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Economic Literature on South Asia

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

This compendium of essays edited by three distinguished Sri Lankan economists is a welcome addition to the economic literature on South Asia.

Love, Friendship and Sex: Knowing the Other

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

Of ‘Shared Subjectivities’

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

When one considers the fact that the autobiography or memoir as a literary form is predicated upon the sense of an individuated self that emerged with modernity, one must wonder, is ‘feminist memoir’ a contradiction in terms?

An Absent Presence: Tracing the Difference

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

Every author needs a defining moment to get started on the long, arduous path towards writing that next book.

Feminism, Family and the Law

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

Feminist politics and law share a rather troubled relationship, Flavia Agnes’s magisterial two volume account of a particularly difficult aspect of this relationship is going to be read and referred to by scholars and activists.

Designing an Escape Society

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

James Scott, in this provocative book, has attempted to write an account of those in the margins, of people living in the peripheries of the great river valley civilizations in history. In the process, he questions nearly every accepted theory and belief about ‘great civilizations’ and their ‘uncivilized’ neighbours.

Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

Escalating demands for the recognition or reordering of territories and people characterizes popular movements in several parts of South Asia today.

New Fields of Inquiry

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

The anthology under review is an important contribution to environmental history particularly because it focuses on early and early medieval India.

The Rasika and Scholar Combine

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

It is always interesting when a scholar of the arts becomes a con-noisseur, or the other way around. Scholars and academics have their world, and their methods.

Master Weavers to the World

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

The present artisan posterity in several parts of India still carry centuries-old tradition of decorative motifs, patterns and design ensemble. This book digs out dollops of incognito facts that depicts Indian textiles in the world fora as coveted merchandise.

‘Veins of Silver’

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

In a beautiful phrase deployed early in the book, Pinney writes of a retort that ‘leaps across the years like a vein of silver in a dark passageway (p.12).’ That phrase is a telling one, for it illuminates both the technique and the spirit of Pinney’s book.

A Historiographical Journey

Volume XXXVI No. 3 - MARCH 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 28, 2017Leave a comment

This collection of essays on changing perspectives in Indian art history is based on the proceedings of a seminar on ‘Historiography of Indian Art: Emergent Methodological Concerns,’ organized by the National Museum, Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi in 2006.

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