From Telegraph newspaper, India Today, Guide to Indian Periodical Literature, Indian Historical Review, Economic and Political Weekly, etc.
India Today
2019 April 15, p.
22 The
Verdict Decoding India’s Elections. By Prannoy Roy.
2019
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Bihar Caste in Stone (elections) p. 60-61.
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Jharkhand 65
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Mughal empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan edited by Ebba Koch and Ail Anooshahr
2019 March 18, p.
80. Amitav
Ghosh Apocalypse Now
2019 January 28,
p. 14. Mercnatilist
Mantry. Laxminama. Anshuman Tiwari and.
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15. Time’s up? (on Lalu and others free housing for ex-CMs)
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71 Urdu Memories Ye un dinon ki baat hai. Urdu Memories of Cinema Legends by
Yasir Abbasi. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056070120
2019 January 14,
p. 20. Breathless
nation. Great Smog of India. Siddharath Singh
Guide to Indian Periodical Literature
2017 October-December v. 54 no. 4
11
Bihar (3 suggestions)
34 Fertility
70 Patna
95 Television
Broadcasting – Bihar
Television
in agriculture - Bihar
2017 July-September vol. 54. No. 3
4
Bihar Agri credit
13
Bihar
23 Bihar
Controaception
34-35 Bihar Employment
40
Family planning
X
Jharkhand
X
Naxalites
Indian Historical Review
2017 June v. 44 No. 1
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist
Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse
Jain Meenakshi , Sati: Evangelicals,
Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse. New Delhi: Aryan
Books International, 2016, pp. xxiv + 464 pp., 17 illustrations, ₹995, ISBN
978-81-7305-552-2. P. 151-153 in print.
Ideas and Institutions in Medieval
India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries
Seshan Radhika , Ideas and
Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries. New Delhi:
Orient Blackswan, 2013, 218 pp., ISBN 978-81-25051-74-9. Page 169 in print.
The Indian Economic and Social History Review
2017 January-March. vol. LIV, no. 1.
Campaigning for a community: Urdu literature of mobilisation and identity
Christina
Oesterheld p. 43-66 in print (three References to S. R. Faruqi works)
Economic and Political Weekly 2018 or 2019
Caste Discrimination in Higher Education Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 Jul, 2018
The death
of Rohith Vemula once again triggered an intense debate on the prevalence of
caste discrimination in higher education. Addressing the situation from a legal
perspective, the shortcomings of the existing legal norms on caste
discrimination become apparent, especially when compared with the regulations
on ragging. Effective measures to overcome caste discrimination in higher
education are then the need of the hour.
History, Memory and Struggles Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 Jul, 2018
The Roots
of the Periphery: A History of the Gonds of Deccan India by Bhangya Bhukya, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp 209, ₹ 750 .
Culture or Conflict? Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 Jul, 2018
Conflict,
Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human–Elephant Relations in South Asia
edited by Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
2016; pp xiii + 366, ₹ 995.
Forest Shrines and Sacred Groves Vol. 53, Issue No. 26-27, 30 Jun, 2018
The
article delineates the life-affirming values of caring for the earth among the
Kodavas in Kodagu district, Karnataka. It argues that the coffee economy under
colonial rule depleted the forestland, a trend exacerbated by the
post-independence economic and forest policies. The full impact of these
policies are apparent from the growing conflict in the area between wild
elephants and humans.
The Many Histories of Protest Music Vol. 53, Issue No. 26-27, 30 Jun, 2018
The
Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre
Association by Sumangala Damodaran, New Delhi: Tulika, 2017; pp xiv+234, ₹ 950.
Charting Contemporary Sociology
Towards
a New Sociology in India edited by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Ritambhara Hebbar,
Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2016; pp x + 266, ₹ 850.
Voices from the Periphery
Islands
in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story by Pankaj Sekhsaria, Noida: Harper
Litmus, 2017; pp xxx + 268, ₹399.
The Many Lives and Names of ‘Bhagwan/Bhogwan Singh’
Were
Betty Lee, the owner of a Los Angeles apparel store, and Abnashi Ram, a
businessman of Indian origin, the missing links between the strange double lives
of Ghadar leader Bhagwan Singh Gyanee and Hollywood “turban-wrapper” Bhogwan
Singh?
A
local tribal force has been created in the central paramilitary to take on the
Maoists in Bastar.
.
Women, Leverage and Peasant Revolutionary Organisations
Vast
scholarship has found women in revolutionary organisations lacking in
bargaining potential, being accorded subordinate positions, and facing sexual
violence. This paper refutes such claims of homogeneity in women’s experiences,
instead showing, under several structural conditions, that women’s groups
exercised power, becoming central to guerrilla movement resilience. Using the
case of the Maoists in two districts in Telangana, the author finds that the
presence of relatively autonomous women’s groups in the villages generated a
collective structural leverage—where women could steer movement actions,
bargain for their demands to be met, and influence movement trajectory. Women
have become essential to the guerrillas in delivering meaningful social change
in the villages and creating robust support systems that can sustain an armed
movement, while at the same time generating bargaining power for women.
Urdu Newspapers in India
The
declining fortunes of Urdu newspapers seem to be reversing as major media
houses are beginning to invest in Urdu media. Largely catering to the Muslim
population in the country, its impact in terms of representing Muslim interests
and shaping Muslim opinion is enormous. Domestically, almost all Urdu media
outlets regularly highlight the theme of Muslim victimhood at the hands of the
Indian state. Internationally, these outlets are consistently critical of
Israel, the United States and the West for their propaganda vis-à-vis
international Islamic terrorism and adverse foreign policy towards Muslim
nations.
Academic Freedom and Indian Universities
Academic
freedom is increasingly under assault from authoritarian governments worldwide,
supported by right-wing student groups who act as provocateurs within. In
India, recent assaults on academic freedom have ranged from curbs on academic
and extracurricular events to brutal assaults on students. However, the concept
of academic freedom is complex and needs to be placed in a wider institutional
context. While academic freedom was critical to earlier visions of the Indian
university, as shown by various commissions on higher education, it is now
increasingly devalued in favour of administrative centralisation and
standardisation. Privatisation and the increase in precarious employment also
contribute to the shrinking of academic freedom.
Gendered Geographies of Resistance Movements Vol. 53, Issue No. 15, 14 Apr, 2018
Subaltern
Movements in India: Gendered Geographies of Struggle against Neoliberal
Development by Manisha Desai; London and New York: Routledge, 2016; pp xxiii +
152, price not indicated .
Censorship through the Ages Vol. 53, Issue No. 13, 31 Mar, 2018
The
Writer, the Reader and the State: Literary Censorship in India by Mini
Chandran, New Delhi, California, London and Singapore: Sage Publications, 2017;
pp xxxv + 191, ` 695.
Emerging New Social Status among Dalits in Bihar Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
The
social status of Dalits in Bihar is undergoing change. A study based in a
village and a town in East Champaran district of north Bihar reveals that
Dalits are developing social consciousness, adopting Sanskritisation, and
accessing constitutional provisions, and socio-religious movements, to change
both their caste and class status.
Mobile Phones for Maternal Health in Rural Bihar Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
Health
programmes that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in rural
India are examined. Presented by its promoters as a universal, accessible and
“smart” empowering technology, how mobile devices transform gender inequalities
on the ground is analysed. By using empirical data collected on a global
mHealth programme deployed in Bihar, how mHealth devices negate the
multifactorial dimension of gender and health inequalities is explained, and
also how these devices can reinforce inequalities on the ground is examined.
Chaos or Conquest Vol. 53, Issue No. 7, 17 Feb, 2018
India
Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire by Jon Wilson, London: Simon
& Schuster, 2016; pp 564, ₹ 799.
Caste and Power in Villages of Colonial Bengal Vol. 53, Issue No. 6, 10 Feb, 2018
An
exposition of four court cases demonstrates that by the late 1920s, the
educated middle classes wielded the colonial state apparatus. Moreover, the
colonial state had partially delinked the premodern affiliation of local muscle
to the local hubs of power. Therefore, at the village level, local malcontents
were isolated and booked for lawbreaking. Villagers/village communities were
located within a caste-based social structure, though caste hierarchies in
Tamluk seemed more fluid. They also had the option to activate the (ideally)
caste-neutral state apparatus, which sharpened their perceptions of legal
subjectivity, and increased their stake in the government.
The Good Historian Vol. 53, Issue No. 6, 10 Feb, 2018
Talking
History by Romila Thapar, Ramin Jahanbegloo and Neeladri Bhattacharya, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp xvi + 340, ₹ 795.
Recovering Memories of Partition
Are
stories lost forever, and do personal histories count? In a world that has in
recent decades seen immense change, with identities and even histories in flux,
it also follows that “big events” shape “small lives.” But the manner in which
every life comes about, how one’s history is shaped, has a bearing on the
universal history that is then written about. Many a time, small histories are
lost, and it is then that we must go in search for these other stories, using
our own memory tools.
Squabble over Resources in Bastar’s Forests Vol. 52, Issue No. 35, 02 Sep, 2017
Book Reviews Vikramaditya Thakur.
Print p. 27-30.
Blood
Red River: A Journey into the Heart of India’s Development Conflict by Rohit
Prasad, Gurgaon: Hachette India, 2016; pp 336, ₹ 399.
