Feminist Frames: Gender, Space and Violence in India by Mallarika Sinha Roy (2025): A Review by Priyanka Tripathi
“The geopolitical entity of South Asia is constituted by the radical diversity and the tenacity as well as the fragility…
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…
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India by Tanweer Fazal (2024): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In his book Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India (published by Three Essays Collective in 2024),…
Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 by Meena Menon (2024): A Review by Manisha Sobhrajani
Meena Menon, in her book Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 (published by Yoda…
The Illegitimate Child of the Motherland – Shahin Afrin
“Where are you from?” “My Abba’s village is from Jonia in Barpeta district.” “Oh! My village is Goroimari (near Jonia);…
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (2024): A Review by Javaria Farooqui
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (published by Cambridge University Press)…
Horses, Caste, and Grooms in Northern India – Vaishali Khandekar
No Horse for Dalit Grooms A new pattern of violence has emerged where Dalit men have been attacked for riding…
The Gravity of Hope by Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (2023): A Review by Shabeeh Rahat
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay’s The Gravity of Hope (published by Crossed Arrows in 2023)is an ethnographic account of domestic abuse and domestic…
Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) by Veena Das (2022): A Review by Chakraverti Mahajan
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Sabeeha Shaheen
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy…