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SEMINAR FROM 1959 ONWARDS

1959

1. The Party in Power
2. Food for Forty Crores
3. Freedom and Planning
4. The Changing Village

1960

5. Co-operative Farming
6. Two Sectors
7. Our Universities
8. Corruption
9. Films
10. Indians in Africa
11. A Language for India
12. Health
13. The Third World
14. Tribal India
15. Into Space
16. Artists and Art

1961

17. Socialism Today
18. The Census
19. Our Foreign Policy
20. Waste
21. The Writer at Bay
22. Administration
23. North and South
24. Communalism
25. Philosophy
26. Science
27. Advertising
28. Music

1962

29. Your Vote
30. Our Democracy
31. The U.N.
32. On Stage
33. Population Control
34. Election Analysis
35. India’s Defence
36. The Scientist
37. Our Neighbours
38. Indian Agriculture
39. Past and Present
40. Romanisation

1963

41. The Emergency
42. The Press
43. Taxation
44. Crisis on the Campus
45. Non-Alignment
46. Gandhism
47. Censorship
48. India and Pakistan
49. Panchayati Raj
50. China
51. Emerging Leadership
52. The Indian Woman

1964

53. The Coming Crisis
54. Worker’s Share
55. Scientific Attitude
56. India in the World
57. Needs and Resources
58. Kashmir
59. Jawaharlal Nehru
60. Prohibition
61. Energy
62. The Consumer
63. Nehru and the Ism
64. Our Changing Values

1965

65. The Bomb
66. Parliament in Crisis
67. Secularism
68. Language
69. Goa
70. Caste
71. At School
72. Public Sector
73. Indo-Soviet Link
74. Money and Power
75. The War and After
76. Politics of Language

1966

77. We and the World
78. The Plan
79. Our Cities
80. Elections and Power
81. Farms and Food
82. Science in Afro-Asia
83. India’s Defence Pattern
84. The I.C.S.
85. The Administrative Jungle
86. Aid or Trade
87. State Politics
88. Students in Turmoil

1967

89. Your Vote
90. Our Union
91. The Economic Crisis
92. Our Brain Drain
93. The Cow
94. Election Outcome
95. Power Patterns
96. Asian Security
97. Books
98. Mass Communication
99. Design for Living
100. Seminar on Seminar

 

1968

101. Prices
102. Unctad
103. Recession
104. The Future of Asia
105. The Budget and the Plan
106. Minority in Crisis
107. Politics and Society
108. Agricultural Revolution
109. Management Challenge
110. Our Security
111. The Centre and the States
112. Academic Colonialism

1969

113. The New Left
114. Resources
115. Nationhood
116. Violence
117. Pakistan
118. Gerontocracy
119. Our External Relations
120. The Educated Unemployed
121. The Congress Party
122. Mahatma Gandhi
123. Conservation
124. Our Political Parties

1970

125. Secularism in Crisis
126. Our Libraries
127. India’s Left
128. Modernisation
129. The Rural Base
130. Population Planning
131. Foreign Technology
132. Nation and Community
133. The Super Powers
134. The U.N. at 25
135. Two Neighbours
136. The Constitution

1971

137. India 1970
138. Your Vote
139. Political Pointers
140. Land Hunger
141. The Blue Revolution
142. Bangladesh
143. The Economic Agenda
144. The 1971 Elections
45. China Today
146. A Nuclear India
147. Crisis in the Press
148. Acapolitics

1972

149. India 1971
150. Impact of Bangaladesh
151. Secret Societies
152. West Bengal
153. State Elections
154. Permits and Licenses
155. India in Asia
156. Decentralisation
157. The Social Sciences
158. New Education
159. Clean Elections 160.
The Mass Line

1973

161. India 1972
162. Mass Housing
163. Calcutta
164. Federal Reorganisation
165. The Status of Women
166. Our Paralysed Universities
167. Garibi Hatao
168. A Committed Civil Service
169. Science Policy
170. No-Cost Reform
171. Mass Transport
172. The Indian Economy

1974

173. India 1973
174. Indian Muslims
175. Population Threat
176. The Students Speak
177. The Untouchables
178. Marxism and India
179. The Multinationals
180. The Architect in India
181. The Indian Ocean
182. The Energy Crisis
183. Growing the Food
184. The Cinema Situation

1975

185. India 1974
186. Foreign Policy
187. A Changed India
188. Inflation
189. Prices and Procurement
190. Medicines for the Masses
191. Urbanisation
192. The System
193. The Economists
194. The Legacy of Gandhi
195. Global Problems
196. Judgements

1976

197. India 1975
198. The Economic Debate
199. New Trends
200. Life and Living
201. Changing Communism
202. A Military View
203. Where Do We Go From Here
204. not printed
205. not printed
206. not printed
207. not printed
208. not printed

SEMINAR issues 204
(August 1976) to
209 (January 1977) were not
printed because of censorship
during the Emergency

1977

209. not printed
210. Fear and Freedom
211. Images of the Emergency
212. The Elections
213. The Correctives
214. Atrocities
215. Rethinkings
216. The Janata Phase
217. External Alignments
218. The Police
219. Action Agendas
220. Bengal Scenario

1978

221. India 1977
222. Indian Intellectuals
223. Economic Imperatives
224. Populist Politics
225. Defence and Detente
226. Federal Power Balance
227. The Rural Challenge
228. The Sixth Plan
229. New Dialogues
230. The Administrator
231. Trauma of the Triangle
232. Another TV

1979

233. India 1978
234. Grassroots Democracy
235.The Village and the Communicator
236. Emerging Questions
237. Threatened Environment
238. Politics of Science
239. The Autonomy Myth
240. The Muslim Condition
241. The Election Business
242. Our Fractured Politics
243. Harijans
244. Economic Scenarios

1980

245. India 1979
246. External Action
247. The Planets
248. Transition Politics
249. Development Dimensions
250. The Violent Present
251. Debating an Agenda
252. Policing
253. The Dangerous Decade
254. Studying our Society
255. Raw Power
256. Alternatives in Foreign Policy

1981

257. India 1980
258. A Failed Science
259. The Politicians
260. Parliament
261. Concepts in Change
262. Levels of Consciousness
263. The World of Microprocessors
264. Search for Consensus
265. The Soviet Connection
266. Confusion in Economics
267. Peasants and Prices
268. Reservations

1982

269. India 1981
270. The Arming of a Subcontinent
271. India: Seen from Abroad
272. The Campus Scene
273. Refocussings
274. Nepali Reflections
275. Childhood Today
276. Our National Character
277. Searching for Answers
278. The Future of Politics
279. Playing Games
280. A Confused World

1983

281. India 1982
282. Three Hundred Millions
283. The Parallel Economy
284. Revivalism
285. Breakdown
286. Global Choices
287. Security
288. The Political Options
289. Federal Focus
290. Islam
291. Social Dilemmas
292. The Messy Media

1984

293. This India
294. The Punjab Tangle
295. Marxian Shadings
296. Directions in Education
297. Values in Learning
298. Coalition Future
299. New Elites
300. The Sexist Media
301. A Federal Remedy
302. Lawless Laws
303. Pakistan Perceptions
304. Indira Gandhi

1985

305. India 1984
306. Behind the Ballot
307. The National Condition
308. Using the Army
309. The Faces of Reality
310. A Warless World
311. Meditation
312. Architectural Pollution
313. The Hindus and Their Isms
314. Issues Within Issues
315. The Politics of Change
316. The Economy

1986

317. India 1985
318. Purdah Culture
319. Freeing the Media
320. The Total State
321. Indian English
322. Divisive Currents
323. Scenarios for Change
324. Options in South Asia
325. The Judicial Jungle
326. Punjab Perspectives
327. Web of Censorship
328. Priorities

1987

329. India 1986
330. The Politics of Ecology
331. Femicide
332. Urdu
333. Raj Thapar 1926-1987
334. Inter-ventions
335. Our Institutions
336. A Second Republic
337. Sri Lanka
338. Past in the Present
339. Rethinking Theology
340. Romesh Thapar 1922-1987

1988

341. India 1987
342. Sati
343. A Free Press
344. Integrity
345. Punjab
346. Drought
347. Right to Work
348. The Voluntary Option
349. New Dimensions in Science
350. Child Labour
351. Pakistan Scenarios
352. Farmer Power

1989

353. India 1988
354. The Technology Missions
355. New Social Movements
356. Design and Aesthetics
357. Federalism
358. Foreign Policy in a Changing World
359. Literature and Society
360. The Panchayati Revival
361. Reflections
362. Parties and Politics
363. The Nehru Era
364. Mythifying History

1990

365. Towards 2000 AD
366. The North East
367. Politics of the State
368. The People’s Verdict
369. Health for All?
370. Nuclear Power
371. Cricket Culture
372. Our Urban Future
373. Socialism in Crisis
374. Communal Divides
375. Reserved Futures
376. The Eighth Plan

1991

377. India 1990
378. The Himalaya
379. City Nostalgia
380. Freeing the Economy
381. After the Gulf War
382. The Urban Woman
383. Defence Perspectives
384. New Writing in English
385. Beyond the Vote
386. Repercussions of Change
387. Identity
388. Politicians on Politics

1992

389. India 1991
390. Making Waves
391. The Linguistic Landscape
392. Kashmir Today
393. The Soviet Experience
394. Dialogue
395. Real Concerns
396. Aids
397. Wooing Japan
398. Understanding Punjab
399. Politics Today
400. Education and Ideology

1993

401. India 1992
402. Ayodhya
403. Growing Up
404. The Telecom Revolution
405. Politics of Accountability
406. Managing Our Natural Resources
407. Left Dilemmas
408. Culture, Communication and Change
409. Our Scientists
410. Population Planning
411. Revivalism and Identity
412. Marginalised Tribals

1994

413. India 1993
414. Managing Energy
415. Future of the Mind
416. Islam: Reform and Renewal
417. The BJP
418. Seeds of Discontent
419. Infrastructure
420. Memories of Partition
421. Looking Back
422. The U.S. and Us
423. Parallel Practices
424. Family Matters

1995

425. India 1994
426. Parks, Protection and People
427. Living Treasures
428. The Politics of Health
429. Globalisation and the Unions
430. Justice For All
431. Voices From the Field
432. The Matter of U.P.
433. Food Security
434. Rules and Laws
435. The Limits of Tolerance
436. Learning to Change

1996

437. India 1995
438. Grassroots Governance
439. Prisons and Punishment
440. The Election Carnival
441. A Question of Rights
442. Nationalism
443. Little Voices, Big Issues
444. Nuclear Fallout
445. The Other City
446. Cultural Studies
447. Reproductive Health
448. Maritime Security

1997

449. India 1996
450. The State of Bihar
451. Democracy and Development
452. Workers and Unions
453. Symbolic Spaces
454. Political Exhaustion
455. Alternatives in Communication
456. Rethinking Institutions
457. Empowering Women
458. Media Trends
459. Unity or Incoherence
460. Futures

1998

461. India 1997
462. Childhood
463. Refugees
464. Right to Education
465. Power Play
466. Wildlife
467. Conserving our Heritage
468. Nuclear (In)security
469. Swadeshi
470. Gujarat
471. Dalit
472. External Challenges

1999 (from issue 481 on-line)

473. India 1998
474. Continuing Concerns
475. Growing Intolerance
476. The Sikh Spirit
477. The Pursuit of Purpose
478. Floods
479. Something Like a War
480. Cruel Choices
481. The Idea of Seminar
482. Family Business
483. Policespeak
484. Multiculturalism

2000

485. India 1999
486. Environment: Myth and Reality
487. Looking East
488. Ageing
489. Unhealthy Trends
490. African Transitions
491. Street Vendors
492. Protecting Nature
493. Redesigning Curricula
494. Unviable Universities
495. Situating Sociology
496. Frameworks For Peace

2001

497. India 2000
498. Markets in Motion
499. Wastelands
500. Through the Decades
501. Culturescape
502. Our Corrupted Core
503. Globalization
504. Drug Abuse
505. Towards Equality
506. Reforming Politics
507. Economic Turmoil
508. Exclusion

2002

509. India 2001
510. Porous Borders, Divided Selves
511. Beyond Numbers
512. States of Insecurity
513. Society Under Siege
514. Where People Matter
515. First City?
516. Shades of Green
517. Securing South Asia
518. The Aftermath of 9/11
519. Uncertain Futures
520. A World Without AIDS.

2003

521. India 2002
522. Rewriting History
523. Celebrating Craft
524. Imagining Futures
525. Unsettling Cinema
526. A Party in Waiting
527. The Great Game
528. City of Dreams
529. Empire
530. Restoration and Renewal
531. Footloose Labour
532. Abortion

2004

533. India 2003
534. Beyond the Verdict
535. Changing Chennai
536. Are We Learning?
537. India Shining
538. The Diaspora
539. A Mandate for Change
540. Celebrating Women
541. New Priorities
542. Working Conservation
543. Amchem Goem
544. Elusive Justice

 

   

 

   

 


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