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Why is Pakistan the Way it is?

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 20, 2017Leave a comment

If and when foreign observers of Pakistan want to discover more about how the country behaves as it does, they can get some answers from two books published in 2013:

An Exercise in Moral Philosophy

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 20, 2017Leave a comment

One of the first writers, if not the first, to compare the condition of Muslims in India and Jews in Europe was a British Professor at Aligarh, Theodore Morison, who happened to be the son-in-law of the first Jewish graduate of Oxford University.

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 20, 2017Leave a comment

Two admissions need initially to be made.

How Bangladesh Happened

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 20, 2017Leave a comment

How does anything happen? The question seems simple enough, but its answer, once you have side-stepped the philosophical minefield of whether causes exist at all, can take you into diverse intellectual domains:

Linking Epochal Events

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

The Partition of British India in 1947 into the new nations of India and Pakistan, and the transformation of East Pakistan into the Republic of Bangladesh, in 1971, were events characterized by violence, displacement, and multiple alienations.

Celebrating Indian Democracy

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

The books under review are two additions to the long and distinguished line of books that have puzzled over the improbable success of democracy in India.

Nuclear Arsenals Today

Volume XXXVIII No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

The main argument of this comprehensive volume of nuclear weapon activity in Asia is that it is only here that there is the fear of renewed and widespread nuclear proliferation.

For the Sophisticated Tastebud

Volume XXXVIII No. 1 - JANUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

India is perhaps the best place to be a vegetarian. Unless you want one, your options while dining in or out are never restricted to a bowl of steamed vegetables.

A Statement About Life

Volume XXXVIII No. 1 - JANUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

The poetry of this collection of poems is the poetry of the glide. It is poetry that results from the choreographed re-focussings of the main thought into the body of the poem.

Interdisciplinary Engagements

Volume XXXVIII No. 1 - JANUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

An active engagement with disability in India only began in the mid-nineties. Some of the defining works on gender and disability in India were Anita Ghai’s (Dis)Embodied Form:

Towards a Life of Dignity

Volume XXXVIII No. 1 - JANUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

In recent times, legal engagements with disability have increased considerably following India signing and becoming signatory to the United Nations Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007.

Complexities of Marginalized Labour

Volume XXXVIII No. 1 - JANUARY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaMay 19, 2017Leave a comment

Jan Breman’s scholarship on the rural economy in the Indian subcontinent has remained one of the most significant contributions on the literature in the past several decades.

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