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• Review of Prabhakar’s The Crooked Timber of New India | Joydip Ghosal
  16 September 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  The Crooked Timber of New India Essays on a Republic in Crisis
  by Parakala Prabhakar
  Speaking Tiger Books
  2023
  ISBN: 9789354474132 __0__
  An insightful commentary on ‘New India’
  The fascinating and searing commentary titled The Crooked timber Of New India, Essays on a Republic in Crisis by Parakala Prabhakar is an honest attempt to speak truth to powers that be. This book published by speaking Tiger is compilation of essays written over a period of three years from (…)

• A British View of Colonial India | M R Narayan Swamy
  30 July 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
  by Roderick Matthews
  HarperCollins India
  20 June 2021
  Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354227325 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354227325
  Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews https://www.amazon.in/dp/9354227325/
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  If freelance writer Roderick Matthews is to be believed, Indians complain too much about British (mis)rule of the sprawling (…)

• Book Review: Kramer on Woodhouse, ’The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism’
  8 November 2020

  Keith Makoto Woodhouse. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 392 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16588-4
  Reviewed by Anna Kramer (University of Colorado)
  (August, 2020)
  One of our central tasks as historians is to take our subjects seriously, and Keith Makoto Woodhouse does just that in The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, successfully wrestling with the ideas and methods of radical environmentalists (…)

• Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75
  22 February 2025

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  Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
  by Aya Fujiwara, David R. Marples, eds.
  ibidem Verlag, 2020. 307 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1398-9
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  Reviewed by Jonathan Runnels (Air University, Air War College)
  In 2020, Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples published Hiroshima-75, an edited collection commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of dropping the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The aftermath (…)

• Reconciling Gandhi and Savarkar: The Paranjape Way | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Biographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.
  And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new (…)

• Dissecting What Destroyed Prabhakaran, LTTE | Sivadas Sankar
  26 January 2025

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  The Rout of Prabhakaran
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Konark
  Pages: xvii + 142; Price Rs 895
  (Also includes Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World

• Clevenger’s Review of Levett, G, ed., Sport in History Podcast
  5 March 2022

  Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
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  British Society of Sports History, 2020-21
  by Geoff Levett, ed.
  Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast __0__ Published on H-Podcast (February, 2022)
  Since 2020, the British Society for Sports History (BSSH), self-described as the United Kingdom’s “leading scholarly society for the history of sport,” has produced a podcast titled Sport in History Podcast. As of this (…)

• Henk-Jan Dekker. Review of Romero Sommer, Gonzalo, High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  15 February

  BOOK REVIEW
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  High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  by Gonzalo Romero Sommer
  University of Nebraska Press
  2025. 298 pp
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.
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  Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)
  It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of (…)

• Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu
  19 March, by P S Jayaramu

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  Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
  by S. S. Patagundi
  Rawat Publications
  2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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  This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by the (…)

• China’s Challenge to America | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  13 May 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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  Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
  by Kishore Mahbubani
  PublicAffairs, New York Pages: 312; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541768132 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541768130
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  Is China’s tremendous economic growth a threat to the United States? Is Beijing trying to dethrone Washington as the world’s numero uno? Is the Communist Party of China trying to destabilize American and Western values? Will China’s aggressive onward (…)