Caste: The Lies that Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson (2020): A Review by Krishan Kumar
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Potters Without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritishilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya: A Review by Vanshika Yadav
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Animal Farm Revisited: A Re-examination of George Orwell’s Classic – Aarya Dubey
Right at the start of Animal Farm, George Orwell establishes that it is a fable in which animals exhibit human-like…
Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh (2022): A Review by Snigdha Vishnoi
Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical…
African Clusters in India by Koyal Verma (2023): A Review by Sara Bardhan
In the last few decades, migration and globalisation have become the foci of extensive investigation across disciplines, including in urban…
Rural Labour in a Caste Polity: Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again by Jan Breman (2023): A Review by Madhuri Xalxo
Jan Breman’s book Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India,…
The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change
A Discussion on The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change With Raewyn Connell…
The Right To Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi by Sanjeev Routray (2022): A Review by Sreya Sen
Sanjeev Routray’s book The Right To Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi published by…
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India by Roluahpuia (2023): A Review by Niharika Saikia
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India by Roluahpuia (published by Cambridge University…
Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography edited by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (2020): A Review by Chinggelniang
Globalizing Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography edited by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (and published by Routledge in 2020)…