Assets are an important indicator of economic well-being of households. Acquired through inheritance, gifts (including dowry) and accumulated savings, assets provide means of livelihood as well as security against adverse economic shocks. In his widely acclaimed recent book, Thomas Piketty…
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik, A Theory of Imperialism, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016, xxviii + 212 pages, Rs 695 This book is a brilliant exposition of the origin of capitalist colonialism and imperialism and its sustenance. The two major…
Jayanta Sengupta, At the Margins: Discourses of Development, Democracy, and Regionalism in Orissa, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiv + 441 pages, Rs 1195 This book has its roots in a Cambridge University thesis titled ‘Politics in Orissa, 1900–1956:…
P. Chandramohan, Developmental Modernity in Kerala: Narayana Guru, SNDP Yogam and Social Reform, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016, xiv + 260 pages, Rs 750 The question of modernity and the theoretical approaches that are used to describe and explain it…
Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop (eds), Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India, Anthem Press, Delhi, 2015, 254 pages, Rs. 695. Sudha Sharma, The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India. Sage Publications; 2016, 270 pages Rs. 750.
Ali Usman Qasmi, The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan, Anthem Press India, 2015, 278 pages, Rs 695 O.P. Jaiswal and Bijoy Kumar Choudhary (ed.), Archaeology and Art of Ganga, Gandak and Kosi Basin, Bihar: A Felicitation…
The Republic of Reason – Words They Could Not Kill: Selected Writings of Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi, Sahmat, New Delhi, 2015, 120 pages, Rs 120 Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2016, 180 pages, Rs 895…
Vaqar Siddiqui, Do Sarfarosh Shaa‘ir, Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’ aur Ashfaqullah Khan ‘Hasrat’ (Urdu), New Delhi: Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu, 2015, 179 pages, Rs 180 Sunayan Sharma, Sariska: The Tiger Reserve Roars Again, New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2015, 224 pages, Rs 650…
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Indo-Persian Historiography to the Fourteenth Century, New Delhi: Primus, 2014, 260 pages, Rs 1095 The present volume makes an attempt to study literary production in the fourteenth century, and the cultural milieu that made the amalgamation of…
Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Amita Chatterjee (eds.), Marxism: With and Beyond Marx, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014, 279 pages, Rs 850. A rapidly changing world and newly emerging challenges to a progressive social transformation demand a re examination and rethinking of…