Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Some South Asia sources in newspapers, magazines, etc.


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 
--- Bihar Caste in Stone (elections) p. 60-61.
--- Jharkhand 65
--- 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.
--- 15. Time’s up? (on Lalu and others free housing for ex-CMs)
--- 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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.

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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

Blood Red River: A Journey into the Heart of India’s Development Conflict by Rohit Prasad, Gurgaon: Hachette India, 2016; pp 336, ₹ 399.

 


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