Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts by Mayur R. Suresh (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
The long-routinized application of anti-terror laws in contemporary India belies the most accessible theorisation of them as being representative of…
The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India by Rahul Ranjan (2023): A Review by Chetna Kuanr
Rahul Ranjan’s book The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines the representation…
Caste Discrimination and Exclusion in Indian Universities: A Critical Reflection by N Sukumar (2023): A Review by Sonu Bagri
After Rohith Vemula’s suicide, Indian academia received enormous attention from scholars and policymakers, as a space not secluded but implicated…
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
‘Research is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’ (p.1). Linda Tuhiwai Smith, a leading decolonization theorist,…
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (2022): A Review by Dhriti Sonowal
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (published by…
A Book Discussion on Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development With Nikhil Menon
Nikhil Menon is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historian of modern…
Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 by Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury (2022): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury’s Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (published by…
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge by Reeju Ray (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright (2021): A Review by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
The secret behind oil as a commodity is labour, Andrea Wright reminds us. Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and…
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality by Sebanti Chatterjee (2023): A Review by Akash Jash
Sebanti Chatterjee’s captivating book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (published by Bloomsbury in 2023) takes readers on…