Sohini Sarah Pillai, Krishna’s Mahābhāratas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative, Oxford University Press, 2024, xiv+278, Rs 1095. As an epic tradition, the Sanskrit Mahābhārata has been narrated, retold, imagined and performed by poets, authors, composers, and storytellers, repeatedly, ever…
Geeta Kapur, Speech Acts, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2025, 284 pages, Rs 995. That art is not originary to Geeta Kapur’s most recent book can be seen in its title: Speech Acts. Kapur remains the most formidable practitioner of a…
Himani Bannerji, Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2024, x+234 pages, Rs 995It is perhaps evidence of the living influence of Tagore on our lives and our culture that studies on his work…
Ali Raza, Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2020, 287 pages, Rs 995 Ali Raza’s book under review, Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India, is a significant contribution to the history of the communist…
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…
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.…