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Contextualizing Gandhi in Twenty-First Century World

Contextualizing Gandhi in Twenty-First Century World © Anup Mukherjee (June, 2003) This essay was part of World History Association (WHA) Conference at Atlanta (June 2003). Detailed commentary by Prof....

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Book Review: American Empire

Book: American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy. Author: Andrew J. Bacevich. Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Other Details: ix + 302 pp. Index. $29.95...

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Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Economics

Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Economics © Anup Mukherjee (March, 2003) Neoliberalism is revival and extension of classical liberalism, neo-classical economics and policies of lassez-faire in its more...

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Book Review: The Arabian Seas

Book: The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. Author: R. J. Barendse. Publisher: Asia and the Pacific Series. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Other Details: xvi + 588 pp....

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Hinduism in Modern Times

Hinduism in Modern Times © Anup Mukherjee (Nov 2003) Hinduism in modern times is reflection of continuity and of progressive changes that occurred in its various traditions and institutions during the...

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Bengali Language: A Brief Introduction

Bengali Language: A Brief Introduction © Anup Mukherjee (Nov 2003) Bengali language is the mother tongue of the people of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Both West Bengal and Bangladesh share a similar...

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Ideas, Not Power, Rule The World

Ideas, Not Power, Rule The World © Anup Mukherjee (May, 1990) John Maynard Keynes rightly said, “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong,...

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Only Better People, Not Better Laws, Can Transform Society

Only Better People, Not Better Laws, Can Transform Society © Anup Mukherjee (Feb, 1991) History bears witness to the moments of trials and turmoils when civilizations underwent an upheaval because of...

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Critiquing Imperialism

Critiquing Imperialism © Anup Mukherjee [The Essay titled Empire: An Artful Statecraft was written in response to Niall Ferguson's article in the April 2003 Issue of Historically Speaking. Only an...

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Women in World History

Women in World History © Anup Mukherjee [This Article is a partly revised version of my post in the H-World Discussion Network] This refers to the Teaching Unit D1 of the AP World History course...

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Research Requirements

Why advanced countries are more into research of social sciences than the developing world? And particularly, one can find the research of various disciplines of social sciences relating to developing...

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Jammu and Kashmir: The Underlying Trends

Jammu and Kashmir: The Underlying Trends © Anup Mukherjee, Jan 2003 The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) recently underwent the Assembly elections. This article will explore the J&K...

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Truth and Reality

Truth is eternal and imperishable. It is formless, without description, and exists for its own sake. Truth is interpreted in form of reality, while reality itself is a mere description. Reality is...

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Religion, Food and Bengal

I find it strange of how people react to food vis-a-vis their religion. Most of this strange thing is related to methods and reasons for taking/not-taking non-veg food – though not restricted to that...

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Understanding India through Films

Understanding India through Films ©    Anup Mukherjee (Oct 2004) Films of India come in various shades. There are the masala films of Bollywood, which is the popular mainstream cinema. There are the...

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Akbar : The Mughal Emperor

Akbar (1542-1605) © Anup Mukherjee [A version of this essay written by the author was published in the Encyclopedia of Leadership (Sage, 2004)] Akbar was the grandson of Babur who founded the Mughal...

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Dreams

“Dreams are like highways, gets lost with distance…”, so went the song. Are dreams meant to be lost? yes, no, maybe…, perhaps, dreams are not landmarks to be reached, but something to be pursued....

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Ancient Southeast Asia

Ancient Southeast Asia © Anup Mukherjee A version of this essay was published in the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge) The present countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia,...

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Nation and Nationalism (1)

Nation and Nationalism (South Asian Perspective) © Anup Mukherjee Part 1 (this page) Part 2 The concept of ‘Nation’ for South Asia is an interesting concept to explore. In the Indian Subcontinent, the...

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Nation and Nationalism (2)

Nation and Nationalism (South Asian Perspective) © Anup Mukherjee Part 1 Part 2 (this page) Indian History from sixth century BC (Post Vedic period) to early modern period should be seen as a...

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