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• Motivated Attempt To Denigrate The Constitution | Vijay Kumar
  17 August 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  The Colonial Constituion by Arghya Sengupta
  Juggernaut Page 285 Price Inr 599/-
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  The colonial constitution by Arghya Sengupta has come at a time when talks for the new Constitution are being floated in certain quarters, especially by those perceived to be close to the present ruling dispensation.
  The Constitution of India was the outcome of intense deliberations by the framers of the Constituent Assembly, on the one hand, (…)

• The ground-breaking theorisation on the people as co-authors of the constitution and their central role as constitutional actors | Vijay Kumar
  8 November 2025, by Vijay Kumar

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  Assembling India

• Quinn’s Review of Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by Jason A. Heppler
  5 October 2024

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  Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
  by Jason A. Heppler
  University of Oklahoma Press
  2024. 224 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-8061-9374-8
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  Reviewed by Adam Quinn (University of Oregon)

• Review: State Absence as Presence: Service Delivery in Postcolonial Nigeria | Ruth Carlitz
  10 February 2023

  Reviewed by Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam)
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  Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith
  Princeton: Princeton University Press
  2022. 232 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-22991-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-22989-8
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  The Nigerian expression Daniel Jordan Smith employs as the main title of his insightful 2022 book, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, (…)

• When America rained horror on Japan
  30 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
  by Iain MacGrego
  Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
  2025
  ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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  It was finally left to a crusading American journalist to puncture Washington

• Book Review: Hippies in the Soviet Union | Alexander Vari
  16 September 2022

  Reviewed by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
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  Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland.
  by Juliane Furst
  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 496 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-109251-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878832-4
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  Although hippiedom emerged first in the 1960s in the United States, attracting scholarly attention from early on, there is a rising interest in contemporary academia in exploring the hippie phenomenon as a global one.[1] For instance, (…)

• All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
  26 December 2009, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

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  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 tribute rather than a critical analysis of the content and arguments of the book. And I will not even try to pretend that I have been able to avoid that pitfall here, for I learnt my first lessons in the economic history of India from Professor Binay (…)

• Clevenger’s Review of Levett, G, ed., Sport in History Podcast
  5 March 2022

  Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
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  British Society of Sports History, 2020-21
  by Geoff Levett, ed.
  Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast __0__ Published on H-Podcast (February, 2022)
  Since 2020, the British Society for Sports History (BSSH), self-described as the United Kingdom’s “leading scholarly society for the history of sport,” has produced a podcast titled Sport in History Podcast. As of this (…)

• Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis
  22 April

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  Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
  by Alice Lovejoy
  University of California Press
  2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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  Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D

• Review of Rossen Djagalov’s, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds | Joshua First
  20 February 2021

  Rossen Djagalov. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6; $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00110-2.
  Reviewed by Joshua First (The University of Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
  Rossen Djagalov begins his book, From (…)