By Radha Chakravarty
A distinct symbolism underlines Radha Chakravarty’s debut collection of poems Subliminal.
The title hints at a presence which though unseen is palpable.
Reviewed by: Basudhara Roy
Translated and Annotated by Shama Mitra Chenoy
While Sair-ul Manazil was the first attempt to chronicle the city, its structures, its people and their culture and weaving its past with the present, Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi was a compilation of the pictures, paintings and brief texts on certain people and structures of Delhi as it was in 1844
Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
By Robert Eric Frykenberg
Each of the twenty-five chapters is an essay written by Frykenberg, one of the most important economic historians of our times, during a career spanning over six decades. Besides economic issues, the articles in the present volume also deliberate upon facets pertaining to social,
Reviewed by: Amol Saghar
By Ranjusri Ghosh
The author informs that these sculptures are housed in different places—homes, courts, schools, private collections and police stations.
Reviewed by: Krishnendu Ray
By Nupur Dasgupta
Nevertheless, as studies on British colonialism in India quintessentially sought to figure out the transition of non-European countries under colonial dominance, British engagement with plants and their medicinal value became too marginal to find mention in scholarly enquiries.
Reviewed by: Burton Cleetus
By Anuradha Roy
The work was initially undertaken as a project that was part of a research programme in Jadavpur University on the environmental history of South Asia.
Reviewed by: Nivedita Sen