Krishna Mohan Shrimali, Land, Agriculture and Money in Central India and Beyond (c. 100 to c 1300 CE): The Feudal Order Revisited, Aakar Books, Delhi, 2024, xxviii+488 pages, Rs. 1595. The preface to this new veritable sourcebook on Vākāṭaka and…
S. Irfan Habib, Maulana Azad: A Life, Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2023, xii+306 pages, Rs 899 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a polymath, nationalist, secularist par excellence, and a key figure in India’s nation-building process. The life and thought of the…
Biswamoy Pati, Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800–1950, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, xvi+222 pages, Rs 945 The book under review is the finale of a lifetime of Biswamoy Pati’s extraordinary publishing…
Paul S. Landau, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2022, 412 pages. The present book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries by Paul S. Landau, is meant primarily for that section of academia which is willing to approach…
Maya John, ed., Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns, Ne Delhi: Tulika Books, 2023, 300 pages, Rs 995. Economic Change in the Lower Cauvery Delta: A Study of Palakurichi and Venmani, edited by Madhura Swaminathan, V. Surjit, V. K.…
Tushar Gandhi, The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba, Harper Collins: Gurugram, 2023, ix+299 pages, Rs 399 ‘I have already said that Kasturbai was illiterate. I was very anxious to teach her, but lustful love left me no time. For…
Jagdish N. Sinha, Science, War and Imperialism: India in the Second World War , New Delhi: Manohar, 2023, ix+278 pages, Rs 1495 The relationship between science and colonisation has been influenced and complicated by the complex dynamism of knowledge and…
Saurav Kumar Rai, Debating Modern Indian History, Manak Publications, New Delhi, 2021, 218 pages, Rs 500 Debating Modern Indian History by Saurav Kumar Rai is a fascinating, engaging and reader-friendly book. It is an ambitious project which reappraises the conventional…
Sukumar Muralidharan, The Nation and Its Citizens: Tales of Bondage and Belonging, New Delhi: Rupa, 2022, 280 pages, Rs 395. The intellectual task that Sukumar Muralidharan in The Nation and its Citizens takes upon himself is a challenging, ambitious and…
Mumtaz Alam, Health, Medicine and the Encounter of Cultures in India, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2022, xiv+246 pages, Rs 1050. In the last few decades there has been a plethora of work exploring the history of medicine in India. However,…