Deonnie Moodie

Abstract America’s first university business schools were established in an imperial episteme. The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the University of Chicago’s College of Commerce and Administration, and Berkeley’s College of Commerce were established between 1891 and 1898 upon the discipline of political economy.

Abstract S.K. Chakraborty was the first to produce Hindu formulations of management knowledge from the authoritative site of an elite management institute. I examine here two of the institutions that produced and authorised Chakraborty: the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and Vivekananda Nidhi, a Kolkata-based institution devoted to ‘value orientation’.

Part of our forum, Slandering the Sacred. In Slandering the Sacred, Barton J. Scott works backwards from a colonial India penal code, taking us into the concrete nineteenth-century world of insults and intimacy, disdain and devotion that produced modern laws governing words. The book is illuminating on several major points with implications across fields of study. Scott's primary argument is that empire is the ground of the production of secularism and its uncanny twin, religion.