Ronnie Vernooy, Li Xiaoyun, Xu Xiuli, Lu Min and Qi Gubo

China is on everyone’s itinerary and hence there is sustained writing on the ‘Rise of China’. The good news is that the focus has broadened from a sole preoccupation with Chinese economic and military growth to include Chinese initiatives in science and technology and education. Innovation is also on everyone’s list.


Reviewed by: Sonika Gupta
Aniket Alam

After being neglected for many years the Himalayan region has got much attention from historians in the last two decades. Becoming India by Aniket Alam is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of works.


Reviewed by: Dhirendra Datt Dangwal
Richard M. Eaton

This book is a fascinating study of the Deccan from the early fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism in the eighteenth century. We can locate the region called the Deccan in modern India in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.


Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
Mathew John and Sitharamam Kakarala

Books with their emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach to law in India are rare to come by, but rarer still is a book on the developments and challenges to legal education in the country today.


Reviewed by: Kamala Sankaran
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Probably few other concepts occupy, if not hegemonize, political imagination as democracy does. ‘What began as an improvised remedy for a very local Greek difficulty two and a half thousand years ago,


Reviewed by: Harsh Sethi