Fall 2025

I r was said that 10 days shook the world in 1917 and two days shook the world in 1968. In these two days, the people of Czechoslovakia have shown that, given the unity, they are able to assert their …

1) The Heritage of Traditional Society India has been a traditional society for centuries. Writing of the country as it was after the death of Akbar the Great, in 1605 A.D., W. H. Moreland, the distinguished historian of India, observes …

Dear Plastrik: Thank you for your cable of 19th inst. I find it difficult to understand what the dismay is about. Goa, Diu and Daman were three Portuguese possessions in India. After the British and the French left from India, …

In the new states [in Asia, Africa and the Middle East]. one after another, the very groundwork we are discussing [representative government and public liberties] is in danger of being destroyed. There is another difficulty. Though all of us seem …

    The publication in our last issue of “Can Asia Industrialize Democratically?”, reprinted with some small statistical deletions from Asoka Mehta’s pamphlet, SOCIALISM AND PEASANTRY, stirred broad enthusiasm and interest, notably among students of Asia. Below we present another …

    In January 1953, Asoka Mehta, one of the leaders of the Indian Praja Socialist Party, published a pamphlet—really a little book—entitled Socialism and Peasantry. In this study Mehta tried to find an answer to the most difficult and …