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• Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle: Inside Stories | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  8 April 2023, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  BOOK 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 (…)

• Sustained from Below: Dalit Women and the Ambedkarite Movement’s Limits of Liberation 
| Theertha Praveen Panachoor
  25 June

  BOOK REVIEW 1. The Prisons We Broke, Baby Kamble, trans. Maya Pandit. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2008. 2. We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement, Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon, trans. Wandana Sonalkar. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2008. 
The history of the Ambedkarite movement in India has largely been written as a history of its leadership. Its constitutional achievements, its formal organisations and its founding figure are well documented. What has received far less attention is (…)

• Checkmating Communist China’s Rise and Rise | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  9 September 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
  John Murray Press ISBN-13: 9781529367799 Pages: xxix + 305; Price: Rs 799
  __0__ By now there is a growing amount of scholarship that the West, particularly the United States, has realized its folly of having allowed China to grow into an economic behemoth under the naive belief that the Communist state would embrace democratic values if it fell in love with capitalism. The reverse has happened, with (…)

• Book Review: British Savagery in Delhi After 1857 | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  19 August 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Book Review __0__ Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857
  Khwaja Hasan Nizami Translated by Rana Safvi
  Hachette India Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9393701148 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9393701145
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  When the British finally reconquered Delhi with the help of loyal Indian troops after the 1857 revolt, the retribution was swift and brutal, without any regard for justice and fair play. Not only were (…)

• A Maverick Whose Instinct Worked | N. Sathiya Moorthy
  26 January 2025, by N. Sathiya Moorthy

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  A Maverick in Politics
  by Mani Shankar Aiyar
  Juggernaut
  Pages: 410 Price: Rs 711
  ISBN: 9789353457679
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  At a time when commentaries on current affairs have become a rarity, three-term Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyar

• Delhi Model: When good governance and trickle-up economics merged | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• The Parasol Women of Kerala | Papri Sri Raman
  7 December 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Revolution Within
  Nampudiri Women as Agents of Social Reform in Kerala
  by T K Anandi
  Tulika Books
  2024, 200 pages
  Hardcover ISBN 978-81-958394-8-3
  Price: Rs 850
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  THIS IS A story of lost agency. A story of the shadows under the lamp. Painstakingly crafted by T K Anandi, a meticulous gender researcher, now a consultant to Kerala

• How America
  14 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Long Southern Strategy:
  How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
  by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
  Oxford University Press:
  Pages: xxiii + 534
  ISBN-10 ? : ? 0190265965
  ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0190265960
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  For a long time, Democrats had painted the entire southern United States blue, winning the hearts of the white majority in the sprawling region. There was a reason for this. The Democratic Party (…)

• Review: Story of the Telangana Region - in the Republic of India | Sreerupa Saha
  5 March 2022

  Review 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 (…)

• Review of Harris’s Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income | Domonkos Sik
  1 June

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  Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income
  by Neal Harris
  Manchester University Press
  2026. 184 pp.,
  ISBN 9781526172228
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  Reviewed by Domonkos Sik
  Neal Harris is taking on a daunting quest: critiquing those emancipatory movements that, by their own definition and according to the mainstream view of Marxist and critical sociology, are supposed to widen the