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Historical Materialism is “Historicity without History” but it is not, therefore, Genealogy


Historical materialism is historicity without history. And yet it is by no means genealogy. Of course, isnofar as […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 genealogy, Historical materialism

Why a Marx-Inspired Materialist Historiography cannot Afford to be Historicist and yet it often is


A historically determinist (or hitoricist) historiography takes root when the line shifts from construing the discursive inscription of […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Historical materialism, historiography, philosophy of history, Politics

Panchatantra and the Master-Servant Relationship


In the very initial portions of an ancient Indian text Panchatantra, which teaches pragmatism of human relationships in an […]

Pratyush Chandra August 10, 2015 Ancient wisdom, India

“The Hasty Genius of Aurangzeb”

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Iqbal was incomparable as a political thinker, and I think a small paragraph on Aurangzeb in his Stray […]

Pratyush Chandra July 30, 2015 Allama Iqbal, Hindu Fundamentalism, Politics

Revolution as Return (I)


What is return anyway? Don’t we hit return on our keyboard to start a new paragraph? Benjamin did […]

Pratyush Chandra August 14, 2014 Marxism

Historical stereotypes and disjunctures


[L]ate antiquity throws up a social formation combining aristocratic dominance with free labour on a model that conforms […]

Pratyush Chandra April 20, 2010 Economy, Marxism

Sumit Sarkar on Ramachandra Guha’s “India After Gandhi”


Sumit Sarkar wrote a review of Guha’s India after Gandhi for New Left Review (56, March-April 2009), which […]

Pratyush Chandra March 31, 2009 India

Muhammad Iqbal – his contradictions and greatness


Marxist historian V.G. Kiernan’s introduction to his translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s poems echoes Lenin’s classic essay in defence […]

Pratyush Chandra September 13, 2008 Allama Iqbal, India, Theory
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