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Hitler and India:
The untold Story of his Hatred for the Country and Its People
by Vaibhav Purandare
HarperCollins Publishers
207 pages
Price: Rs 399
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Adolf Hitler is considered by some as a friend of India because he hosted, even if briefly, Subhas Chandra Bose. This is perhaps one reason why his autobiography Mein Kampf sells well in this country. The reality is nauseatingly different, as journalist-author Vairbhav Purandare unveils in this path (…)
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An Expose of Hitler’s Disdain for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Bata: A multinational that stole Indian hearts | M.R. Narayan Swamy
8 October, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW Batanagar: A Personal History of India’s Forgotten Company Town
by Paramita Sen
Pan Macmillan India Pages: xxi + 225 It goes to the credit of Bata that it merged so beautifully with Indian ethos that millions for a long time never suspected that it was a multinational from Europe.
Bata’s quiet birth in India during the British rule, its steady expansion both before and after the country’s independence, and its closeness to the icons of the freedom movement gave the (…) -
Cultural Transformation at the End of Soviet Socialism
29 JulyBOOK REVIEW The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse by Joseph Kellner
Cornell University Press 2025. 242 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-8151-3 Reviewed by Margaret McCool
Joseph Kellner’s monograph, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse, offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on how ordinary Soviet citizens navigated the collapse of the Soviet Union by turning to new cultural phenomena to orient themselves to a rapidly changing (…) -
Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG
11 December 2020Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
November 23, 2020
Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…) -
Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle: Inside Stories | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
8 April 2023, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW
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Japanese Management, Indian Resistance: The Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers By Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar
Speaking Tiger, Harper Collins https://speakingtigerbooks.com/ 2023 / 366 pages ISBN-10 : 9354474446 | ISBN-13 : 978-9354474446 __0__
Real Stories: Behind the scenes
Maruti Suzuki workers have been in the public eye, largely due to the death of a manager, on 18 July 2012. Worker-management tension seemed to snowball (…) -
Review: Switala on A Social Ecology of Capital by Eric Pineault
25 August 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Leon Switala
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A Social Ecology of Capital by Éric Pineault
Pluto Press 2023. 176 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780745343778 eBook ISBN: 9780745343792 __0__
In a recently held presentation, the Canadian sociologist Éric Pineault stated that he was writing his book to show that on a theoretical and empirical basis ‘there is nothing between degrowth and green growth’. He gives systematic arguments that neither position for a growth perspective seems to be (…) -
Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History
13 September 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Abortion in Mexico: A History
by Nora E. Jaffary
University of Nebraska Press
Series: Engendering Latin America
2024, 163 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks to (…) -
Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma
2 June 2023BOOK REVIEW
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Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 : 9382381937 ISBN-13 : 978-9382381938 __0__
Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…) -
Review of Markus Rediker et. al. (eds.) A Global History of Runaways | Mark Dunick
6 April 2024BOOK REVIEW
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A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850
by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum, eds.
University of California Press 2019. Pages: 280 ISBN: 9780520304369.
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Workers on the Run during the Rise of Capitalism
The rise of the European empires between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries led to the creation of an increasingly global economic system based on long-distance trade, commodity production, and (…) -
Review: Story of the Telangana Region - in the Republic of India | Sreerupa Saha
5 March 2022Review by Sreerupa Saha*
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The Fall and Rise of Telangana
by Gautam Pingle
Orient Black Swan, India
2014
pp xvii+ 326
Paperback
Rs. 395
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The demand for separate statehood soaked in the spirit of subnationalism had a number of eruptive nodes in Indian federal polity, of which the demand for a separate Telangana state carved out from Andhra Pradesh remained active for the longest period in the history of independent India with a successful fulfillment of the (…)