Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala
This collection of essays has a sense of polemic, since the writers are keen to bring the analyses of class as a category back into the sociological debate.
Reviewed by: Susan Visvanathan
Nonica Datta
‘Subhashini’, the author declares at the beginning of the book ‘is all but absent from history, though history is not absent from her life’. A cryptic statement as this carries us nowhere. Who is it who does not have history in their lives, although not all lives are in history or are material for history?
Reviewed by: Rahul Ramagundam
Ranajit Guha. Edited by Partha Chatterjee
Ranajit Guha has over his long career as the ‘founder and guiding spirit of Subaltern Studies’ (p. 1) and also for his own passionately committed writing, earned great significance worldwide among scholars and students of colonial and post-Independence Indian history and of the nature of historiography in general…
Reviewed by: Michael H. Fisher
Anne F. Broadbridge
This book by Anne Broadbridge is an interesting portrayal of diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world. Written in a narrative style, the details on the dynasties and the Sultans sometimes get monotonous but this does not take away the importance of the details that she provides lucidly on the role of ideologies,
Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
Kesavan Veluthat
The title of the book is not the Early Medieval of South India—which would have implied that the author is studying one phase amongst the many phases in the history of South India.
Reviewed by: Jaya Tyagi
Jason Hawkes& Akira Shimada
BUDDHIST STUPAS IN SOUTH ASIA: RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ART-HISTORICAL, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
2009
2009
Jason Hawkes and Akira Shimada rightly point out in their Introduction to this book that although Buddhist stupas have been studied by many scholars over a very long period of time, an integrated understanding of the stupa still eludes us.
Reviewed by: Upinder Singh