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The latest UGC draft clings to colonial reasoning and ignores the diverse facets of our past

Khalid Zaka: A historical perspective on the farmers' movement in India Because of contemporary neoliberal policies in India, it's becoming increasingly important to examine precolonial agriculture and Indian agriculture during the British Raj by Khalid Zaka on March 16th, 2021 at 9:41 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4 (This article is significantly longer than what appears on most media websites.) Millions of Indian farmers have been protesting in India's many states since September 2020 against three laws passed by the Indian government. These laws are:  Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion ...

Considering that there is no universally agreed definition of democracy, let alone an ideal democracy, any discussion on an ideal vision of democracy may well be deemed as a futile exercise. But I contend that as Bangladesh is witnessing a reversal of democracy and, like elsewhere, anti-democratic forces are increasingly questioning the validity of democratic ideals, effectiveness of democratic institutions and suggesting an undemocratic system of governance as a new kind of democracy, it is imperative that we explore the meaning of democracy, both normatively and empirically, and lay out an ...

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl M...

Book Review: How Historians and Intellectuals Justified the British Empire's Conquest Priya Satia shows persuasively in her book 'Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire' that the Empire's economic exploitation was buttressed by policies that sought to reform and civilise the colonised. The British Union Jack. Photo: Reuters History31/Jan/2021 In the 19th century, history and history writing were handmaidens of British imperialism. Historians wrote to justify empire; politicians and public figures used history to rationalise acts of conquest. Dominating the intellectual lands...