...Projit Bihari Mukharji Mukharji's article is a set of reflections on how Dipesh Chakrabarty's The Calling of Histor y might speak to historians of science. Mukharji describes how Chakrabarty's key concerns resonate closely with recent concerns of historians of science, before suggesting ways...

...Allison Busch Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi/Riti Tradition Kesavdas has described the various gestures of Radha...

...Mayssoun Sukarieh Abstract Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in addressing the problematic politics and ethics of global North/global South relations within social science research projects. This essay outlines the ethical concerns arising from the funded research...

... retold the epic Ramayana in ornate Brajbhasha, and he was the first court poet who theorized the literary science elaborately in a north Indian vernacular. Keshavdas invented, in Busch's words, an “elevated form of vernacular royal expression” by transplanting the Sanskrit epic style and political...

...Meir Hatina Abstract This article sheds light on a neglected episode in the scholarship on Egypt's intellectual life in the interwar period, as well as on the Arab renaissance (Nahda) and its intensive preoccupation with the triangle of religion, science, and secularism. The discussion focuses...

...Vasant Kaiwar Sourh Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Science, Capitalism, and Islam Vasant Kaiwar Muslim society, bullied by the military might of science has “no epirtemologicalstanding CIS s&nce.”S the West, pushed into retrograde positions by “Islamic science...

...Meera Nanda Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). Is Modern Science a Western, Patriarchal Myth? A Critique of the Populist Orthodoxy Meera Nanda coupled with their staunch cultural...

... History .” Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences 11 ( November 2015 ): 309 – 36 . 6. See Davis, “Historian and Literary Uses” ; and Scott, “Storytelling.” 5. Drawing on the historical role of the University of Wisconsin's Law School in fostering CLS, its biannual Hurst Summer...

...Sanil V. As a response to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror, Sanil’s essay explores the relation between ethics and the social sciences. The essay engages the work of Kant, Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault, among others, to make its argument. The Cracked...

...Ana Vinea Abstract This article examines the notion of evidence ( dalil ) as it circulates in a revivalist religious therapy in contemporary Egypt to address current transformations of Islamic epistemologies, especially in relation to modern science. It focuses on Quranic healing, a Salafi-oriented...

... of silence in the social sciences today. Finally, it proposes an alternative view on decolonizing the social sciences and historiography and on decentering future ethical research. This article presents a history of fascist genocide in Libya and Italy based on the agency and a narrative of the Libyans who...

...Sudipta Kaviraj Social science theory, the concepts and argumentative architecture through which scholars make sense of the vast processes of modernity—industrialization, étatisation, secularity, individuation—generated the first wave of theoretical concepts in the crucible of European history...

...Asef Bayat Bayat’s essay examines the divide between area studies and the social science disciplines. A truly productive engagement with and critical reflection on the social sciences, Bayat argues, is possible only by intimate area knowledge, wide perspectives, a comparative lens, and a search...

...Mamadou Diouf Since independence, African scholars from different traditions (African, Islamic and Western), intellectuals, and politicians have been actively engaging with humanities and social sciences originating from the West and received through the conduit of colonial rule and imperial...

...Suren Pillay This article offers a few vignettes on the humanities in contemporary Africa. It suggests that the different fates of the humanities and social sciences have corresponded to changes in political conjunctures, particularly in relation to nationalism in the wake of independence...

..., that there exists a heavy preoccupation on the part of the HEC with what is called “scientism” in contradistinction to science. As a result of all this, Haq claims, knowledge of languages has all but disappeared from the educational horizons of Pakistan, and the capacity for analytical and critical thought...

... strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities. © 2016...

...Rabab El-Mahdi Abstract This article argues that the interplay between a limited disciplinary research agenda in political science and an overemphasis on quantitative methods has left a whole range of important untapped questions regarding the Middle East and North Africa. This is most obvious...

...K. Satyanarayana Responding to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory, Satyanarayana’s essay examines the significance of bringing Dalit experience into the public debate with reference to the practice of social sciences in particular...