Frontline

Harvard University Press published Mou Banerjee’s The Disinherited. The book foregrounds the concept of 'disinheritance' to analyze Indian Christian subjectivity across colonial and postcolonial periods. Chapter 4 uses colonial and missionary archives to document the dispossession of Christian peasants in Baropakhya and records a split between evangelical supporters of converts and planter interests. Chapter 2 examines high-profile conversions of upper-caste schoolboys and attendant Anglo-Indian court disputes over maturity, conscience, and parental rights. Chapter 3 analyzes Gyanendramohan’s 1851 legal battle with his aristocratic father after the Lex Loci Act 1850 and compares disinheritance experiences across socio-economic classes, while noting a reviewer critique about the need for finer caste-class qualifications.

Capital‑intensive technology can raise output without corresponding employment growth. Reduced employment lowers mass effective demand even if incomes rise for higher‑skilled workers and entrepreneurs. Price variance explains a nominal portion of output variance, so price incentives provide only a short‑run production inducement. Vector autoregression analysis indicates employment and output responses to price shocks take a long horizon to stabilize.