This might be of interest.... EPW, the Economic and Political Weekly, has published a July 26, 2008 special issue on *D D Kossambi: The Man and His Work*. It contains articles by Meera Kosambi (DD Kossambi, The Scholar and the Man), Romila Thapar (Early Indian History and the Legacy of DD Kossambi), Sheldon Pollock (Towards a Political Philology, DD Kossambi and Sanskrit), Kunal Chakrabarti (The Lily and the Mud -- DDK on Religion), Shreen Ratnagar (Kosambi's archaeology), Kumkum Roy (Kosambi and Questions of Caste), Irfan Habib (Kosambi, Marxism and Indian-History), Rajan Gurukkal (The Kosambi Effect -- a Hermeneutic Turn That Shook Indian Historiography), B D Chattopadhyaya (DDK and the study of early Indian coins), ivek Monteiro (Science is the cognition of necessity).
For copies, write to Circulation Manager, EPW, 320-321 A to Z Industrial Estate, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013 [email protected] -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them." - Sue Grafton
