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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Material Measures, Immaterial Means

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 22, 2017Leave a comment

The study of material culture has evolved alongside the discipline of anthropology, though the field has taken an interdisciplinary turn only in the last two decades or so.

Maulana Azad, Islam and The Indian National Movement

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 22, 2017Leave a comment

The life and personality of Maulana Azad remains, to put this in a clichéd manner, an enigma. Aside from his deep scholarship,

Governing Rural Bengal in the Age of Reforms?

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 22, 2017Leave a comment

West Bengal, one of the major States in India’s East, an unfortunate by-product of the Partition of India in 1947 and the one which bore the brunt of the Partition by receiving millions of refugees from across the border, remained for a long time India’s most ungovernable State since Independence.

A Vanishing World Documented

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 22, 2017Leave a comment

Arunachal: Peoples, Arts and Adornments in India’s Eastern Himalayas by Peter van Ham is a strikingly beautiful book.

Meeting Point of Many Lives

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

This is a fairly slim book. It has only about 15 odd pages of text, and 60 photographs. Yet, it contains a lot to think about and see. In any case, if it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then this intriguing little volume contains more than 60,000 words worth of matter.

Homage to an Art Historian

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

This is a splendid volume that brings to- gether the recent approaches and researches around the theme of Indian Painting in honour of Professor B.N. Goswamy who continues to inspire and motivate potential scholars of art and history in various capacities and contexts.

In Search of Aesthetic Divinity

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

Any discussion of traditional art forms in India would not be complete or possible without stepping into the realms of the narrative painting tradition.

Music in Relation to its Times

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

To assess music as the purveyor of the spiritual is Antony Copley’s project in this compelling and erudite study.

A Maestro Idealized

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

The book in reference is a coffee table, well-illustrated memoir entitled The Master Through My Eyes.

A Riparian Saga

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

This episodic narrative meanders charm- ingly while the authors digress to regale us with myths and legends, with no particular historical perspective.

Philosophy in Modern India

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

In the early twentieth century, K.C. Bhattacharyya underlining the cultural enslavement of India proposed that it is in philosophy, if anywhere, that the soul of India could be discovered.

The Insurgent Spirit

Volume XXXVIII No. 6 - JUNE 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 21, 2017Leave a comment

On 15 August 1947, from the depths of his Ashram in Pondicherry Aurobindo sent a celebratory message across the airwaves to the free nation.

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