The Birth of a New Knowledge System – Ritwik Rathod
Methodological questions about knowledge construction saw shifts in a colonially mediated modern India. Questions about an Indian way of thinking…
Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality edited by Lata Singh and Shashank Sekhar Sinha (2024): A Review by Atreyee Sengupta
Spanning across colonial and postcolonial timelines, various academic disciplines, and several regions in India, Gender in Modern India: History, Culture,…
When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 by Purnima Dhavan (2011): A Review by Navpreet Kaur
Purnima Dhavan’s book When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 (published by Oxford University Press)…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian (2023): A Review by Alfisha Sabri
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
The Role of the Individual in History – Harshith Subramaniam
Throughout the annals of human existence, the question of the individual’s role in shaping history has been a subject of…
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (2023): A Review by Vinky Mittal
Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories, published by Fourth Estate India in 2023, has…
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P. Sainath (2022): A Review by Krithika Narayanswamy
Introduction: P Sainath is a veteran journalist with more than forty years of experience. A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, he…
The Memory Police, Question of History and the Political Economy of Religion – Sana Shah
The memory police, a novel by Yoko Ogawa, very recently translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder to English, weaves the…