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…
Biswamoy Pati, ed., Invoking Ambedkar: Contributions, Receptions, Legacies, Primus Books, Delhi, 2014, 172 pages, Rs 795. Saurabh Dube and Anupama Rao, eds., Crime through Time, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, lxiii+309 pages, Rs 895 Sabyasachi Dasgupta, In Defence of…
This year, in May 2015, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai received the Man Booker International Prize, and this burst the belief of Hungarians that they have a great literature that cannot be translated and understood. At the distribution ceremony Krasznahorkai was…
Ernst Waltraud and Biswamoy Pati, eds, India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism, Primus, Delhi, 2010. Romila Thapar, The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History, Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, 2014, 326 pages, Rs 595 Gargi Chakravartty and…
This note pertains to Prabhat Patnaik’s review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century, published in The Marxist, vol. 30, no. 2, April–June 2014. It seems to me that any critical assessment of Piketty’s book must, first of all,…
Praful Bidwai, outstanding political analyst, brilliant journalist, erudite social science researcher and public-spirited activist, died on 23 June 2015 in Amsterdam where he was attending the annual Transnational Institute (TNI) meeting. He was a long-time Fellow of TNI. Bidwai had…
Satadru Sen, Disciplined Natives: Race, Freedom and Confinement in Colonial India, Primus, Delhi, 2011, 359 pages, Rs 995 Samiksha Sehrawat, Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender, State, and Society, c. 1840–1920, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013, 292 pages,…