From Empire’s Labourers To Nation’s Outsiders – Jahidul Hassan
The question of belonging is not a very old concept; it was shaped with the British annexation of Assam with…
The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle by Rana Preet Gill (2025): A Review by Swati Rai
Curious about the literal meaning of the word ‘Ghadar,’ though fully aware that exact translation in another tongue would be an…
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 by Alastair McClure (2025): A Review by Ranjan Chatterjee
Alastair McClure’s Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922, published by Yoda…
Theorizing a Bengali Nation: Abul Hashim and the United Bengal Movement, 1937 – 1947 by Sucharita Sen (2024): A Review by Krishnayan Das
The decade leading up to partition and independence in 1947 was a tumultuous era. It witnessed the unseating of a…
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar (2017): A Review by Akanksha Rao
Jasbir K. Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (published by Duke University Press in 2017) is a timely…