Doctoral dissertations, especially in our time, have a strange habit of finding their way into print. Most of these do not seem to have serious academic value; many of them are not read anyway and are really the products of extra-academic compulsions (one of which is the famous, no longer transatlantic ‘publish or perish’)…
Richard Adams writes a memorable story of redemption through suffering, in his intensely moving Shardik. Readers who are acquainted with Watership Down will find Richard Adam’s second book quite unlike his first in theme and content. Yet equally arresting. The style of writing, the scale…
This book should dispel the apprehension—which is there in the minds of many in the country—that the message of the International Women’s Year and the revival of the movement for development of women, might disrupt our way of life. It reveals the basic fact that even English educated upper middle class urban women…
Andre Gunder Frank’s book which was written at the very beginning of the ascent of the ‘Dependence theory’ is a difficult book to read and to review. It does not make for easy reading partly because the draft which was prepared in 1963, was published almost without change after a lapse of several years…
In any study of developing societies and particularly when efforts are made to analyse the process of transition from traditional patterns to those of modernity, it is inevitable to blur the line between different institutional structures—both traditional and secular. It is very difficult to separate religion from politics…
For outright complexity and inconstancy, the politics and rivalries of the Middle East have few equals. They affect extra-regional and global developments. The diplomatic conse-quences of post-1945 decolonization in the Arab world, the deepening involvement of the superpowers in the area and in the succession…