About the Book: Tributes 1983-2013
Social Scientist completed forty years of publication in the year 2012. To mark
the occasion, collections of essays on specific topics, culled from past issues
of the journal, are being published-under a series titled From the Pages of
Social Scientist. The present book, Tributes, is a collection of obituary
articles published in the journal from 1983 to 2013. The list of omissions is
striking. There are, for instance, no obituaries on intellectual stalwarts of
the Left political movement like B.T. Ranadive, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, P.
Sundarayya and M. Basavapunnaiah. and the coverage of the lives of artists and
creative writers has been generally very