Anand Zachariah, R. Srivatsan and Susie Tharu, eds, Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today, Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, 2010, 392 pages, Rs 525. Charles K. Ebinger, Energy and Security in South Asia, South Asia…
dates.sites: PROJECT CINEMA CITY Bombay/Mumbai, a Majlis project, concept and text: Madhusree Dutta, design and graphics: Shilpa Gupta and Madhusree Dutta, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2012, 240 pages, Rs 995. In the Cause of Dalits: Struggle for Social Justice, a…
In 2007, following the practice of erecting pandals (tent-houses) in the style of famous buildings during the Durga Puja celebrations, the FD Block Durga Puja Committee in Salt Lake, Kolkata had recreated the Hogwarts School of Magic and Wizardry from…
Michael H. Fisher, The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery Lunatic, Hurst and Company, London, distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books, 2010, 396 pages, Rs 660 Partho Dutta, Planning the City: Urbanisation and…
Christina Folke Ax, Neils Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen and Karen Oslund (Eds.), Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies, Ohio University Press, Athens, 2011, p. 337, price not mentioned. The book under review is a fresh new attempt…
Sanjukta Das Gupta, Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 1820–1932, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2011; HB, 367 pages, Rs. 695. Hitendra Patel, Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar, 1870–1930: Shaping Community and Nationhood, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi,…
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhury, Leftism in India: 1917-1947, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2007, pp.254; Rs. 375. Priyam Goswami, The History of Assam : From Yandabo to Partition, 1826-1947, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 300; Rs. 195.
In the analysis of Indian culture pativrata dharma has occupied pride of place. The greatness of Indian culture has often been measured on the touch-stone of its virtuous women. Interestingly, it \ was the early European Indolo-gists who started this…
Pranab Bardhan, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010, pp. 172, $25.95 / £17.95 Hardwari Lal, Understanding Politics and Society: 1910–1997, edited by Prem Chowdhary, Manak Publications, New Delhi,…
The historiography of the Sannyasi Rebellion has a chequered career. The first book about that uprising was a historical novel by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Ananda Math (1882). If Ananda Math is seen as an index of Bankim’s historical consciousness, one has…