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Pragati The Indian National Interest Review No 27 | Jun 2009 Published by The Indian National Interest-an independent community of individuals committed to increasing...
A Muslim traveller’s tales
Jayakrishnan Nair THE FIRST thing that Prof Matthew Herbst asks students to do in the introductory lecture of the series New Ideas/Clash of Cultures at University...
The tribal militias of the Frontier
Joshua Foust ONE of the ideas recently circulating around US.policy circles is utilising a tribal militia of some sort to address otherwise intractable security...
The Eastern Sea and Golden Lands
The Purvasamudhram[1] was finally quiet after two days of incessantly tossing the boat about. Sokkan the old man still sat in his usual spot near the Kudirai Chettis[2]....
Hubs of the medieval trade
Ullattil Manmadhan A NUMBER of modern economists relate globalisation as a phenomenon of the twentieth century. In reality, it has been with us for a long time....
The Ghaggar and the Sarasvati
Suvrat Kher IN MAPS of North-west India, the River Ghaggar appears as a small drainage system, flanked by the giant Sutlej to the north and the Yamuna to the south-east....
The peopling of India
Michel Danino[1] From a structuralist perspective, there is probably no queerer theory than that of an invasion of India by Aryans or Indo-Aryans in the second...
Getting objective about it
Jayakrishnan Nair IN JANUARY 2009, PBS, a US television network, ran a documentary titled The Story of India. Hosted by Michael Wood, this six-part series narrated...
Towards a shared understanding
Nitin Pai IN HIS introduction to The Shield of Achilles, Philip Bobbitt argues that history “is the distinctive element in the ceaseless, restless dynamic by means...
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