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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Analysing Theoretical Models

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This is a high impact low fuss book. Within its covers the authors provide a remarkably comprehensive and lucidly written survey of the three geographical zones where armed conflicts are currently taking place within IndiaJ&K,

Identity Problem or Power Play

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Islam was the first pillar on which Pakistan was built and its leaders’ search for a new identity was the other virulent non-Indian non-Hindu pillar. While both were understand-able from Pakistan’s perspective, Jinnah’s version of a moderate Pakistan began to change soon enough.

The PalestineIsrael Question: Going Back to the Roots

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The perennial question which arises in the mind of anyone even generally familiar with the PalestineIsraeli issue is the reason a solution has bedevilled the many attempts during the 65 years since the Second World War.

Voice of Archival Absence

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The relationship between sexuality and empire in the context of South Asia is one that has received much, and muchneeded, scholarly attention in recent years. Since one kind of archive or another is used by scholars and activists in the field of sexuality studies to form and/or legitimize their case,

Making of Modern India: Linking Strands of Development

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The period 17071857 is one of the most fascinating in the history of India. It in effect laid the foundation for colonial modernity and had a profound impact on the making of modern India. As such,

Nuancing Historical Analyses

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This anthology brings together 14 invaluable essays by Harbans Mukhia which had earlier been published in different journals and collected works. Some of these essays date back to the 1970s but there are many others more recent ones and some are still in press.

Development: Polemic and Perspectives

Volume V No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

THIS is a book about the immediate past and the distant future of mankind. It looks at the recent development ex­perience of the world, particularly Taiwan and South Korea, and goes on to make predictions and give advice. But that is not all, for this is a book of disconcert­ing diversity.

‘Deepening’ Democracy: Beyond Institutional Parameters

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The volume under review is geared towards describing and analysing the practical implications and policy imperatives of deepening democracy beyond its institutional parameters and the role of civil society interventions in creating a culture of democratic engagement, accountability, and transparency (p. 3).

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Volume V No. 1 - JULY/AUGUST 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

The versatile personality of the author finds reflection in this little ‘bunch called BOOK’—as the author himself calls it. Whether it is sangeet or social work or social justice, costs or crimes or com­munalism, or corporate sector, religions and revolution—the author has some­thing to say, some thought to exchange with others.

Predicaments of an Indian Moses

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This is an important volume of Nehrus selected works and deals with the initial months of the year 1958. There are two major themes that pervade the entire volume.

From Dahomey, With Love

Volume V No. 1 - JULY/AUGUST 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

One of Freud’s distinctive departures from the psychiatric tradition of his time was to consider himself solely as the patient’s agent and thus to repudiate any obligations to the patient’s family and society.

Nepal’s Mini Revolution

Volume V No. 1 - JULY/AUGUST 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

‘Nepal is an area on the political evolu­tion of which not enough is known as yet,’ says the author; and to meet this gaping need he sets out to make his own contribution. What sort of treatment he renders to the subject is indicated in the title itself —Nepal: Year of Decision.

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