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Reviewed by Animesh Chatterjee (Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger)
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Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
by Deepanwita Dasgupta
University of Pittsburgh Press 2021. 312 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8229-8802-1 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4656-4.
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Outlining her arguments, Deepanwita Dasgupta writes that the purpose of Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of (…)
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Credible Fantasies | T Vijeyendra
15 July 2023T Vijayendra has just published a new book of short stories with a title, ‘Credible Fantasies’. The blurb reads:
‘The central idea of the fantasies presented here is to imagine a future for my young friends with ‘Green Jobs’, that is, jobs that help in restoring ecology and creating equity among humans. It is a very difficult proposition under the present circumstances and hence I refer to them as ‘fantasies’.
‘However, conditions are changing fast and soon it will be possible for (…) -
Rise of Hindutva Politics and Crisis of Congress Party: Search for an Alternative Politics | Badre Alam khan and Sanjay Kumar
5 August 2023, by Badre Alam KhanBOOK REVIEW
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Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)
by Zoya Hasan
Oxford University Press
23 August 2022 | 216 Pages
ISBN: 9780192863416
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The Grand Old Congress Party has for some time now been going through an existential crisis at the ideological and organizational level in current Indian politics. However, the Karnataka Election verdict (2023) has given a new lease of life to the Party. In (…) -
Spiritualty in Indian Freedom Struggle | M.R. Narayan Swamy
5 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Indian Ideas of Freedom: B.R. Ambedkar, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda
by Dennis Dalton
HarperCollins India Pages: xv + 519; Price: Rs 699
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Indian ideas of freedom dew deeply on indigenous traditions of thought, especially religious. But the men and women who led the long and arduous campaign for independence were no religious bigots. They incorporated Indic traditions in their focus on inner (…) -
Mughal Kings who Promoted Sanskrit, Hindu Epics | M.R. Narayan Swamy
12 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
by Audrey Truschke
Penguin Books Mar/2016 Pages: xiv + 362; Price: Rs 450 ISBN: 9780143428909
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It is not without reason that Emperor Akbar (who ruled from 1556 to 1605) was always described as Akbar the Great – till Hindutva ideologues decided that popular admiration for him should go and he must be seen as another Muslim king who Hindu-majority India would have probably preferred to do without. (…) -
Review of Electrifying Mexico by Diana J. Montaño | Jaclyn A. Sumner
12 August 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Jaclyn A. Sumner (Presbyterian College)
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Electrifying Mexico:
Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
by Diana J. Montaño
University of Texas Press 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 373 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8
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In Electrifying Mexico, Diana J. Montaño examines how government officials, engineers, citizens, and others worked to illuminate and power up Mexico City, the nation’s capital and emblem of progress. Montaño’s book is (…) -
Why Nature Turned Furious on Kedarnath Region? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
18 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
Konark ISBN: 9788195678693 Pages: 210; Price: Rs 495
__0__ Even as he entered the scenic Himalayan region of Kedarnath in June 2003, Asokan Krishnan felt disgusted on seeing the ugly all-round construction in brazen violation of the environment. There were plenty of multi-storey lodges and hotels built on the delicate (…) -
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 (…) -
An Irish legend Indians will always adore and respect | M R Narayan Swamy
25 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
HarperCollins India Pages: xii + 259; Price: Rs 399
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It was an Ashoka moment that transformed the legendary Edward James Corbett from a widely-admired hunter of man-eaters in the hills of Kumaon to an ardent conservationist, an avid photographer of wild animals and, finally, as a successful author that fetched him unprecedented international fame.
Jim, as he was popularly known, had once taken (…) -
Checkmating Communist China’s Rise and Rise | M.R. Narayan Swamy
9 September 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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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 (…)