The ‘outsider’ secretary SHONALEEKA KAUL A glimpse into the cultural world of a Hindu munshi in the Mughal court.
Under the gun DIVYA TRIVEDI The essays in the book reflect women’s lived realities under state terror, bearing witness to the lasting impact of ...
Killers’ impunity A.G. NOORANI The Bhagalpur riots and the Gujarat pogrom had common features which still persist.
The real Raj K. P. Fabian Shashi Tharoor counters with remarkable finesse and fairness the best arguments of the defenders of the Raj to expose ...
A judicial heritage KALEESWARAM RAJ THE history of the judiciary is not just its legal history alone. It required the well-known architectural historian ...
On the boundaries BURTON CLEETUS A collection of essays that looks at how the history of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was shaped by colonial ...
Politics behind the scenes A.G. NOORANI A two-volume compilation of British despatches to London from India and Pakistan in the year after the twin dominions ...
Woman power A timely reminder that International Women’s Day had its origin in the revolutionary socialist movement.
Elephants down the ages S. THEODORE BASKARAN Informative studies on the history of the elephant in South Asia and its relations with human beings in the past, ...
Book excerpts On macabre pogroms THE Bhiwandi conflagration of 1984 drew me—as a journalist first —into the world of communal riots. Bombay started to ...
Challenging mythology SUSAN RAM The scholarship of Alan Taylor’s book, published before the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, suggests that Trumpism ...
Never say die AN aggressive vilification campaign by the right wing has landed Teesta Setalvad in a situation where she is forced to ...
Patron of the poor A. G. NOORANI This thought-provoking book on Sufism is written in a style that rivets readers’ interest, and the illustrations are a ...
Broader perspective C. T. Kurien A fresh evaluation of the relationship between the state and capital since Independence.
The crisis in humanities Shelley Walia The author makes a forceful argument for freeing academia from the clutches of corporate interests and correcting the ...
Ancient text, new lives Shonaleeka Kaul A lucid work that deals with an immensely complex subject such as the contemporary oral performance of the ...
Populist demagogues THE menace is as ancient as the Greeks and the Romans—democracies’ proneness to self-destruction. The prime architect of ...
An upright civil servant A.G. NOORANI In the civil service, N.N. Vohra had no parallel in terms of the knowledge and consistency with which he spoke on the ...
For sustainable development S. GOPIKRISHNA WARRIER This book, a tribute to the environment economist U. Sankar, elaborates on a range of environmental and development ...
Behind the mutinies VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED The volume explores how 19th century mutinies were connected to the issues of honour and justice, paternalistic ...
Revisiting a revolt BISWAMOY PATI The book attempts to focus on bourgeoisation as a factor that precipitated the Great Revolt of 1857.
Unravelling the ISI SHUJAAT BUKHARI A laudable account of the evolution of Pakistan’s all-powerful intelligence agency and its expanding role in the ...
Talking trees LYLA BAVADAM In describing how trees communicate and have a sense of community and feelings, the book brings soul back to science ...
The birth of a State T.K. RAJALAKSHMI Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh narrates his personal engagement with the processes that led to the creation of ...
