By Raghuram G. Rajan & Rohit Lamba
The key argument of this thought-provoking book is that although the Indian economy is growing, yet its impact is seen to be very uneven
Reviewed by: TCA Ranganathan
By John Guy
James Fergusson’s Tree and Serpent Worship, published in 1868, got many things wrong but one thing right. It drew attention to the abundance of trees and snakes in the sculptures at Sanchi and Amaravati.
Reviewed by: Upinder Singh
By Snigdha Singh Primus Books, Delhi
To locate the occupations, religious preferences and mobility of the ordinary man in early India, a source of utmost importance were the donative records.
Reviewed by: Suchandra Ghosh
By Dipsikha Acharya
Instead of getting into the long-drawn ‘Iron Age and Social Change’ debate, she makes a case for bringing up the different aspects of iron production and their relationship with the social formations in the context of early India.
Reviewed by: Srabani Chakraborty
Edited by Mohammad Nazrul Bari and R. Arjun
One quickly turns the pages of the book to find out what is being ‘revisited’ to which we get an immediate answer that the book has intended to revisit ‘lesser-known history of Deccan’s social and cultural vibrancies’ (p. xvii). At the same time, at the end of their Introduction to Emperors Saints and People
Reviewed by: Aloka Parasher Sen
By Brian C. Wilson
This is an unusual and innovative book that captures the history of Velha Goa through the lens of archeology as method, and urbanism as the heuristic category for understanding the Portuguese city as it was designed and constructed since the 16th century.
Reviewed by: Lakshmi Subramanian