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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Formulating the Central Problem of Identity

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Absolute unity will also mean a self-cancellation of love for it needs an other for it to live (p. 248)
Developing an idea of self-division for self-expansion in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Pradip Kumar Datta sums up in this tantalizing and aphoristic formulation, the central problematic of identity.

Local/Regional/Global Resonances

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

If it takes breadth of imagination and a grasp of geography to grapple with the enormity of the scale and consequences of the British Empire, the authors of The British Empire and the Natural World do it for their readers in one extended 91-word sentence.

Of Cataclysmis Times

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Anis Kidwai belonged to the illustrious Kidwai family of Barabanki family that has made more than a signal contribution to the making of India, not only in politics and governance but in diverse fields of creative endeavour.

An Eye-Witness Account

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

It is always interesting to read a real story, the real story—and this is one that is about the Mutiny/ the First War of Independence/ the Great Uprising of 1857. But what earns the right to be called the real story, the truth? The answer now is that the truth is what is perceived by ordinary people, what they experience and record for us.

A Corpus of Historiography

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Mushirul Hasan is one of the most prolific historians specializing in the study of ‘modern Indian history’. His corpus of work is vast and consists of several monographs.

Historical Research: New Dimensions

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

The study of an ideologized and activist organiation like the Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam(MAI) is actually a journey through several inter-related domains including political Islam, South Asian Muslim identity politics,

An Atlas of Hunger

Volume V No. 4 - JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1981By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

There is a great diversity in the in­equality of social, cultural, political, demographic and economic facets of the vast structure of Indian society. Mani­festations of many of the various indivi­ous modes of inequality, innate in this society, often make us appear to be a queerly ‘hierarchical breed’ of people.

Textures of Legislative Formulations

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Nancy Gardner Cassels’s book as the title suggests is a scholarly account of a range of East India Company legislation across various fields, from Sati to Emigrant labour, and from Meriah Sacrifice to the Pilgrim tax.

Zamindars, Jotedars and Peasants in Bengal

Volume V No. 4 - JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1981By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Colonial land management forms as such did not usher in a new mode of production or fundamental changes in India’s Socio-economic structures. Nor was our differentiated peasant society solely a colonial phenomenon.

Overdoing Transcreation

Volume V No. 3 - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Translation, like criticism, must be perpetually re-undertaken. Art, prover­bially, is long, so that translation, in so far as it is an art, should also be timeless, persistently reappearing as an inevitable response to stimuli felt by succeeding generations.

India’s Philosopher-King

Volume XXXV No. 8-9 - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

This volume of Nehru’s selected works, edited by Aditya and Mridula Mukherjee covers the period of three months from April to June 1958. Like earlier volumes, it gives us a flavour of the times.

Strength and Weakness

Volume V No. 3 - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

The literature available on Munshi Premchand, regarded as the father of the modern Hindi novel, is scanty. Hansraj Rahbar’s book on Premchand (1958) is extensive thematically but marred by chronological inaccuracies.

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