As a young man, Raja Ram Mohun Roy saw his bewildered and wailing 17-year-old, widowed sister-in-law pushed into her husband’s funeral pyre, which made him a lifelong campaigner against the practice of sati, idolatry, and obscurantist rituals.
The section highlights the fact that instead of searching for causes of Asia’s descent into poverty in the acquisition of wealth by European powers, we should try to understand the manner in which the colonial powers manipulated the ‘intra-Asian connections’
The titles of the works included in this compilation are in themselves revealing of the LeT, its mindset and equally of its priorities: ‘Why are We Waging Jihad’; ‘In Defence of Jihad’; ‘The Mujahid’s Call’; ‘We the Mothers of the Lashkar’
Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan (2017-20), Ajay Bisaria has written an engaging book, an easy read, despite 500+ pages of text.
Policing in postcolonial South Asian countries has been a complex mix of legacies from the colonial era, local traditions and the freedom struggle. Post Independence, they had to deal with the mammoth task of reforming and transforming their policing institutions.
The book explores the dynamics of Indo-US relationship in the post-Cold War context. In this endeavour, it has a detailed discussion of the core issues, the major challenges and the mutual perceptions the two countries possess towards each another.