Raziuddin Aquil
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Paradise lost and found: Rediscovering early modern Bengal (opens the original)
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Jadavpur University, Kolkata, has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Renowned for decades as a premier state unitary institution, Jadavpur has long maintained an outstanding record in research and pedagogy. Home to some world-class departments, it commands immense respect across academic fraternities. Its bright student body has always been fearlessly vocal against violations on the part of ruling dispensations, whether left, right, or centre. Equally, large sections of its dis
Remembering Sumit Sarkar, a historian who questioned orthodoxy (opens the original)
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Professor Sumit Sarkar devoted his life to working with just one exclusive agenda – scholarly excellence. In doing so, Professor Sarkar questioned received wisdom, pushed disciplinary boundaries, and set high standards of critical historical thinking. He taught generations of students for over three decades, between 1974 and 2004, in what was once a highly reputed institution – the History Department of Delhi University. The Department boasted a number of eminent historians as members of its fac
The bureaucrats and intellectuals who shaped the Mughal Empire (opens the original)
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Some collaborative research and publication projects are truly amazing and long-lasting. The recent book by Muzaffar Alam (University of Chicago) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles), Mirrors of Empire, once again illustrates that it is possible for two scholars to work together fruitfully for thirty years or more. In general, such collaborations appear to face difficulties, survive for some time, show signs of compromise or a domination/subordination binary, and end w
Thinking with Partha Chatterjee (opens the original)
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Professor Partha Chatterjee (born 1947) is one of the finest social scientists, straddling the disciplinary boundaries of political science, history and anthropology with equal expertise. Professor Chatterjee was associated with the prestigious Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), for several decades, both as a faculty member and as its distinguished Director from 1997 to 2007. He was also Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Columbia University in New York, b
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