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• Review of Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng, The Matter of Facts | Jessica R. Avery
  19 August 2022

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  __0__ The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science
  by Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng
  Cambridge: MIT Press 2020. Illustrations. 376 pp (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-04388-5; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-35828-6.
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  Reviewed by Jessica R. Avery (DePaul University)
  As the title suggests, Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng’s collaborative book, The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science, presents an insightful, critical, and (…)

• Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers | Bharat Dogra
  1 July 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar have just written a book that simply has to be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India. This is also a must reading for all Japanese people involved with human rights to get a glimpse of the havoc their companies cause in the lives of innocent workers and poor people in developing countries.
  The reference here is to a book on victimized Maruti Suzuki workers titled ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of (…)

• Review: Rani and Raza on Heewon Kim’s The Struggle for Equality
  27 May 2022

  Reviewed by: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza
  __0__ The Struggle for Equality: India’s Muslims and Rethinking the UPA Experience by Heewon Kim
  Cambridge University Press 2019 Pages‘s: 247 Online ISBN: 9781108235839
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  The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government (2004-14) led by the congress came to power with strong policy initiative for the religious minorities of India more specifically aiming at Muslims. A series of measure were identified for the implementation to create (…)

• 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

• Journey of a city | Joydip Ghosal
  7 September 2024

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  Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit
  HarperCollins Publishers India
  P- ISBN – 978-93-5629-411-0
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  Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit documents the change in city’s character and landscape . This book stands as a testament to author’s in- depth knowledge of the city. He loves the city and its people from the core of his heart. He knows every nooks and corner of the city. Rasheed Kidwai (…)

• Review of Goldstein & Nost eds., The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  25 February 2023

  Reviewed by Anne-Lise Boyer (University of Arizona) __0__
  The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  by Jenny Goldstein, Eric Nost, eds.
  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2022. ix + 328 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1715-8; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-3250-2
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  At a time when the apparent dematerialization of economies, the hypertrophy of the digital sphere, the predominance of social networks, and the advancement of artificial intelligence value the (…)

• Freeman’s Review of Elizabeth Flock. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
  4 May 2024

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  Reviewed by Jo Freeman
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  The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
  Harper 2024. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780063048805 ISBN 10: 0063048809
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  Women Who Fight Back
  The author’s quest to find women who fought back began when she was raped by a tour guide in Rome after he slipped her a sedative. She did not report the incident because she did not think anyone would believe her. But it consumed her thoughts for decades, (…)

• Armston-Sheret. Review of Jones, Ryan Tucker, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  28 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Edward Armston-Sheret (Institute of Historical Research)
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  The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  by Ryan Tucker Jones. Red Leviathan
  University of Chicago Press, 2022 Illustrations. xvii + 269 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-62885-1
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  Red Leviathan, by Ryan Tucker Jones, is a well-researched and clearly written book of immense interest to scholars working in a variety of fields. Jones provides a detailed and insightful history of whaling in the Soviet (…)

• Review of Stanley’s How Fascism Works | Waheed Ahmad Rather
  19 July 2025

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  How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
  by Jason Stanley
  Random House
  2018, xix, 218 pp, Price. Rs 582.00
  (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-525-51183-0
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  Jason Stanley

• When Truth Defeated Murdoch | M R Narayan Swamy
  2 April 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies Publishers: Vintage Books, London; Pages 444; Price: 14.99 pounds
  FOR too long he was considered invincible. The Australia-born American media mogul was all too powerful, who thought he could make and unmake governments — if nowhere else certainly in Britain. And his was a vast empire. Murdoch owned (and still does) hundreds of local, national and international publishing outlets including The Sun and (…)