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Annie Zaidi, Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales of India, Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2023, xiii+250 pages, Rs 499 The present book is primarily about groups who are marginalised or are on the verge of it. Divided into seven…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Book Review : Mandela and the Revolutionaries,
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…
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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.…
Book Review: The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba
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…
Book Review : Science, War and Imperialism: India in the Second World War
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…
Book Review : Debating Modern Indian History
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…
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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…