Bhisma Sawhney

Bhisma Sawhney is known for his progressive views in literature and for stories and novels which provide pleasant reading material. His recent novel with the significant title Tamas (The Darkness) is primarily concerned with the human tragedy of communal frenzy, a social phenomenon that has always engulfed the society…


Reviewed by: B.P. Sinha
Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand is one of the pioneers of the modern Indo-Anglian novel. Since his first novels were written and published abroad he has added to his reputation as a humanist, as an art critic, as a committee man who has served in various capaci­ties and as one known to people who are worth being known to…


Reviewed by: Ka Naa Subramanyam
Tom Bottomore

Marxism has been described by one of its lead­ing contemporary critics as ‘equivocal and inexhaustible’. Generations of scholars, with varying degrees of seriousness and sympathy…


Reviewed by: Andre Beteille
Nafis Ahmad Siddiqui

The task of attempting a study on the population geography of Muslim Indians, assessing the present in the historical context, as Dr. Siddiqui has done, is a particularly hazardous task since India today has only about a third of the Muslims who inhabit the sub-continent. It should, however, have been possible…


Reviewed by: Deb Mukharji