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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

An Undying City

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The elegant photograph on the cover of this book shows Bhujiyo Hill, as distinctive a signature of Bhuj as Mont Sainte-Victoire is of Aix- en-Provence, reflected in the waters of the Hamirsar, with a solitary boat rowing towards the city.

Locating and Spatializing Science

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

In recent years, the emergent discipline of science and technology studies has witnessed a growing interest in questions of location and mapping. The concern has been so pressing that it would not be an exaggeration to believe that the postcolonial moment has vitally entered this field, reminiscent of a similar ingress upon literary studies in the recent past.

Pathway to Knowledge

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Margrit Pernau in her Preface hints that The Delhi College is a dedication volume for Dr. Yunus Jaffery, his vast knowledge, humility and hospitality, and I, would not hesitate to agree with her even for a moment.

History of a Revolt

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

In the 150th anniversary year of the great revolt of 1857, William Dalrymple has stolen a march over professional historians (that is, historians who also happen to be academics, for, Dalrymple is in his own way a professional historian having been engaged for long in researching and writing on historical themes), by producing a major new study of the event.

Ethnographies of Childhood

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Every once in a while human life expresses itself in ways that funda-mentally transforms prevalent images of what it means to be human in any given society. The vulnerability to and dependence of young children on adults often leaves them incapable of avoiding or resisting exploitation, abuse and even death.

Children’s Right to Education

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

This omnibus edition brought out by Oxford University Press is a timely compilation of important landmarks in the child labour and education debate in India.

Brute Luck, Option Luck or Politics?

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The world has never before been as rich as it is today. Yet substantial populations of the world are bereft of resources to ensure a modicum of health. Nearly 1.3 billion people, overwhelmingly in the formerly colonized countries of the South,

Cross Country Growth Experiences

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

What are the factors that make some countries grow faster than others? Economists have forever been perplexed by this question and have sought answers by looking for empirical regularities in cross-country growth experiences.

Evolution of a Programme

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Northern Pakistan, comprising its Northern Areas and Chitral (NAC) is one of the most rugged and mountainous regions of Central Asia. This region is located among four of the highest mountain ranges in the world, including the Himalayas, Karakorum, Pamir and Hidukush ranges.

Reconfiguring Gendering Relations

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The title captures the scope of the book. Placed in the context of claims and counter-claims about the ability of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reconfigure gendering relations in favour of women, the book brings in empirical and theoretical material to this debate.

Love, Dreams and Revolution

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Debates resonating in the last century on the dire impact of maldevelopment on the poor and on women in the Third World have spilled over into this century with consequences that cannot be measured by the word tragic.

A Dialogue of Ideas

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Reading a collection of essays written as discrete pieces over a long period of time is a curious exercise in freedom. I’d imagine it would enable the author to break free of ‘writing time’—from the chronology of her own labour process- and engage with her own work as a dialogue of ideas that may not have surfaced all at once.

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