Articles by Mohit Sen

August 2, 1969 Finally, Raj puts forward an amazing argument purported to demonstrate that religious sentiment does not have much effect on the size and composition of the livestock held in India, He observes that "it is in the Indo- Gangetic valley where Hindu orthodoxy is deeply entrenched and the sentiment against the killing of cows is strongest, that the pressure of human and bovine population on resources makes it most necessary to get rid of cows in preference for bulls for traction purposes and she-buffaloes for milk". He asks: "How does the table get turned so dramatically against the cows in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh?"; and answers: "Obviously, killing must be taking place, but perhaps the main technique adopted for getting rid of the cows is infanticide and deliberate, starvation". Apparently, this does not concern Raj as an economist. Does he suggest that infanticide and starvation are exact substitutes for slaughter and result in exactly the same size and ages- ex composition of the cattle population? Even supposing that they do, does he suggest that infanticide and starvation are economic substitutes for slaughter? Does he not recognise that the choice between infanticide-starvation and selective slaughter affects materially the relevant production functions in the livestock economy?

Greatness by Revivals Karl Marx: The 150th Year Mohit Sen In contrast to the thirties and the forties, when Marx literally burst upon the Indian intelligentsia, a fair amount of solid, empirical, investigative work has now been done in various fields by Marxist scholars. This is particularly true of economic history.

Mohit Sen The problem singled out for discussion here does not relate immediately to the great achieve- ments within the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik break-through in November 1917. It is that of combining peaceful co-existence with solidarity of world revolutionary forces outside the Soviet Union.

Mohit Sen What we are witnessing in India today is polarisation, beyond what had existed during the freedom struggle and afterwards.
The rumblings and the crises are the product of the end of four decades and more of what one may call the undivided hegemony of the national bourgeoisie. And this is paralleled by the process of growing objective differentiation within this class with the emergence of clearly defined oligopolistic houses of industry and high finance.

Mohit Sen Two significant aspects of the Congress debacle in the election need to be noted.
First, while the country has moved to the Left, the composition of the Congress power structure has changed in favour of the Right. The Left in the Congress has been left practically without a spokesman in Parliament. And the Congressmen from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mysore, UP, Bihar etc returned to the Lok Sabha are more to the Right than their predecessors in the third Lok Sabha.