Neilesh Bose
The self-fashioning of bhadralok Hindus in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their responses to colonial rule, is an area which is frequently traversed by researchers.
Reviewed by: Amit Dey
Bidyut Chakrabarty
The book at hand attempts to study a significant and for the present times, a deeply pertinent field: the similarities, influences and overlaps in terms of the understanding, commitment and praxis of two of the most influential political leaders of the 20th century namely Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reviewed by: Rohini Mokashi Punekar
Crispin Bates
Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives is the fifth and latest volume published in the series Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857.
Reviewed by: Soofia Siddique
Ananda Bhattacharya
It is generally assumed that Bengal, and eastern and north-eastern India generally, remained unaffected by the anti-colonial struggle of 1857-58.
Reviewed by: Amar Farooqui
Himanjali Sankar
TALKING OF MUSKAAN
2015
2015
I’d already heard many good things about Himanjali Sankar’s young adult novel Talking of Muskaan, so I was really looking forward to reading the book.
Reviewed by: Sowmya Rajendran
Chitra Viraraghavan
THE AMERICANS
2015
2015
The title of ChitraViraraghavan’snovel,The Americans, indicates that the Indian diaspora in the United States of America has indeed come of age. It also affirms that Indians in the US are not quite the outsiders who are trying to assimilate into the melting pot or are the hyphenated
Reviewed by: Aparna Rayaprol