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• A poignant docu-memoir on the Sikhs of Kashmir | Joydip Ghosal
  2 November 2024

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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali
  Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd 2024, 308 pages ISBN-10 ? : ? 9355436297 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-9355436290
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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali is a poignant narrative on the Sikhs of Kashmir. In this deeply personal saga, he interweaved their past, present and future which stared at deep abyss of uncertainty. In mainstream media and (…)

• Review of Puia’s Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India | P Kham Sian Muan Zou
  9 November 2024

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  Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India
  by Roluah Puia
  Cambridge University Press
  2023
  ISBN: 9781009346078
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  Reviewed by P Kham Sian Muan Zou
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• A Haunting portrait of forgotten Agariyas of Kutch: A Review of Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt" | Bhavna Harchandani
  9 November 2024

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  A touch of salt
  By Anita Agnihotri
  Translated by Arunava Sinha
  Penguin Books
  2024 / 180 pages
  ISBN 9780143465812
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  Reviewed by Bhavna Harchandani
  Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt", masterfully translated by Arunava Singh, is a poignant and evocative novel that sheds light on the overlooked lives of salt cultivators in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The eleven-chapter book critically examines the (…)

• Johanne Marais’s Review of Chirimuuta, M., The Brain Abstracted
  23 November 2024

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  The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
  by M. Chirimuuta
  MIT Press
  March 5, 2024, 376 pp.
  Paperback ISBN: 9780262548045
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  Reviewed by Johann

• Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind
  29 November 2024

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  The Marcusean Mind
  Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson
  Routledge, London
  2025. 602 pp.
  ISBN 9781032462998
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  Reviewed by Charles Reitz
  We are living in world-historical, conflict-ridden times. Many of us have spent our whole professional lives as teachers in the multicultural education reform movement. We have worked with excellent colleagues, but we have faced strong (…)

• Bhavuk’s Review of Nehru’s India by Aditya Mukherjee
  7 December 2024

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  Nehru’s India: Past, Present and Future
  by Aditya Mukherjee
  Vintage Books
  Penguin (25 November 2024)
  Hardcover: 208 pages
  ISBN-10 : 0143471953
  ISBN-13 : 978-0143471950
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  Reviewed by Bhavuk
  An Appraisal of Nehru In Our Times
  Seeing the 14th of November pass uneventfully, one felt dejected that Nehru was not being discussed at such a crucial time for Indian democracy. Aditya Mukherjee’s book Nehru’s India: (…)

• Review of Breyfogle & Brown eds., Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History | Jenia Mukherjee
  7 December 2024

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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

• 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

• Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar
  12 January 2025

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  Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
  by Nandini Bhattacharya
  McGill-Queen’s University Press
  Intoxicating Histories Series
  2023. xii + 257 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0
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  Reviewed by Asmita Sarkar (University of Oxford)
  In Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Nandini Bhattacharya investigates the historical roots of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in India. Bhattacharya

• Review of Intondi’s, Saving the World from Nuclear War | Eric Ross
  4 January 2025

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  Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
  by Vincent J. Intondi
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series
  2023. 152 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4640-0
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  Reviewed by Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the (…)