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• Sarah Foss. Review of Nolan, Rachel, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
  24 August 2024

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  Rachel Nolan. Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024. 309 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-27035-0.
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  Reviewed by Sarah Foss (Oklahoma State University)
  Every so often, we hear a statistic that seems improbable at best, unfathomable, even, given the reality we think we know. Such a moment occurs in the opening pages of Rachel Nolan’s book, Until I Find (…)

• Review of Sohal’s The Muslim Secular | Raheel Bashir & Aamir Jamal Khan
  15 February 2025

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  The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India

• 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 (…)

• Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
  12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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  Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State repression (…)

• Lotz on John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
  26 March 2021

  John Bellamy Foster The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
  Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 687 pp., £30 hb ISBN 9781583678367
  Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
  [Corinna Lotz’ book Finding Evald Ilyenkov – How a Soviet Philosopher who stood up for dialectics continues to inspire, was published by Real Democracy Movement in April 2019. She co-ordinates International Friends of Ilyenkov. Info@realdemocracymovement.org]
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  For too long it has been a cliché that a class-based (…)

• Review of Brunstedt, Jonathan, The Soviet Myth of World War II
  29 March 2025

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  The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
  by Jonathan Brunstedt
  Cambridge University Press
  Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series
  2021, 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-49875-3
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  Reviewed by Christopher Bishop (University of Southern Mississippi)
  In May 1945, Joseph Stalin raised a toast to the

• 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

• Oppenheim on Lee, Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
  5 November 2021

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  by Robert Oppenheim (University of Texas at Austin)
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  Pop Empires:
  Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
  by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta, Robert Ji-Song Ku, eds.
  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
  2019. 360 pp.
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  The popularity and transnational reach of Indian popular media, most centrally Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas, have been subject to a great deal of academic attention. Somewhat more recently, (…)

• Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma
  2 June 2023

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  Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
  Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9382381937 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9382381938 __0__
  Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…)

• Will there ever be peace in Gaza? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  24 May 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Gaza: A History
  by Jean-Pierre Filiu
  (Translated by John King)
  Pan MacMillan India
  Pages: xix + 563; Price: Not mentioned
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  It is difficult to imagine a more impoverished strip of land which lies at the heart of one of the most enduring and seemingly most intractable of historical disputes. Also called a dense open-air prison, Gaza is where peace will have to come first if the dragging Israeli-Palestinian row needs to (…)