S.N. Dubey and Ratna Murdia
The authors have tried to analyse the basic constraints in implementation of programmes designed for the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the deprived sections of our population.
Reviewed by: R.V. Gupta
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
Robert LaPorte Jr.
The democratic process has frail roots in Pakistan and the system seems destined to preserve inherited privilege.
Reviewed by: P.R. Chari
Howard Spodek
Howard Spodek is an old Gujarat hand, having written authoritative books on the modern history of Saurashtra, including Rulers, Merchants and Other Groups in the City-States of Saurashtra: India, Around 1800 (Philadelphia: Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, 1974/77).
Reviewed by: Nikita Sud
Raminder Kaur
Raminder Kaur’s book primarily traces the history of nuclear power in India from 1945 which was marked by the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki until 2008 when India signed a treaty with the United States for increased nuclear cooperation.
Reviewed by: Smeeta Mishra