Abstract: "Tybur et al., (2016) suggested that the relationship between pathogens and politics reflects intragroup rather than intergroup motivations. This contrast was based on their report from a survey of 11,501 participants across 30... more
Abstract: "Tybur et al., (2016) suggested that the relationship between pathogens and politics reflects intragroup rather than intergroup motivations. This contrast was based on their report from a survey of 11,501 participants across 30... more
18 & 19 NOVEMBER 2024
How does narrativity shape and is shaped by different media (visual, verbal, plastic, digital, ludic) and different modes (fictional, poetic, autobiographical, anthropological)?
The workshop brings... more
Abstract: Red Rivers against Hard Concrete: Have historians trumped engineers on the large dam debate in India (1948-2000)?
As a mode for understanding and acting upon the world, is engineering different from the discipline of history? And... more
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The global distribution and chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups ap-pears correlated with the spread of language families. This Father Tongue correla¬tion is ubiqui¬tous globally, but the pattern is neither perfect... more
On the occasion of the rolling out of the new MA Culture, Society, Thought programme, with its very first batch admitted in July 2024, we are launching the MA-CST Annual Public Lecture Series. The first annual lecture will be delivered by Prof.... more
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Recent studies in behavioral ethics reveal that the conflict between the desire to maintain a positive moral self-image and the desire to benefit from cheating behavior creates psychological tension, known as ethical dissonance.... more
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A default assumption within moral philosophy is that for an entity (E) to be morally responsible for an action/outcome (x), it is necessary that E is a moral agent. Call this the ‘Agential’ view of moral responsibility. The... more
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The literature on caste in Indian economic thought is sparse. This paper attempts to locate the economics of caste in Indian economic thought by focusing on the works of Dr B R Ambedkar. We look at the writings of Ambedkar to... more
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How can we tell the history of the green revolution which is not a narrative of a mere Cold War era outreach for agrarian modernization among postcolonial nations or an isolated history of colonial and postcolonial development on... more
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Patent Act extended to colonial India in 1859 introduced to Indians the right to file a patent for an invention. The article locates India as a site for invention and innovation, not by looking at the legal evolution of the law or... more