readymade Ramayana
On the Border
Love, Life and Spiritual Visions
Some French Perspectives
Muslim Culture in the Last Century
Sorties in Art, History, Politics and Culture
Chronicling a Publishing House
Painting the Big Picture
Settling A Controversy
Reading An ‘Enigma’
Militant Irony
History of Dissent and Conflict
Bengal's Commerce
Widening Horizons/Documenting Faith
What It Means To Be A Hindu
Politics of Identity Formation
In the Shadow of the Public Domain
The Colonial Project Defined
How History is Read
Insurgencies and Insurrections
Bridging a Gap Between Tradition and Modernity
Subtle Shifts In Memorializing the Past
Eloquence Down the Years
Engaging With Stones
Land, Legacy and Litigation
Twilight Zone of the ‘Forgotten’
Destigmatizing Chamars
Crafting Nationhood
Showcasing of a Marginalized Region
Good Public-Sector Scholarship
City Mores
Liberating Insights
Relating History and Communities
Contestations over Indian Nationalism
A History of Protest
Arenas and Acts of Telugu-ness
Sites for New Interventions
Invoking Marginality
Remaking the Hindu Identity
Transformative Events Analysed
Decline of an Empire
An Historic Expedition
A Gateway to Pondicherry
Strands of History
A Continuing Debate
‘On Official History’
Worldly Calculations and Extraordinary Visions
Song of a Whistling Thrush
Bourgeois Sociality in South Asia
Mostly Facts—Some Fiction
An Empirical Account
A Complex Phenomenon
Disappearing Habitats
The Sacred and the Secular as Universal Problems
Removing the Veil of Oblivion
Interpreting Form and Reality
Politics, Punjabiyat, Insaniyat
'Rewriting' History
Matter Of Ethics
Hybridity: Fluid Bridge of History
Architecture in the Evolution of a City
Of 'Better Angels of Our Nature'
How Not to Be a Nehruvian
War and the Sensory World
Bindings and Bondings
Monochrome Images
--
A Historian with a Holistic Vision
A “Superior Lady’s” View
The Slippery Path of Progress
Showcasing A Trend
The 'Other' History
From the 'Ante-natal' Scenario to the Present
Of Siva, Religious and Cultural Space
The Self and the World in its Myriad Forms
Redressing an Imbalance
City as a Sacrificial Site
‘Situating Music in its Context’
Landmark in Art
Holding the Mirror
Making History Come Alive
Story of British Rule in Kenya
Social Art at its Best
World Renouncers and Men of the World
Mapping the Terrain of Emotion
Nuanced Reading Of India’s Environmental History
Charting New Routes
Documenting the Role of an Institution
A Living Institution
A ‘Bird’s Eye View’ of India’s Natural History
Cross Border Tales
Of the Historical and the Hagiographic
Warriors in Grey
Missing the Medieval
Narrativizing History And Causality
Teaching Early Indian History
The Story is the Thing
Historical Representations Through a Lens
At Home in the World
Unravelling Marriage in the Indian Context
A ‘Useful’ Colonial Construct?
Re-Visiting Medieval Indian History
Multiplicity as Strength and Vulnerability
Cinderellas of Archaeological Explorations
Emduring Footprints
Breaking Psychological Barriers
The Public Face of History
Shifting, Contextual Discourse of Power
A Tale of Conflicts
Power At The Tip Of A Pen
Language Predicament, Decay and Death
A Synoptic History
Grim Reminder of Medusa's Head
Recipes Galore
The Blue Pencil
Creativity Amidst Loss
Appropriating Aœoka—Memory, History, Politics
Social History of Medicine
Small Towns, Grand Ideas
Reassessing a Modern Thinker
Mapping the Caste Debate
The Burmese Enigma
Discovering Harappan Cities
History of a Revolt
Looking Back at a Visual Archive
Jihad in Islamic Discourse
Enchanted Aesthetic Spaces
A Multifaceted Life
Warriors and Their Art
A Journey of Discovery
New Insights on Partition
Pathway to Knowledge
Anthologizing Islam in South Asia
Life of a Nationalist Muslim
Ideological Moorings Of A Community
A Legacy Lives On
Engaging with the Urban Predicament
A Murder Foretold
Journey of the Secret Ballot
Infamous In Indian History
Crossings And Journeys
A State With A Contested Past
Knowledge-Power Relationship in Colonial India
More Than A Pastime
A Region's Unique Canvas
The IFsof History
A Biography Revisited
Contentious Issues
Making History of their Choice
Evolving Trade Networks
Towards Understanding Larger Historical Trajectories
War Elephant As An Idea
Unanswered Questions
Writing Twentieth Century History –From Colony to Nation: A Conference Report*
Bangladesh History as Structure
A Framework For Strategic Creativity
A Glorious Symbol
For the Sake of Pragmatism
Of Arms and the Man
Imprints of Stone
Arresting Splendour
Integral Linkages
Global Concerns
Colonial Capitalism and the Natural World
Ethical and Political Conundrums of Gandhi’s Legacy
A Dangerously Flawed Thesis
The Never Ending Debate
Intimate Portrayal of Bombay City
New Pathways of Scrutiny
Scribal Traditions Catalogued
Making and Remaking the World
Migrants from the Frontier
Deconstructing Monolithic Islam and Homogeneous Muslim Community
Gazing the Linguistic Crystal Ball
Parables of a Time Gone By
A Visual Delight
A Juristic Contribution
The Persistence of Memory
Addressing the American Reader
Poetry and History
Trajectories of Political Change
Reliving Moments that Mattered
Narrativizing Partition: The Perils of Overkill
Lived and Living Agonies
An Enigmatic Work
Voices of Hope
Putting the Ocean into a Jug
«BACK




































Free Access Online 12 Back Issues
with 1 year's subscription
Archive (1976-2011)
under construction.