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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Philip C. Brown (Editors)
Oregon State University Press
2023. x + 249 pp
(paper) ISBN 978-0-87071-237-1
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Reviewed by Jenia Mukherjee
What is water? Is it H2O or bottled profit
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Review of Breyfogle & Brown eds., Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History | Jenia Mukherjee
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Sreenivasan. Review of Guha, Sumit, History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000
16 September 2023Reviewed by Ramya Sreenivasan (University of Pennsylvania)
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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
University of Washington Press 2019. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74621-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74622-7
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This book of extraordinary scholarship traces how different human societies have developed their modes of narrating and comprehending aspects of the past over time. This is a book about how collective knowledge about the past was (…) -
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 (…) -
A Study of Women Farmers Under Kudumbashree Collective Farming in Kerala | Sudeshna Sengupta
17 June 2023BOOK REVIEW:
by Sudeshna Sengupta
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From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom by Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari
Aakar Books January 1, 2022
ISBN-10 : 9350027674 ISBN-13 : 978-9350027677
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The foreword rightly warns the reader that a wordy introduction will fall short of describing the rich content of the book. The book is indeed a rare one. It comes at a time when the country is grappling with intense agrarian crisis on the one hand and countrywide (…) -
Social justice warriors effecting the change | Joydip Ghosal
10 February 2023Review Joydip Ghosal *
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by Ashutosh Salil, Barkha Mathur
HarperCollins India (23 September 2022) Paperback : 176 pages ISBN-10 : 9356291985 ISBN-13 : 978-9356291980
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The only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all…..My countrymen are my nearest neighbours. They have become so helpless, so resourceless, so inert that I must concentrate myself on (…) -
Review of Iqbal S. Hasnain’s Fault Lines In The Faith | P S Jayaramu
1 June 2024[fond noir][fond blanc]BOOK REVIEWfond blanc]fond noir]
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Fault Lines In The Faith: How events of 1979 shaped the Islamic World
by Iqbal S. Hasnain
Rupa
2023 Pp 279, Price ₹395.
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Iqbal Syed Hasnain, the author of this book, is a former Pro-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard and former Vice Chancellor of Calicut University, besides the other assignments he handles. Hasnain has varied interests and the same can be discerned from his interests in Himalayan glaciers and climate (…) -
Field Notes - Distress and Violence in Rural Bengal | M.R. Narayan Swamy
27 May 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBook Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok
by Parimal Bhattacharya
HarperCollins India;
ISBN-10 : 9354894372 ISBN-13 : 978-9354894374
299 pages; Price: Rs 499
This is an extraordinary book, written with a passion about those who are not normally ignored and who, as the title reveals, live in far-flung areas where Bengal’s mostly upper-caste Hindu Bhadralok are normally absent. The book is a mirror to the (…) -
Indian Spiritual Masters who Fought Orthodoxy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
29 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamyreview by M.R. Narayan Swamy
India’s Greatest Minds: Spiritual Masters, Philosophers, Reformers
by Mukunda Rao
Hachette India Pages: 499 Price: Rs 699
Even hundreds of years after his death, the Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838-1918) remains one of the most widely revered and worshipped saints by millions of Hindus, Muslims and others. Born to Hindu parents and brought up by a fakir, the compassionate saint was a harsh critic of religious orthodoxy and detested the Hindu-Muslim divide. He (…) -
When America rained horror on Japan
30 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
by Iain MacGrego
Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
2025
ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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It was finally left to a crusading American journalist to puncture Washington -
Henschel. Review of Rosamund Johnston’s, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
28 September 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
by Rosamund Johnston
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Series
Stanford University Press
2024. 308 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3869-3
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Reviewed by Frank Henschel (Kiel University)
Communism on Air
Rosamund Johnston