Book Review of the Week

Reviews of books from a publisher *other* than me, recommended for your reading …                   … and, since reviews are so short, why not read one or two of these reviews right now?

No Land’s People indicts India’s NRC process

By Saif Khalid Published On 2 Nov 20212 Nov 2021 India’s northeastern state of Assam drew the attention of international media in August 2019, when a citizens’ register excluded nearly two million residents, effectively rendering them stateless. The National Register of Citizens (NRC), a labyrinthine bureaucratic exercise carried out under the supervision of India’s Supreme Court, was aimed

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Rise of Indian Americans

Rajesh Mehta’s Review of “Kamala Harris and the Rise of Indian Americans”

Provides fresh and fascinating insights that can be inspirational and valuable for a wide range of audience “Kamala Harris and the Rise of Indian Americans,” edited by Tarun Basu, is an evocative collection of essays which try to capture the rise of Indian Americans across a wide range of domains from politics to administration, entrepreneurship

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keeping in touch by anjali joseph

Ishpita Mitra’s Review of “Keeping In Touch” by Anjali Joseph

She is 39. He is 37. Keteki and Ved, the protagonists of Anjali Joseph’s new book, Keeping in Touch, meet at Heathrow Airport. She is returning home to Assam and he is on his way to Bombay. Such a beginning is liable to give an impression of entering the far-too-familiar landscape of a boy-meets-girl-at-airport-they-fall-in-love kind of

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living with oil and coal

Bengt Karlsson’s Review of “Living with Oil & Coal” by Dolly Kikon

Foothills. Such a lovely word. It signals an elusive geography—neither high-altitude mountains, nor flatlands or plains. As we learned from postcolonial theorists like Homi K Bhabha and Edward Said, foothills have that quality of the creative in-between space where differences can flourish. In anthro­pologist Dolly Kikon’s masterly crafted book Living with Oil & Coal: Resource Politics

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singing-gandhis-india

Basav Biradar’s review: “Singing Gandhi’s India: Music and Sonic Nationalism”

In Singing Gandhi’s India, historian Lakshmi Subramanian examines Gandhi’s relationship with music through his letters, significant events and other documents. Leaning on bhajans Subramanian begins by introducing the reader to the early nationalisation project aimed at collating and creating a new ‘classical’ tradition of Indian music: Hindustani classical in the north and Carnatic in the south.

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the shudras vision for a new path

Grant McFarland’s Review: “The Shudras: Vision For New Path”

India’s farmers have sustained the largest protests in modern Indian history since Mahatma Gandhi and the independence movement. While Gandhi’s khadi dhoti appeared in media worldwide, the farmers received relatively scant attention until cultural stars like Rihanna and Greta Thunberg tweeted and Disha Ravi, the granddaughter of a farmer, was arrested. Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste:

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