Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla

The book is a collection of relevant works on different regulatory institutions in India. Given the paucity of literature on state regulation, the essays offer an in-depth view of how different regulatory institutions in India have responded to streamline the administration of the economy.


Reviewed by: Siddhartha Mukerji
Praveen Jha, Paris Yeros and Walter Chambati

Rethinking the Social Sciences with Sam Moyo is a tribute to one of Africa’s and Zimbabwe’s greatest modern thinker, Sam Moyo, who made an astounding contribution to social science with his intellectual work on the land and agrarian questions of the global South.


Reviewed by: Shivani Rajput
S. Anandhi, Karthick Ram Manoharan, M. Vijayabaskar and A. Kalaiyarasan

Rethinking Social Justice was published earlier this year in honour of MSS Pandian, the late historian of South India. The volume comprises an array of essays on a wide range of topics that are thematically organized into five sections: ‘Politics of Culture.


Reviewed by: Kiran Keshavamurthy
Aakash Singh Rathore

For the last hundred years, Ambedkarite politics has been imperatively speaking to the people of India about the idea of constitutionalism. In 1919, while submitting a memorandum to the South Borough Commission on behalf of the Depressed Classes.


Reviewed by: Jadumani Mahanand
Amba Pande

Women constitute a significant composition of Indian diasporic communities universally. Even though the role of female sojourners has been invisible in diasporic accounts for considerable period of time, feminist and subaltern interventions made substantial advancement.


Reviewed by: Parvathy Poornima
Nagesh Prabhu

The ‘exceptionalism’ of the book under review according to its author, a senior journalist, lies in the fact that it seeks to unravel the rise of the Modi leadership ‘from the middle class perspective’ without adhering to ‘any ideological point of view’ unlike ‘other books.


Reviewed by: Ashutosh Kumar