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• Review of Rashme Sehgal’s The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri | Enakshi Ganguly
  12 March 2021

  Reviewed by Enakshi Ganguly *
  The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri by Rashme Sehgal Mahanadi Books. 2020 [ Available via Amazon]
  Indians love visiting religious destinations. Pilgrims are invited to explore sacred places. The sacred temple of Swami Nityananda who died in 1961 is located in the small village of Ganeshpri around 80 kilometres north of Mumbai and has emerged as a hub for pilgrims from across the world.
  Each of these pilgrim centres has a vast tribe of service providers who (…)

• The formative years of a communist organiser | Joydip Ghosal
  9 March 2024

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  An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
  by Brinda Karat
  Leftword, January 2024
  (Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
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  Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in the (…)

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

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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 (…)

• Frens-String on Chastain and Lorek, ’Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America
  12 June 2021

  Reviewer: Joshua Frens-String
  Andra B. Chastain, Timothy Lorek, eds. Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 366 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-4596-3.
  What events and historical processes should be considered a part of Latin America’s Cold War experience? Who were the Latin American Cold War’s principal protagonists? How did a decades-long (…)