Book Review

Articles

• Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
  18 April 2009, by Daya Varma
  Review Article
  The following review article has been sent to the Mainstream editor on April 6 with a note from the reviewer that reads:
  “I am submitting a review of Gargi Chakravartty’s P.C. Joshi: A Biography for favour of publication in  (...)
• Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
  18 August 2013
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Yogesh Puri
  Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem” and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
  “...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose  (...)
• Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
  27 November 2015, by Gabriele Dietrich
  BOOK REVIEW
  Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
  This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation  (...)
• All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
  26 December 2009, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
  BOOK REVIEW
  Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
  It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a  (...)
• Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
  19 May 2007, by G Narasimha Raghavan
  Development Discourse: Issues and Concerns by T.K. Oommen; Regency Publications, New Delhi; 2004 .
  Back in 1965, Dudley Seers wondered aloud:
  What has been happening to poverty? What has been happening to unemployment? What has been happening to  (...)
• Wan on Williamson and Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’
  1 March
  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
  
  Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey, eds.
  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-1-350-07042-4
  
  Wan on  (...)
• IFS Officer Recalls Charms, Challenges | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW __0__
  Indian Foreign Service: Charms and Challenges by T.P. Sreenivasan
  Current Books ISBN : 978-93-5482-615-3 Pages:108 Price: Rs 250 https://ebooks.dcbooks.com/indian-foreign-service-charms-and-challenges
  
  Nawaz Sharif told  (...)
• Revisiting the 1943 Bengal Famine | Arup Kumar Sen
  19 July, by Arup Kumar Sen
  BOOK REVIEW
  The Bengal famine of 1943 has found expressions in the academic discourse over the years. Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981) and Paul R. Greenough’s Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of  (...)
• Book Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
  18 June 2021
  ‘Rogues among the Ruins’
  by Achala Moulik
  December 2021 ; 312 pages
  ISBN: 978-93-89136-69-2
  Olive Turtle - Niyogi Books
  The novel by Achala Moulik titled ‘Rogues among the Ruins’, Neogi Publishers, was debated recently at a book discussion at  (...)
• Indian State Kills a Muslim’s Soul | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  24 February, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  The Diary of Gul Mohammad: A Kashmiri Muslim Boy’s Journey from Kashmir to Kerala
  by Humra Quraishi
  Oxford University Press Pages: x + 172; Price: Rs 185
  
  He is all of 14 years when Gul Mohammad’s worried family decides it  (...)

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