In the reckoning of noted anthropologists, Indian anthropology is the product of a colonial tradition. As early as 1971 the eminent Indian anthropologist, Surajit Sinha, who was Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, had written in the Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society that despite considerable expansion of research publications and professional ability in the spheres of …
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February 24, 2018In 1949, a few months after the new People’s Republic of China was proclaimed, Mao moved to ‘liberate’ large areas in the periphery of the Middle Kingdom. While the remnants of the Nationalist forces were slowly and systematically annihilated in the Mainland, Mao annexed Xinjiang using two tactics ~ a large number of troops were …
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January 3, 2018Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his reported remarks that BJP needs to bring dalits into its fold as nationalists were already with the party, wondering whether he did not consider dalits and backwards as nationalists. "So now ‘Dalits’ and ‘Backwards’ are not Nationalists Modiji?," the Congress Vice …
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