Conversations with Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar Memorial Lectures, Edited by Valerian Rodrigues, Tulika Books–Ambedkar University Delhi. Book Reivew by Moggallan Bhartiteaches Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), along with Tulika Books, has recently brought out a collection of the first ten Ambedkar Memorial…
Biswamoy Pati, Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800–1950, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, 221 pages, Rs 945. This posthumously published book consists of six chapters, of which three have been published earlier…
Hermann Kulke, History of Precolonial India: Issues and Debates, English edition revised and edited by Bharabi Prasad Sahu, New Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press, 2018, 383 pages, Rs 1195 The book was originally published in the year 2005 as a volume…
We live in a globalised and digitised age. Some of us receive news of friends through the internet, transact our purchases through the internet, conduct businesses through the internet, even receive our medicine through the internet. The richest four persons…
Kama Maclean, A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text, Penguin India, Gurgaon, 2016, xvii+305 pages, Rs 599. The historiography on militant and revolutionary anti-colonialism in India is witnessing a dawn of a new era. For decades,…
Smita Sahgal, Niyoga Alternative Mechanism to Lineage Perpetuation in Early India A Socio-Historical Enquiry Delhi: Primus Books, 2017, 242 pages, Rs 995 Submission has been held to be an appropriate virtue of women. It was supposed that a woman submits…
Anand Chakravarti, Is This Azaadi? Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2018, (xiv+266) 280 pages, Rs 750. This book is a major contribution to the ongoing research in the academic sphere on…
History and Class Consciousness – Lukacs’ interpretation of Marx, together with the reification chapter of the book – still commands a certain authority. But the book’s political texts, which Lukács thought originated from the same source as the book’s philosophical…
I must have been no more than four years old. A hired Omni Van used to ferry all the neighbourhood kids to our preparatory school. One day, the driver of the Van relayed to my mother - either bemused or…
Guru Rao Bapat and Lata Singh, eds., Performing Arts in India: Performances of/and Violence, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2016, 242, pages, Rs. 300. In a troubled time of ours when intolerance and bigotry of almost all sorts are…