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Losses Gains: The Autobiography of Ralph Russell. The Middle Years
The autobiography of Ralph Russell, Marxist and celebrated Urdu scholar, offers a fascinating insight into some of the major 20th century events which have shaped our world today. Ralph Russell (1918-2008) is best known as one of the foremost western scholars of Urdu literature. For over fifty years his teaching, translations and writings have made…
On Their Watch: Mass violence and State apathy in India, Examining the record
In 2005, India passed a law giving individuals the right to information on the State’s acts and decisions. Using this law, the authors in this edited volume applied for official records about four of the worst episodes of mass violence in independent India. These traumatic events had not previously been scrutinised using the recently-minted law…
The Aryan: Recasting Constructs
To identify the Aryan is to search for that which remains elusive. There have been many definitions based on multiple and diverse factors and there are therefore inevitable disagreements about both the identification and the meaning of the concept. It is probably the most complex question in early Indian history and it requires considerable expertise…
The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Report
This is an ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in the north Indian state of Rajasthan during the period 1990-94. It looks at the transformation of cultural meanings in everyday life that make possible the political success and the anti-minority violence of the Hindu right. Media and academic accounts of the Hindu right…
The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities
An egalitarian ethos has not been a prominent feature of Indian civilization, at least since the decline of Buddhism over a thousand years ago. All people, it is believed, are created unequal, born into a hierarchy of status and dignity, and endowed not with universal but particular rights and duties. This has greatly amplified the…
The Present in Delhi’s pasts: Five Essays
This is the much awaited, revised and enlarged, edition of a book acclaimed for its innovative approach as well as evocative prose. The essays in this volume are about old monuments and villages in New Delhi. The author investigates both, the medieval history of these sites and changes that have occured in these areas in…
The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva
Meera Nanda’s book is an impassioned plea for secularization of mentalities. She compares the secular polities of India and America to argue that, faced with the current right wing assault, secular constitutions alone cannot guarantee secularism. She examines how India’s major ecological movements have been reframed by Brahminical Hinduism with some unintended but crucial help…
To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades
This is a path-breaking work on the political life and times of Bhagat Singh and his associates, and the organizations of which they were a part – the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha. It highlights many hitherto neglected aspects of the evolution of Bhagat Singh as a national hero, including…
Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present – Narratives from Orissa
This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, land, and memory. Tracing the continuities between Hindutva and Hindu cultural dominance, this…
Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq. Stories of development and everyday citizenship in India
Working with Muslims goes down to the ground in eight major states of India and investigates the reality of non-government organizations and their development work, with the largest marginalized minority in the world’s largest democracy. It asks the simple questions (Who is working with Muslims? On which issues?), and the complex ones (What lens is…
Securing the Nation State as Terrorist
Excerpt from the review in EPW by Sharib Ali What Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India has to say is indeed odd and tragic. Sethi’s canvas is specific. It is not Kashmir, not the north-east, not “Naxal”. It is bomb blasts, attacks, conspiracies in “mainland” Indian cities and towns, which have together constituted the…
Representing Cultural Evolution through Song-text
The book holds a cross-disciplinary appeal and beyond academia, anyone with a keen interest in poetry and music in Indian tradition could find it worth a read. Vidula Sonagra, EPW A review that very succinctly tells us what the book contains, achieves and represents. The book is a significant contribution to the social history of…
We are at the 2013 New Delhi World Book Fair
Three Essays Collective books are available at the 2013 New Delhi Book Fair from February 4 to 10. We are sharing the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD) stall with like-minded publishers. IPD Alternatives Stall No 197-198, Hall 14 Pragati Maidan exhibition grounds New Delhi For more information, visit the New Delhi Book Fair website: www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in
A life of music: Patha Chatterjee on Gangubai Hangal
Deepa Ganesh gives a “captivating and perceptive account of the life and music of Gangubai Hangal”. Deepa Ganesh’s biography, A Life in Three Octaves, brings alive the musical journey of Gangubai Hangal and her day-to-day existential struggles. It was a life fraught with financial difficulties, which was made worse by a lack of worldliness—singers with…