Books

A volume that attempts to explain why and how the Hindutva project of creating a majoritarian state took off in 2014.

The book is the outcome of several decades of serious research and makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of ...

A skilfully crafted book that paints a vivid portrait of the past as it unfolded in the life of the Governor’s house in ...

The biography of the economist Ajit Singh is also the history of the tactics neoclassical economists have adopted all ...

A timely, eloquent series of interviews that interrogate the correlation of violence with gender discrimination, white ...

A delectable anthology of Urdu ghazals in Roman transliteration (and translation) of poets from the late sixteenth ...

A kaleidoscope of conversations with 17 Tamil women on their writerly selves and how they pursue their craft against all ...

A sparkling new book on Asian elephants allows readers to see different dimensions of this animal that has been close to ...

A remarkably accessible book about the ethnic foundations of the Indian people, dense with evidence from archaeology, ...

Architectural exploration in the sultanate of Ahmednagar can provide deep insights into the political history of the ...

Engaging and disturbing narratives, in prose and in verse, about displacement, dispossession and the legacy of ...

This book helps in preparing its reader to face death calmly even as it instructs him in the history of medicine and the ...

This book by an eminent practitioner of multilateral diplomacy is not only for students of international relations and ...

The book vividly portrays Girish Kasaravalli as a consummate artist and deals with his body of work in all its thematic ...

For Indian readers, particularly, the novel hits bang in the solar plexus: everything said and implied is relevant in ...

E.M. Thomas’ book on P.J. Thomas is a valuable contribution in the field of the history of economic thought, a subject ...

"Gendering Caste" examines the role of women in the perpetuation of caste and the need to go beyond the conventional ...

The book under review studies election patterns in the State over the 1990-2015 period but leaves out crucial details on ...

Paul Zacharia, in this new narrative structure, ushers in a new sensibility, a new approach, examining in a playfully ...

This book documents the spate of gruesome cow-related lynchings after 2014 even as it studies the importance of the cow ...

A timely book on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that holds valuable lessons for the country today and shows why Gandhi ...

This book is a must-read for all those with an interest in the defining Indian problem of the day, mass unemployment.

Jason Brennan posits a radical, if problematic, thesis that responsible citizens should question authority and fight ...

This book explains the conditions that facilitate fascist politics and the multiple strategies that its advocates ...