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Daily Archives: October 11, 2017

‘Only a Trust in Our Hands’

Volume XXXIII No. 5 - MAY 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Twenty-two year old ‘Mr Knight, Merchant’ caught a glimpse of the Empire’s underbelly even as he stepped off the steamer that brought him to Bombay on 8 October, 1847.

The Last Emperor

Volume XXXIII No. 5 - MAY 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

The year 2007 was celebrated in India as the 150th anniversary of the Great Uprising of 1857 by the state and the community of Indian historians with much fanfare. Seminars were held all over the country to celebrate the event.

Empires of the Indus

Volume XXXIII No. 5 - MAY 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Alice Albinia’s book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River brings to life almost all major episodes in the long history of human settlements along the river Indus. The river rises on the northern slopes of Mt. Kailash in the Gangdise range of the Himalayas in the region of Tibet.

Debates over Chemical Sciences

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

The book, a narrative of the growth of chemical sciences during the colonial period, is authored by a trained analytical chemist whose work presents an insider’s view on the subject.

Writing Across Disciplines

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society, a new quarterly journal seeks, according to its editors, to provide a platform for ‘voices and concerns from developing societies’.

Lives in Shadows

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

The knowledge of the universe in the social sciences can be divided into two exclusive spheres—normative and creative. Both provide an understanding of the history, economy, culture and politics of existing societies.

Reframing Critical Coordinates

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Poetry, lest it should sublimate into a rarefied expression beyond the possibilities of participation, needs to be recovered from the excesses of soulful profundities. If the ‘novel’ de-escalates the epic imagination, poetry in its march in the domain of the secular, too peels off the sedimentations of sublimity.

Emduring Footprints

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Edna Fernandes, a British Indian journalist, has written about the Kerala Jews ‘charting their rise and fall, from their heyday to a decline in the twentieth century and the twenty-first century denouement’.

Behind Bars

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Fieldwork in a ‘total institution’ is perhaps among the most challenging sites for ethnographic exploration and Suvarna Cherukuri’s attempt to represent the lives of women in a prison in India, is commendable for taking up this challenge.

A Crime Like No Other

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

This collection of 17 articles (including the introduction) is a must read for feminists, law reformers, lawyers and judges. It compiles a range of perspectives on the social and juridical frameworks of rape in complex and yet accessible ways.

Empowering Women

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

This book is an outcome of a seminar on the National Policy for Empowerment of Women, organized by the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies and the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. It comprises twelve essays which are organized around four broad themes of women’s empowerment, women’s work, religion and health.

The ‘Other’ History

Volume XXXIII No. 4 - APRIL 2009By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

Wandana Sonalkar’s timely and elegant translation of Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon’s account of the Ambedkar movement and its key women activists, Amhihi Itihas Ghadavila—first published by Stree Uvac in Marathi in 1989—extends the frame of a masculinist dalit history which is typically narrated as ‘history before and after Ambedkar’.

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