Maya Tudor, The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, xvi+240 pages, 2013, Rs 795. What are the reasons that some developing countries, on deliverance from colonial rule, are able to…
Rattan Lal Hangloo (ed.), Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean, History, Culture and Identity, Primus Book, New Delhi, India, 2012, 174 pages, Rs 795. Davesh Soneji, Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012,…
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism, Cambridge University Press, first South Asian edition, 2013, 364 pages, Rs 795. Nilanjana Sengupta, A Gentleman’s Word: The Legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in South…
Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology, Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, 2012, 191 pages, Rs 350 Charu Gupta, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2012, viii+394 pages, Rs 845.
Nitya Ramakrishnan, In Custody: Law, Impunity and Prisoner abuse in South asia, Delhi, jointly published by SAGE Publications India and South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), 2013, 452 pages, Rs 995. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, The Changing Gaze: Regions and the…
Amitava Chatterjee, People at Large: Popular Culture in Modern Bengal, Setu Prakashani, Kolkata, 2012, xiii+184 pages, Rs 235. Raziuddin Aquil and Kaushik Roy, eds., Warfare, Religion, and Society in Indian History, Manohar, New Delhi, 2012, 341 pages, Rs 995. Vijaya…
I would briefly describe in this paper the general character of the Santal Rebellion (1855–1856) and certain incidents of the rebellion turned out to be a foremost peasant upsurge in Bengal during the first half of the eighteenth century and…
Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India, Foundation Books, Delhi, 2012, 177 pages, Rs. 695/- Discourses on health and medicine in colonial India were never isolated. Rather, these often got intertwined with several other discourses on caste, class,…
Kunwar Muhammad Ashraf was an outstanding Marxist intellectual who died in 1962. An active participant in the anti-colonial struggle, he was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), and served as Secretary to both Maulana Azad and Jawaharlal…
In the early twentieth century, history became a matter of public passion in Bengal. Placed in the well-developed public sphere of Bengal that became the locus of all political and intellectual activities, history transformed into a ‘major site through which,…