https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1808 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:57:01 GMT 2026-04-25T23:57:01Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1849 Title: Book Review Abstract: A History of the Modern World – An Outline Ujjayan Bhattacharya Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1849 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1822 Title: Ideology, Power And Desire: Views From The Margins Authors: Paul, Abhijeet Abstract: This survey paper discusses the intellectual history of power and desire in imagining the social and the political. To do so, the paper argues, it is essential to look at ideology first. Ideology is discussed in structuralist-Marxist and postmarxist terms, explicitly and implicitly affecting the discourses of gender and power in Western and transnational places. While discussing the latter two—gender and power—attention is given to the construction of colonial/ postcolonial conditions in the production and circulation of desire and sexualities. A range of authors are discussed in this context: Gayatri Spivak, Laura Ann Stoler, Anne McClintock, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence Cohen, Gayatri Reddy, Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay and others. In conclusion, the importance of the survey lies in assessing the epistemological-theoretical, historical, and ethnographic premises of the postcolonial margins. The force-field of postcolonial margins, however, is far from unified, which makes a survey paper such as this rather challenging. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1822 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1821 Title: Bawi and Sal in Mizo Society Authors: Lalsangpuii, Ralte Abstract: Slavery has existed in one form or another throughout the world. Slavery is a word often associated with the past, evoking unimaginable injustices difficult to be forgotten by history. Despite the considerable advances in conceptualizing slavery in global histories, studies of the same phenomenon in Mizo society caused profound unease among the modern scholars. Like most tribal societies, the Mizos had their own variety of slaves and bonded labourers. The ethnographers and historians have tried to retrieve this history of slavery/ bondedness in the Mizo society. This article is a study of the forms of slavery or bonded labour that existed in Mizoram Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1821 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1820 Title: The Religious Roots of Indian Nationalism Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Authors: Razeq, Safoora A. Abstract: The paper discusses the significance of religion and religious idioms in the formulation of nationalist ideas in India among the Hindus and Muslims. Since the Western impact became much a cultural and epistemological onslaught as it was political. The nationalist leaders in the early twentieth century made a judicious use of language, history and traditional spiritual values. They criticised the elitist leadership for being too meek and docile in their approach for not associating with the need of the common man. Religion acquires a ‘functional character’ in the interpretation of Nationalism. Both Sri Aurobindo and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad emphasised on the political freedom as the necessary condition for achieving the ‘noble mission’-the spiritual freedom Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1820 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z