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The Mosaic of Islam
Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Quran and the history of the faith.
Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State
Total Capitalism is about the way capitalism has been transformed from an economic system controlled – in some countries, and always with difficulty – by democracy, into a largely uncontrolled system that increasingly invades the whole of life. Just as total war is war fought without limitations, by whole societies, total capitalism invades and dominates…
Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India
Kafkaland explores the grisly underbelly of counterterrorism, where prejudice and lawlessness are the standard operating codes. From Mumbai to Bangalore, to Delhi to Madhya Pradesh, it examines some of the most prominent terror cases to show that the hallmark of terror investigations is not simply a casual subversion of norms but cynical prejudice and brutal…
Fascism: Essays on Europe and India
The victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of Arthur Rosenberg’s fascinating analysis of the emergence of fascism in Europe, as well as a short introduction to the essay that explains its significance, and then four contributions that extend 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…
Americana
Perry Anderson looks at the past and present of American politics at home and abroad, its makers and thinkers, successes and failures in a series of essays of exceptional sweep and command of detail. The edition of the book by Three Essays Collective is enhanced with an additional essay and preface for the Indian reader.…
Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures
Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated his audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style of his talks, and his…
Unravelling the Hindutva Playbook of Social Engineering
“An authoritative account of a post-truth India, this book fills a yawning gap in intellectual resistance, by unravelling the nuts and bolts of the strategies followed in setting the stage for the Hinduisation of the public sphere.” “An authoritative account of a post-truth India, this book fills a yawning gap in intellectual resistance, by unravelling…
Science in Saffron: Skeptical Essays on History of Science
There is much talk of the glories of ancient Hindu sciences in India today. Landmark discoveries in every field of science, from mathematics to medicine, are being credited to ancient scientists-sages of India. This book places such priority claims in a comparative global history of science. While fully acknowledging the substantial contributions of Indian geometers,…
India’s Market Society: Three Essays in Political Economy
Barbara Harriss-White’s work breaks new ground in showing how non-market and non-state institutions shape India’s market society. She focuses on markets for land, labour and essential commodities in small town economies to show the vitality of caste and ‘religious pluralism’ (among other factors) in their functioning. Far from being vestiges of an earlier era, she…
New book: Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy by Barbara Harriss-White and others
India’s founding fathers and neo-liberalisers alike expected economic development to dissolve ‘archaic’ forms of exchange, but the modern Indian economy remains embedded in caste relations. At the base of the caste hierarchy are formerly untouchable and tribal workers. But a growing minority of dalits and adivasis have been incorporated into the Indian economy not as…
Perry Anderson remembers Praful Bidwai
On publication of The Indian Ideology, I was asked by Praful Bidwai if he could interview me about it for Outlook. I was then in France, and our exchange was conducted by email. … [Before this] I had met Praful just once, at a conference in Delhi in 2010, at which I remember him gently reproaching me…
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…
A sad day for publishing
Penguin, in agreeing to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: an alternative history, has signaled its willingness to do business with the ultra right in India. The venerable Oxford University Press has already been doing this for some time: the fate of the book on Shivaji by James Laine and the anthology of essays by…
India Exclusion Report, 2019-20
India Exclusion Report is a collaborative effort involving institutions and individuals working with a shared notion of social and economic equity, justice and rights. The report seeks to inform public opinion around exclusion and the role of the state; and to influence policy making towards creating a more inclusive, equitable and just society. It is…
Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals
These essays focus on the role of fashionable critiques and smug dismissals of secularism and modernity, and the unqualified defense of so-called indigenous traditions in providing intellectual support for the discourse of Hindutva. CONTENTS Preface Secularism, Anti-Secularism and “Theoretical Bubble-Blowing” Hindutva and the Mainstreaming of Bigotry The “Racialization” of Communal Identity Bibliography Cover photo: William…
Remapping Knowledge: The Making of South Asian Studies in India, Europe and America (19th–20th centuries)
This book seeks to document the constitution of bodies of knowledge on South Asia spanning two centuries (19th–20th), by providing a genealogy of the institutionalisation and transformations occurring in South Asian studies across Europe, India and the United States. Three specific points are addressed in the essays: the cognitive construction of South Asia in the…
Of Gardens and Graves: Review by Gowhar Fazili in Biblio
The juxtaposition and the parallel reading of poems written by Pandit and Muslim poets is a conscious move to se the shared language and poetry as the “affective glue that binds” them together even as they bear witness to “the destruction of the community”. Kaul does not perceive the suffering of the two communities –…
The Kafkalands Of India
At a time when the world is back to debating terror, it’s clear that the ruling regime in India has made certain that things tilt in a certain direction. On December 30, 2014, in what appeared to be a New Year gift, BJP President Amit Shah was let off on all charges linked to the…
New book by Daya R. Varma: Reason and Medicine
We are pleased to announce the release of Daya Varma’s Reason and Medicine, Art and science of healing from antiquity to modern times. This book is brilliant and wise, full of unexpected insights, and a delight to read! It is the kind of rare book that only a practising scientist with a deep awareness of…
Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a Social History of Conversions in Orissa, 1800-2000
This monograph explores questions related to the notion of conversion that has indeed become a contentious issue in India today. Examined from within the framework of social history, the author delineates the evolution of the caste system in Orissa over the colonial and post-colonial period, bringing to life those involved in this process. Besides interrogating…
To Speak of Kashmir
Of Gardens and Graves “In our world, official stories are repeated ad nauseam by every form of government or corporate media, and most often these stories have more to do with administrative convenience than with people’s lives. One of the most important tasks of writers is to produce accounts of experiences and events that contest…
How the Indian State Constructs ‘Muslimness’ through Law and Violence
“In Tanweer Fazal’s book, ‘Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India’, he explains how this state-sponsored identity flattens the Muslims into a homogenous community.” “Taking a leaf from Jean Paul Sartre’s Nothingness of Being, where he reflects on the Jewish identity being fixed by the anti-semite gaze, in India the state’s gaze…
Art, Truth and Politics: The 2005 Nobel Prize Lecture
Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it. It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it…
Probing the unhealed wounds
Splintered Justice: Living the Horror of Mass Communal Violence in Bhagalpur and Gujarat captures the anatomy of a communal riot. A review by Kuldeep Kumar in The Hindu.
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Keeper of Memory
On Eduardo Galeano … Galeano’s death on April 13 is like the death of Gabriel García Márquez last year. The departure of both is a huge loss for the continent. Both knew how to tell a tale: one could bring his literary talent into play in histories of imperialism, of everyday life, of football; the other…
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…
Outsider in the White House
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history. In this…
The American Scheme: Three Essays
Poverty, racism and sexism are rife within the US, but, in truth, the conditions for major social change are not yet in evidence. This short book of three essays offers an assessment of the contradictions of US life, of the attempts by its economic and political managers to stabilize their dominance (by incarceration, mainly), and…
Indian Society and the Secular
Romila Thapar‘s new book of essays, Indian Society and the Secular, arrives at a time when India is facing its greatest challenges since Independence in 1947. With ultra right in power and forces of Hindu nationalism out to revise the very idea of a pluralistic, democratic and secular republic and recast it into a Hindu rashtra.…
“A lingering pain that seeps slowly and eternally through the flooded scars of Kashmir”
Hufaiza Pandit reviews Of Gardens and Graves To read Of Gardens and of Graves is to witness the coming to life of Yeats’ famous line: “A terrible beauty is born”. It is to be reminded, if ever a reminder was needed, of the lingering pain that seeps slowly and eternally through the flooded scars of Kashmir, the…
Political Economy of Uncaring: A review
C Shambu Prasad reviews A.R. Vasavi’s book Shadow Spaces: Suicides and the Predicament of Rural India in EPW. Why is it that India, which has arguably the largest number of farmers in the world, spends little time discussing its worst agrarian crisis? Why are farmer suicides not considered “newsworthy”? What makes us treat them as…
The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexualities, literature and cinema in india
It is a good time to take stock of paths and markers in the cultural battleground of sexualities in India. To note the impossibility of quantifying wins and losses because this war against moral panics cannot be measured by legislative gains. The politics of sexuality in the arts as well as the everyday in india…
History as a Site of Struggle book release video by Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala
Watch the book release of History as a Site Struggle by KN Panikkar. Speakers include Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India, and Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala. Also present were Romila Thapar, Shashi Tharoor and N.A. Baby. The event took place in Thiruvanathapuram on September 11, 2013.
Before the Law
Kafkaland explores the grisly underbelly of counterterrorism, where prejudice and lawlessness are the standard operating codes. From Mumbai to Bangalore, to Delhi to Madhya Pradesh, it examines some of the most prominent terror cases to show that the hallmark of terror investigations is not simply a casual subversion of norms but cynical prejudice and brutal…
Light of the Universe: Essays on Hindustani Film Music
Starting with the premise that Hindustani cine-song and cine-music has been the main narrative, rather than a pleasant diversion, for the movie-loving public, the author has undertaken a journey into the enchanting world of singers, musicians, lyricists and assessed their contribution as powerful creators of popular culture, as interpreters of the subcontinental ethos, people’s aspirations…
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…
Media roundup for the book release of History as a Site of Struggle
The Hindu The true historian would strive to explain to the reader how and why things were as they were, avoiding any kind of blind trust in tradition. The Vice-President said Mr. Panikkar stood tall in the noble fraternity of such historians. New Indian Express Ansari said that this volume was a collection of papers…
KN Panikkar’s History as a Site of Struggle reviewed in Frontline
History as a Site of Struggle encapsulates the righteous indignations of a sensitive activist of a historian who is unhappy with the way politics has been drifting into the narrow alleys of obscurantist jingoism and sectarian hatred. Panikkar has been an eminent academic, but, as the editor rightly puts it, “he has spent as much time…