Jasbir Jain
Every author needs a defining moment to get started on the long, arduous path towards writing that next book…
Reviewed by: Lakshmi Kannan
Flavia Agnes
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. This of course would be a very useful book…
Reviewed by: Krishna Menon
James C. Scott
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…
Reviewed by: Richa Kumar
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Gerard Toffin
Escalating demands for the recognition or reordering of territories and people characterizes popular movements in several parts of South Asia today…
Reviewed by: Chetan Singh
Nandini Sinha Kapur
The anthology under review is an important contribution to environmental history particularly because it focuses on early and early medieval India. It is true that in the rapidly growing discourse on environmental history, the precolonial period has been relegated to the periphery…
Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
T.K. Venkatasubramanian
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. Their understanding and appreciation of their subject derives from their study of the records…
Reviewed by: Keshav Desiraju