By Ziya Us Salam
The very first sentence of the ‘Preface’ in the book under review is crafted to grab readers by the scruff of their necks—‘To be a Muslim is to be an orphan’—and then keep them glued to each page.
Reviewed by: Asma Rasheed
By Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas
There are several books and articles that have been published on the state of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, the role of Hindus in the 1971 liberation war and the Vested Property Act that disposed off their property. While the status of minorities in Pakistan is accepted as fait accompli in India
Reviewed by: Smruti S Pattanaik
By Pallavi Chakravarty
Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947-1971 by Pallavi Chakravarty provides a critical analysis of the Indian state’s post-Partition programmes for rehabilitating refugees.
Reviewed by: Mohammad Imtiyaz
By Rina Agarwala
‘Migration-Development Regimes’ (MDR) and painstakingly traces the history of emigration in India. She thus reframes the emigration practices of sending states as a regime to help capture the sending state’s ‘ideological, economic
Reviewed by: Uma Purushothaman
By Susan L. Ostermann
However, human beings differ in their interpretation of laws and that becomes a reason for conflict within government circles and in the society, and non-compliance by those whose interests are not tantamount with them. The other point made by the author is that there are certain bureaucrats or judges who have the legal knowledge and ensure their enforcement.
Reviewed by: Siddhartha Mukerji
By Krishna Hachhethu
That conjunctive moment galvanized a spontaneous popular people’s uprising, Jana Andolan II (April 2006) which gave the democratic imprimatur to the demand for a systemic overhaul of the old unequal power structure. The Maoists fused class ideology with identity politics which tapped into the discontent of the institutionally excluded.
Reviewed by: Rita Manchanda