Contents Foreword M. ASLAM PARVAIZ ix Three Hundred Years of History MADHUPRASAD xi Introduction SANJAYSHARMA Iv Capitalism and the Labouring Poor: Some Reflections P.C. JOSHI 1 Reason and History IRFANHABIB 13 The Nation-State in the Era of 'Globalization' PRABHATPATNAIK 26 Human Rights Education: The Promise of the Third Millennium UPENDRABAXI 38 The Tyranny of Labels ROMILATHAPAR 68 Uncommon Opportunities for a Learning Revolution M.S. SWAMINATHAN 87 The Constitution and the People SOMNATH CHATTERJEE 99 Civil Society and the Good Society ANDREBETEILLE 115 Urdu and the Question of Its Linguistic Identity NAMWARSINGH 132 viii CONTENTS The Power Politics of Culture: Akbar Ilahabadi and the Changing Order of Things SHAMS-UR-RAHMAN FARUQI 142 The Hegemony of English and Modern Indian Literatures SISIR KUMAR DAS 165 Globalization and Education: Defining the Indian Crisis ANILSADGOPAL . 174 Contributors 219