Meena Menon
Last year marked twenty years of the demolition of Babri Masjid, followed by a series of large-scale communal violence, clashes and riots in different parts of India, especially in the Bombay then and now Mumbai.
Reviewed by: Mahtab Alam
Navroz K. Dubash
Climate change as a political issue has usually been on the backburner in India, coming forth for intense public discussion only around the time when Indian representatives are off to attend yet another round of negotiations.
Reviewed by: Sucharita Sengupta
Ashok Rudra
Professor Rudra’s book, meant more for postgraduate students than for the layman, is an excellent survey of one approach to planned development in India. It deals with the use of ‘formal’ models of economic relationships—‘formal’ in the sense that these relationships are encapsulated in mathematical equations involving exactly specified variables…
Reviewed by: Nitin Desai
M.R. Biju
With the dawn of an era of liberalization and globalization in India, rural and urban development cannot be strictly compartmentalized.
Reviewed by: Manmohan Singh Gill
Rajeev Malhotra
Kaushik Basu who has written the foreword for the book says ‘Taking advantage of this (2011) being the Golden Jubilee Year of the IES (Indian Economic Service), it was decided to bring out a book written entirely by the officers of the service.’
Reviewed by: Arnab Bose
Craig Baxter
Craig Jeffrey’s book can be summed up in one equation: Unemployed Jat students of Meerut in limbo—political activism.
Reviewed by: Vasundhara Sirnate