Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika Iyengar (2023): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Radhika Iyengar’s Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras (published by Fourth Estate India) in 2023describes the…
Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes by Anindita Datta (2021): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Gender, Space, and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes (published by Routledge in 2021) by Anindita Dutta is a collection…
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah (2020): A Review by Unmilan Kalita
Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast (published by Stanford University Press in 2020) compliments…
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures Across the Indian Ocean by Sayan Dey (2023): A Review by Devanjan Khuntia
Sayan Dey compels the reader to extend its ‘obvious’ academic understanding of sociological terms such as diaspora, migration, culture and…
Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India by Shailja Tandon (2023): A Review by Nupur Pattanaik
In Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023), Shalija Tandon examines the question of how…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
The Final Farewell: Understanding the Last Rites and Rituals of India’s Major Faiths by Minakshi Dewan (2023): A Review by Chittajit Mitra
Death is possibly the only confirmed event that comes with life, but even then in many cases, it is introduced…
Turkish-Islamic Synthesis: With the Eyes of Friend and Foe by Ahmet Yılmaz Boyunağa (1970): A Review by Uğur Berk Kalelioğlu
A book that was lost on the dusty shelves of Ankara’s old bibliopoles reached into my hands by chance while…
Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power edited by Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana (2023): A Review by Harmanpreet Kaur
We live in times of increasing censorship in media and of free speech. Where Munawar Faruqui, a stand-up comedian gets…
Indigenous Peoples and Borders edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou (2023): A Review by Tania Sen
Indigenous Peoples and Borders, edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou and published by Duke University Press in 2023, is…