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• Review of Vijayan’s India vs. RSS – a book against majoritarian agenda | Joydip Ghosal
  20 April 2024

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  In the book India vs RSS by Pinarayi Vijayan asserts that the battle for democratic and secular India against totalitarian RSS is winnable. CPI (M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan is the chief minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Cooperatives from 1996 to 1998. He was born in Kannur which was the “ground zero of RSS terror.”
  The majoritarian ideology is steeped in hatred and parochialism. Vijayan in this book shows that (…)

• Review: Story of the Telangana Region - in the Republic of India | Sreerupa Saha
  5 March 2022

  Review by Sreerupa Saha*
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  The Fall and Rise of Telangana
  by Gautam Pingle
  Orient Black Swan, India
  2014
  pp xvii+ 326
  Paperback
  Rs. 395
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  The demand for separate statehood soaked in the spirit of subnationalism had a number of eruptive nodes in Indian federal polity, of which the demand for a separate Telangana state carved out from Andhra Pradesh remained active for the longest period in the history of independent India with a successful fulfillment of the (…)

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  12 October 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

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  India

• Review of Smith, Jessica M., Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
  25 March 2023

  Reviewed by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (University of Colorado Boulder)
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  Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
  by Jessica M. Smith
  Engineering Studies Series
  Cambridge: MIT Press
  2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54216-6; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36242-9 free (open access), ISBN 978-0-262-36615-1.
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  Published on H-Environment (February, 2023)
  Extracting Accountability is an account of how engineers in the mining (…)

• A Gripping Autopsy of Japan | M R Narayan Swamy
  3 September 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  __0__ ’Orienting: An Indian in Japan’ by Pallavi Aiyar
  HarperCollins India https://harpercollins.co.in/product/orienting/ 2021 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages ₹ 499.00 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354227643 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354227646
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  Life in Japan can be stranger than fiction.
  Indian journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar realized this during a four-year stay in Japan as she probed the inscrutable Japanese and their way of life, discovering in the process why people in the (…)

• Arcimovich on Ayers and Alves and Leal and Hjartarson, ’Globalizing the Avant-Garde’
  23 August 2025

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  Globalizing the Avant-Garde
  David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
  Walter de Gruyter
  2025. 499 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
  ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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  Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
  Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies series, (…)

• Sreenivasan. Review of Guha, Sumit, History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000
  16 September 2023

  Reviewed 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 (…)

• Review of Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Edited by Jaya Mehta | K.S. Chalam
  3 August 2024

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  Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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  Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had a (…)

• Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History
  13 September 2025

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  Abortion in Mexico: A History
  by Nora E. Jaffary
  University of Nebraska Press
  Series: Engendering Latin America
  2024, 163 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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  Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
  In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks to (…)

• Mapping India
  15 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Golden Road:
  How Ancient India Transformed the World
  by William Dalrymple
  Bloomsbury
  483; Price: Not given
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  When someone speaks about ancient India