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Savitri Devi Mukherjee’s ‘A Warning to the Hindus` (1939) was published as a part of her Hindu nationalist project in India under the patronage of the Hindu Mission at Calcutta. This less highlighted and unexplored work could be used to understand an obscure variety of Hindu nationalism which proposed to create one Hindudom on the basis of an Aryan- Hindu connection in the past. The entire argument was placed on an enigma of ‘danger` and ‘threat` from the ‘other` religions and opened up ...

This paper revisits Tagore during the turbulent period of India’s struggle for freedom since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and how he demonstrated discursive strategies of decolonization while living under an offshore dominion. It is a brief attempt to underline the interface between Tagore’s obvious emergence as a prolific writer and his active participation in the nationalist politics of India since the late 1880s. By reinterpreting Tagore’s overtly political writings, public...

Hunting from age old times is prevalent in the Indian subcontinent. It is also considered as a manly sport which involved a team of men exercising their masculine powers upon the beasty of the jungle. Tiger hunt was something which was looked upon as super masculine activity. Before the institutionalization of hunting, it was a common practice as a form of entertainment. The colonizers however played an important role in institutionalization of hunting. The control of the forest by the R...

Like all social political phenomenon, nationalism is a concrete historical category. The integration of communities into nations was a direct outcome of a prolonged historical process and at a distinct stage of social, political and economic development, nations came into being. This excitement took place in the context of a world which had just seen the brief success of many ideological movements as Nazism, and Fascism and which was not confronting the spread of communism. The problems...

After the three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824-1885) the British annexation of Burma was completed. Simultaneously there began the process of modernization of Burma which required huge number of labours and agriculturists. The Indians were taken as labourers for the works of construction, clearing jungles and as port labourers. With the expansion of trade and government offices the Indian migrated as traders and white collared job holders. There were both push and pull factors involved in the ...

This paper tries to explore transformation of Calcutta’s urban space in a period of transition, i.e. from end phase of colonial rule to early years of decolonization. The main object of this paper is to understand the role of broader politico-economic events like world war, famine, communal riots and migration in determining urban planning and development. At the same time, we would review how concerns of health and hygiene affected planning and developmental works in an urban area. Simu...