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• African Soldiers Remember the Great War | Melvin E. Page
  29 May 2021

  Reviewed by Melvin E. Page (East Tennessee State University)
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  Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor. White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited and introduction by George Robb. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021. Illustrations. 200 pp. $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62466-951-4
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  White War, Black Soldiers is a welcome addition to the growing effort to bring African voices from World War I to an (…)

• Emergency Raj to Modi Raj
 - Second Coming of the Nightmare? | Sukla Sen
  9 March 2024, by Sukla Sen

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  Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day by Prabir Purkayastha
  LeftWord Books, New Delhi
  2023 230 pages Paperback 978-93-92018-97-8 Ebook 978-93-92018-58-9
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  The Context


  The rather slim volume, Keeping Up The Good Fight: From The Emergency To The Present Day, by Prabir Purkayastha, having some 230 pages in all – that includes, inter alia, a Foreword and seven sections of the main text plus customary (…)

• Review of Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Edited by Jaya Mehta | K.S. Chalam
  3 August 2024

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  Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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  Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had a (…)

• Wan on Williamson and Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’
  1 March 2024

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  Reviewed by Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
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  Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey, eds.
  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-1-350-07042-4
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  Wan on Williamson et. al, Making Disability Modern
  As a promising academic field, disability studies is currently undergoing a material turn. The proliferation of scholarly writings about the past and present of (…)

• Raza on Hindi translation of Maulana Azad speech Qaul-e-Faisal
  26 November 2022

  Book Review by Aamir Raza
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  Qaul-e-Faisal: Insaaf ki baat by Maulana Azad Translated by Mohammad Naushad
  Setu Prakashan 198 pages Rs 325
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  The sedition law in India has colonial origin and served as an effective tool in the hands of the British imperialist rulers to suppress dissent against its actions and policies. In the last few years, the number of Sedition cases filed against the individual has risen substantially. The Sedition law has been repeatedly used to harass (…)

• A Haunting portrait of forgotten Agariyas of Kutch: A Review of Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt" | Bhavna Harchandani
  9 November 2024

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  A touch of salt
  By Anita Agnihotri
  Translated by Arunava Sinha
  Penguin Books
  2024 / 180 pages
  ISBN 9780143465812
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  Reviewed by Bhavna Harchandani
  Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt", masterfully translated by Arunava Singh, is a poignant and evocative novel that sheds light on the overlooked lives of salt cultivators in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The eleven-chapter book critically examines the historical (…)

• Learning from the past of India’s forests | Dinesh C Sharma
  15 August

  BOOK REVIEW India’s Forests: Revisiting Nature and History Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan (Editors) Vintage 343 pages Price 999 Forests have been at the centre of human life since ancient times. They are part of history, archaeology, myths, culture, livelihoods, politics, commerce, and much more. Forests are closely inter-linked with all activities in the modern era – food, fuel, water, energy, development, transportation, human health, recreation and so on. Their extent, quality (…)

• Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  4 November 2022, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

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  Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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  Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
  Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN: 9781009180214 __0__
  This book seeks to redraw the map of Bangalore, based on the experiences of street-based sex workers—so that we begin to see the city through their eyes. Their livelihoods rendered increasingly precarious due to neo-liberal (…)

• 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, (…)

• Indian History or Propaganda? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  11 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Don’t Forward That Text! Separating Myths from History on Social Media
  by Amit Schandillia
  HarperCollins India Pages: 303 Price: Rs 399
  So, many Hindu temples did Tipu Sultan destroy?
  Many, most might answer. Innumerable, Hindu radicals are bound to assert. History communicator Amit Schandilia’s meticulous research leads to findings that are bound to shock everyone: those who view the Muslim king positively and those who hate him.
  At the height of the (…)