Thursday, January 11, 2018

Now Read This - 2018 New Year’s Library Resources News

New for the New Year! You may be interested in some of the titles of the new recent issue of Biblio (Oct-Dec 2017).  Some of its reviews are online (red below); the other reviews are available in the print edition on Alderman’s 2nd Floor, the Asian Room periodicals. Call number Z 1035 .A1 B43; Check it out.
     Do you know about the importance of the ‘attendant lords’ in the Mughal courts (Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim) or the poetry of Bahadur Shah? There are reviews of several titles on partition and the India-Pakistan relationship, as well as an examination of the impact of demonitisation, corruption, and India’s changing economy.  Sister Nivedita? Also 3,000 years of India dissents. Finally a selection of the “top 10” (actually 16) of the best books of 2017, with the usual and the unusual picks by Biblio reviewers.
     See the list - Click on ‘Top 10 books for 2017 from India’
     The Telegraph has it’s own review of TCA Raghavan’s “The People Next Door” and also a review of Ila Pal’s book on Husain: portrait of an artist.
     There’s more, much more (daily connections) – such as the recent issues of Seminar and the Indian Economic and Social History Review including Jennifer Dubrow’s recent (Nov 2017) article “Serial fictions: Urdu print culture and the novel in colonial South Asia”


      Well, enjoy the new year of 2018 – keep reading, researching, writing – sometimes even check out the library resources.


[some of the most memorable books of 2017]

Here’s the list of the Biblio Table of contents:



Biblio: a review of books
VOL XXII NOS. 10-12  OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2017

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The articles in red are free to access and only require you to register with us.
Please use Mozilla based browsers like Firefox to download any article from our website. For any further assistance please write to web@biblio-india.org You can click on the reviewer's name below to know more about them

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