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April 2021 Issue

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VOLUME XLV NUMBER 4 APRIL 2021

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Gandhi’s Tryst with Modernity

Chandrika Kaul’s brief introductory remarks to the edited volume of essays, titled <em>M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society,</em> begins with a rhetorical flourish. Gandhi, she remarks, ‘both made the news and was the news.’ His preoccupation with media...

April 5, 2021
How a Farman Gave an Inch and Lost a Mile

The volume under review is a reprint of the book with the same name written by Brijen K Gupta. While the Orient BlackSwan in association with Ashoka University has published the reprinted version in 2020, EJ Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, had published the original work in 1966...

April 5, 2021
Lending Centrality to the Humble ‘Coolie’

This quote from an army recruitment propaganda pamphlet around World War I exemplifies the ethos of the average Indian sepoy. For him cultivation and soldiering were honourable professions and he was careful to distinguish himself from the menial followers in the army...

April 5, 2021
Of ‘Vanished’ Glory

At the time of Independence India and Pakistan had to urgently deal with, among numerous other problems, the problem of incorporating those Princely States which were contiguous with and adjacent to their respective territories. The British had quite cynically...

April 5, 2021
Beyond Conversions

As religious conversions come to be criminalized across India and alleged to be a threat to the ‘integrity’ of the nation-state, this edited volume is an important and timely contribution, enriching the existing scholarship on conversions as well as unsettling...

April 5, 2021
Evolution of Heritage Conservation in India

The ownership and manner of use of built heritage brings out intense emotion among people. This is true whether the heritage belongs to society at large or even when it is owned by private parties as evocatively shown in the popular film, Gulabo Sitabo. Meha Mathur’s maiden book...

April 5, 2021
Sampling Bombay’s Palimpsestic Pasts

Bombay/Mumbai will continue to fascinate historians, sociologists, artists, writers, filmmakers and poets for years to come.  For there remains so much more to document, as is evident from the most recent addition to the collections of books on the city...

April 5, 2021
Toward an Inclusive Society

unrecognizable and the future uncertain. Fear and restrictions are its primary currencies, and far from the garbled promise of stability, it is inducing greater instability in the lives of the people. Mamdani answers his question by tracing the history of nationalism as a principle to organize the political association that is the state...

April 5, 2021
Looking at History Through Different Lenses

In the last few years, many academic books have been published on the Emergency in India. One of the first comprehensive academic interventions was Bipan Chandra (2003), <em>In the Name of Democracy</em>. The British sociologist, David Lockwood (1929-2014)...

April 5, 2021
And Where Do We Go From Here?

Samuel P Huntington in his seminal text, <em>The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century</em> suggests three waves of democratization, indicating the third wave as neoteric as in 1989-1991. But the rise of contemporary Right-Wing populism puts a big question...

April 6, 2021
Reclaiming Plural India

Shaheen Bagh protests began on 15 December 2019, three days after the passage of the Citizenship...

April 5, 2021
Understanding Post-Accord Politics of Assam

The tripartite Assam Accord signed between the Indian government, the State Government of Assam and the All Assam Students Union (AASU) in 1985 marks a watershed moment in Assam’s socio-political history. The Accord ushered in a new era of competitive politics...

April 5, 2021
Agency Exercised by the Marginalized

In rapidly urbanizing India the book <em>Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums</em> by Adam Auerbach is an important contribution to the existing corpus of political economy literature engaging with the themes related to development in urban India...

April 5, 2021
Narrative of a Constitutionalist President

The book under review is an account by the late Pranab Mukherjee about his tenure as the President of India (2012-2017). This period was critical because as President, Mukherjee witnessed two governments of the ideologically opposing alliances...

April 5, 2021
A Ringside View

The tradition of writing memoirs by civil servants has been handed down by the colonial administrators to their successors in the bureaucracy of independent India.  Sardar Jarnail Singh too has penned a memoir of the fateful eight years of his life in the Prime Minister’s...

April 5, 2021
The Pimp

Since the time he attained consciousness, he found himself in the company...

April 6, 2021
Situating the Novel in Socio-Cultural Contexts

Reading Professor A N Kaul’s <em>The Domain of the Novel</em> I am reminded, as Professor Sambuddha Sen points out in his own brilliant introduction, of the acuity of Professor Kaul’s mind, the depth and breadth of his interpretations of a wide variety of texts and their contexts...

April 6, 2021
Carving out Centralities

The quote above was a part of Barbara Kruger’s untitled work (a Photostat print) created in 1987 that depicts a woman’s fingers holding a light bulb and these words are inscribed on the artwork. The first line is in bold and clearly visible while the second line remains less conspicuous. With Exquisite Cadavers...

April 6, 2021
Leaving an Imprint

Out of Print: Ten Years: An Anthology of Stories is an interesting collection to say the least. A compendium of stories that have earlier been published online via the website of the same name—‘Out of Print’—it is perhaps ironic that these stories do ultimately find themselves in print. Nonetheless...

April 6, 2021
‘Will the Real Goddesses Rise, Please?’

The Kali Project </em>is a unique effort that curates poetry by Indian women from different parts of the world. Wide socio-economic disparities and violence against women, in forms both manifest and oblique, led to the need for a collective effort to resist insidious structures...

April 6, 2021
Muted Heard Cry for Identity

It is now usual to think about the Vietnam conflict of the mid-20th century...

April 6, 2021
A Tabula Rasa

JNU Stories: The First 50 years is an anthology of anecdotal essays and a few poetical pieces. These essays, suffused and soaked with nostalgia, map the institutional and intellectual journey and are haunted by an ‘anxiety about preserving an institutional memory’ (p. 44). This passionate...

April 6, 2021
A Vision of Education as a Key to Nation-building

Reading the history of one’s old school is always interesting, sometimes even challenging. Rakesh Batabyal’s book on Modern School is certainly both. Situating the founding of the school in the context of the Indian Independence movement’s initiatives to build free...

April 6, 2021
Announcements
The Book Review Literary Trust is pleased to announce the winning entries for the Short Story Competition 2019:
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.

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