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…
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,…
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…
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…