By Nandita Haksar
The stories of Manipur that this book tells are violent, cruel and infused with unadulterated savagery. The hate and rage in them is tangible and there is no way to make the stories any less brutal
Reviewed by: Malavika Menon
By Patrick Olivelle
Early Indian texts, especially those that are part of the vast corpus in Sanskrit, have acquired a sadly paradoxical status in recent years. On the one hand, many serious scholars tend to view them with suspicion, if not contempt.
Reviewed by: Kumkum Roy
By Razak Khan
Minority Pasts investigates local history and politics of Rampur, the last Muslim-ruled Princely State in colonial United Provinces, and studies with remarkable ease and competence aspects of political, economic, socio-cultural and affective history of Rampur and the Rampuris in the South Asian subcontinent across borders in the post-1857 period.
Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
Text edited and annotated by Jean Deloche. Translated by G.S. Cheema
It is usually overlooked while talking about India of the latter half of the eighteenth century that the Mughal court continued to have some political relevance till at least the turn of the century.
Reviewed by: Amar Farooqui
Edited by D. D. Nampoothiri, T. Y. Vinod Krishnan, Ashley Paul, Anoop Jayaprakash
This volume is a reflection upon the idea of a democratic, secular and inclusive India which KR Narayanan cherished. His rise as a Dalit boy from Travancore to India’s presidency embodied these values.
Reviewed by: Arvind Kumar
By Aakar Patel. Illustrations by PenPencilDraw
Divided into seven different sections that are modelled on a cookbook, Patel begins the first section by unpacking the nuts and bolts of the state, highlighting the remnants of the colonial past that continue to haunt the present. A major section of the book is about foregrounding the contradictions entailed in the Constitution and the actual workings in the everyday.
Reviewed by: Aman Nawaz