Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues for 2001, Table of Contents

Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues of 2001

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VOL. VI NO. 1 / 2	40 PAGES	JANUARY- FEBRUARY 2001
4	Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar	Tabish Khair
5	Asylum, USA by Boman Desai	Amitava Kumar
6	The Enigma of Denial: V S. Naipaul's negotiation of his homeland. An essay	Caryl Phillips
10	Leaving Amsterdam: A journey of a migrant from homeland to homeland. An essay	Anil Ramdas
13	Across the border. Letter from an Indian historian in Texas	Seema Alavi
14	About Daddy by Meena Arora Nayak, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Meera Syal, In the Garden Secretly and Other Stories by Jean Arasanayagam and Mai: A Novel by Geetanjah Shree	Ashley Tellis
15	Mirage by Bandula Chandraratna	Mithu C. Banerji
16	Mother India conquers Alexander: Hindi film songs in Greece--the latest sequel in a cultural conversation. An essay	Helen Abadzi
18	The Gin Drinkers by Sagarika Ghose	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
20	The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee	Nandini Lal
21	The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul by Indrajit Hazra	Sukanta Chaudhuri
22	21st century Kumbh. A photo essay	Karoki Lewis
24	Hinduttva: A View and a Way of Life, National Movement and the RSS Protection of Cow-Clan, Hindu Samskriti and Environment, Awakening among Women and RSS by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh	Manisha Sethi
25	The Christian Clergy in India, Volume 1: Social Structure and Social Roles by T. K. Oommen and Hunter P Mabry	A. J. Philip
27	The Politics of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Pakistan 1971-77 by Sayyid A S. Pirzada, The Mirage of Power: An Inquiry into the Bhutto Years 1971-77 by Mubashir Hasan and Pakistan: Political Roots and Development 1947-1999 by Safdar Mahmood	Oskar Verkaaik
28	The Making of Laloo Yadav: The Unmaking of Bihar Thakur, Trial and Error: The Advent and Eclipse of Benazir Bhutto by Iqbal Akhund and Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State by Ishrat Husain Sankarshan	John Elliott
30	Bihar is in the Eye of the Beholder by Vijay Nambisan	Deborah Sutton
31	State, Identity and Violence: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh by Navnita Chadha Behera	Keki N. Daruwalla
32	States of stagnation: Nationalisms and the movement for Kashmiri Independence. An essay	Soma Jabbar
34	India's Labour Standards and the WTO Framework by Subramanian Swami	S. P Shukla
36	Workers' Rights in a New Economic Order: the first Arvind N. Das Memorial Lecture from the Association of Labour Historians	Jairus Banaji
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Naga Sadhus at the Maha Kumbh Mela, 2001, by KAROKI LEWIS

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Contributors

HELEN ABADZI is a Senior Evaluation Officer at the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank.

SEEMA ALAVI is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Texas, USA.

JAIRUS BANAJI is a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

MITHU C. BANERJI is a freelance journalist and columnist based in the UK. She is currently writing her first novel.

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi.

SUKANTA CHAUDHURI is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

KEKI N. DARUWALLA was a regular columnist in The Economic Times and is a former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

JOHN ELLIOTT is a former journalist with the Financial Times in London, South Asia and Hong Kong. He now writes from New Delhi for Fortune magazine and contributes to the International Herald Tribune, the New Statesman, and other publications.

SONIA JABBAR is is an independent writer currently living and working in Kashmir and is the recipient of the WISCOMP Scholar of Peace Award, 2000.

TABISH KHAIR is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Copenhagen.

AMITAVA KUMAR is the author of Passport Photos, recently released by Penguin India. He divides his time between India and the US.

NANDINI LAL is a reviewer and critic who has worked in journalism, advertising and publishing.

KAROKI LEWIS is a London and Delhi based photographer. His book Delhi's Historic Villages: A Photographic Evocation was published in 1997, and he is currently working on a book about Mehrauli, to be published later this year.

A. J. PHILIP is Senior Editor at The Indian Express.

CARYL PHILLIPS is the author of six novels, including The Nature of Blood. His latest publication is the non-fiction book, The Atlantic Sound.

ANIL RAMDAS is the New Delhi correspondent of NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam.

MANISHA SETHI is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

S. P SHUKLA is a former Commerce Secretary to the Government of India.

DEBORAH SUTTON is a PhD student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

ASHLEY TELLIS has a PhD in Irish Women's Writing from Cambridge University and has taught at St. Xavier's College, Bombay and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

OSKAR VERKAAIK is an anthropologist working on nationalism and religion in Pakistan, in particular the Muhajirs in Sindh. He is at present affiliated with the Free University in Amsterdam.

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. VI NOS. 3 & 4	40 PAGES	MARCH APRIL 2001
4	India's Nuclear Security edited by Raju G. C. Thomas and Amit Gupta	Sukumar Muralidharan
5	Reach for the Stars: The Evolution of India's Rocket Programme by Gopal Raj	S. Ramnath
7	The Immorality of Nuclear Weapons. Keynote Address to the National Convention on Nuclear Disarmament and Peace	Amulya K. N. Reddy
8	India's Maritime Security by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury	Peter Sinai
10	Delhi: An Urban Space and Human Destinies edited by Veromque Dupont, Emma Tarlo and Denis Vidal	Awadhendra Sharan
11	Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slum by Kalpana Sharma	Orlanda Ruthven
13	An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination by Ashis Nandy	Rana Dasgupta
14	Beato's Delhi 1857, 1997 by Jim Masselos and Narayam Gupta	Ranjana Sengupta
16	London: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd	Julian Gibbs
17	Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial edited and introduced by Vinayak Chaturvedi	Bodhisattva Kar
20	The Prelude to Empire: Plassey Revolution of 1757 by Sushil Chaudhury and Society, Economy and the Market: Commercialisation in Rural Bengal c. 1760-1800 by Rajat Datta	Seema Alavi
21	Commonwealth Literature -- should the category exist? A debate
23	Something Barely Remembered by Susan Visvanathan	Nilanjana S. Roy
24	The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri	Shoma Chaudhury
25	Civil Lines 4 edited by Rukun Advani, Mukul Kesavan and Ivan Hutnik	Sharifa Chekesha Rhodes
26	Nani's Book of Suicides by Sunny Singh	Sunanda Mongia
27	Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India edited by Mushirul Hasan	Manoshi Mitra
28	Ismat: Her Life, Her Times edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Sadique	Jaya Banerji
29	Nadia, Captive of Hope by Fay Afaf Kanafam	Anuradha Kumar
31	Oona, Mountain Wind by Jasjit Mansingh	Manjula Padmanabhan
32	The Singer and the Song: Conversations with Women Musicians by C. S. Lakshmi	Manisha Chaudhry
33	Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger	Pradip Bhattacharya
35	Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India edited by Julia Leslie and Mary McGee	Manisha Sethi
36	Women in Early Indian Societies edited by Kumkum Roy	Geeta Arya
37	Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India by Martha Alter Chen	Seema Kazi
38	From Lahore to Lucknow. An Interview with Ram Advani	Nonica Datta
COVER: Smita Patil in a still from the film Debshishu (1985) by Utpalendu Chakraborty

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C 0 N T R I B U T 0 R S

SEEMA ALAVI is Fulbright Scholar in Residence University of Texas, USA.

GEETA ARYA teaches History at Zakir Husain College, Delhi University.

JAYA BANERJI is a writer and editor.

PRADIP BHATTACHARYA belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has written several books on the Mababbarata and papers on comparative mythology.

MANISHA CHAUDHRY is an independent consultant on Gender and the Media.

SHOMA CHAUDHURY is the Literary Editor of tehelka.com.

RANA DASGUPTA is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi.

NONICA DATTA teaches History at Miranda House, Delhi University. She has authored Forming an Identity: A Social History of the Jats (OUP, 1999).

JULIAN GIBBS is a freelance journalist based in London.

BODHISATTVA KAR is doing his Masters' at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

SEEMA KAZI is a freelance researcher who has worked on human rights with special reference to Muslim women for the past ten years.

ANURADHA KUMAR is Assistant Editor of Economic and Political Weekly.

MANOSHI MITRA is a gender specialist with the Asian Development Bank, Manila.

SUNANDA MONGIA teaches English at Benares University, Varanasi.

SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN is a journalist with The Hindu.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a writer and artist living in New Delhi.

SUBHRAHMANYA RAMNATH is a former Director, Programme Planning and Implementation, at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

AMULYA K. N. REDDY is former President of the International Energy Initiative. He has worked on renewable energy, and having recently retired from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was the co-recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize, 2000.

SHARITA CHEKESHA RHODES is a playwright and essayist based in Texas.

NILANJANA S. ROY is a freelance writer on Arts and Books based in New Delhi.

ORLANDA RUTHVEN is a co-ordinating a research project for the Institute of Development Policy Mangaement, University of Manchester on poor people's financial behaviour in three Delhi squatter settlements and two villages in the Allahabad District.

RANJANA SENGUPTA has worked as a journalist and is presently writing a biography of Delhi.

MANISHA SETHI is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

AWADHENDRA SHARAN Is a Fellow at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

PETER SINAI is a former Ambassador of India.

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. VI NOS. 5 & 6	40 PAGES	MAY JUNE
4	Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank	Uma Vasudev
5	The Scope of Happiness: A Personal Memoir by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Before Freedom: Nehru's Letters to his Sister edited by Nayantara Sahgal	H. Y. Sharada Prasad
7	Gandhi's Passion:Tbe Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi by Stanley Wolpert; Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy by Ronald J. Terchek; Gandhi: Freedom and Self-Rule edited by Anthony J. Parel	Sucheta Mahajan
9	Subhas: A Political Biography by Sitanshu Das	Sumit Chakravartty
11	1933, The Black Year. Testimonies from the Famine in the Ukraine edited by Georges Sokoloff, translated from the Ukrainian by Volodymyr Bojczuk, Kalena Houzar-Uhryn and Oleg Plioutch	Jean Jarques Marie
12	How It All Began: The Prison Novel by Nikolai Bukharin, translated from the Russian by George Shriver and introduced by Stephen F. Cohen	Arup Banerji
15	On My Country and the World by Mikhail S. Gorbachev	Shankar Sharan
17	Globalisation from Below, The Power of Solidarity by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costelo and Brendan Smith	Peter Waterman
19	Dostocvsky: The Miraculous Years 1865-71 by Joseph Frank	Shamlal
20	Tribute to R.K. Narayan	G.I.V. Prasad
21	The Last Jet-Engine Laugh by Ruchir Joshi	Anita Roy
23	An Anthropologist Among the Marxists and Other Essays by Ramachandra Guha	Amit Sengupta
24	Viramma: Life of a Dalit by Viramma, Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine, translated by Will Hobson	Majid H. Siddiqi
25	Forest Interludes: A Collection of Journals & Fiction by Anita Agnihotri	Pradeep Bhattacharya
27	Local Democracy and Development: People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in Kerala by T.M. Thomas Isaac and Richard W Franke	Niraja Gopal Jayal
28	The Seven Sisters of India: Tribal Worlds between Tibet and Burma by Aglaia Stirn and Peter van Ham	Amita Baviskar
30	Rites of Passage: Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India's East and Bangladesh by Sanjoy Hazarik	Debashiab Munshi
31	The Periphery Strikes Back: Challenges to the Nation-State in Assam and Nagaland by Udayon Misra	K.S. Subramanian
33	Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands by Satadru Sen	Aparna Vaidik
35	Jibananda Das: Short Fiction, 1931-33 translated from the Bengali by Gamam Chakravarty	Joe Winter
36	Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000 by Sunita Jain	Lakshmi Kannan
37	When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India by Geeta Kapur	Tapati Guha-Thakurta
COVER PAINTING: 'Kissa Aziz Aziza Ka' by Ghutam Muhaanrnad Sheikh, 1989, Oil on canvas, from the book When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India by Geeta Kapur. Back to the top

Contributors

ARUP BANERJI teaches Russian and West European History in the Department of History, Delhi University.

AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at Delhi University. She is the author of In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley.

PRADIP BHATTACHARYA belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has written several books on the Mahabharata and papers on comparative mythology.

SUMIT CHAKRAVARTTY is Editor, Mainstream.

NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and is the author of Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1999).

LAKSHMI KANNAN writes in English and Tamil, using the pen name Kaaveri for her writing in Tamil. She writes poetry, fiction and criticism and has also translated extensively from Tamil to English.

SUCHETA MAHAJAN teaches History at the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce and is the author of Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (Sage, 2000).

DEBASHISH MUNSHI teaches Management Communication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

G.I.V. PRASAD discusses life and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Novelist, poet, and critic, he has been published extensively in India and abroad. He also translates from Tamil and received the Katha Award for translation along with his wife, N. Kamala, in 1998.

H. Y SHARADA PRASAD worked in the Prime Ministers Office as Information Adviser to Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

ANITA ROY is an editor and writer, and is Head of Publishing at Dorling Kindersley India, New Delhi.

AMIT SENGUPTA is Assistant Editor at The Hindustan Times.

SHANKAR SHARAN has a Ph.D. in Soviet Political History. He is currently a researcher at the Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre, New Delhi.

K. S. SUBRAMANIAN is a former IAS officer and Director General of a Para-Statal Rural Development Training and Research Institute in the Northeast.

MAJID H. SIDDIQI teaches History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA is an art-historian and a Fellow in History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

APARNA VAIDIK is a research scholar working on the history of the Andaman Islands at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

UMA VASUDEV is a writer and filmmaker. She has also written two biographies of Indira Gandhi.

PETER WATERMAN is author of Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Cassell, London, 1998) and co-editor of Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Macmillan, London, 1999).

JOE WINTER is a translator and poet based in Kolkata.

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. VI NOS. 7 & 8	40 PAGES	JULY AUGUST 2001
4	Pakistan's Foreign Policy: A Reappraisal by Shahid M. Amin and From a Head, To a Head, Through a Head: The Secret Channel between the U. S and China through Pakistan by Fakir Syed Aijazuddin	G. Parthasarthy
6	Constitutional and Political Development of Pakistan by Hamid Khan	Muharak Ali
7	'The Partition, 1947' from Lahore, 1947 edited by Ahmad Salim and with an Introduction by Ian Talbot. An Extract	Muhammed Zafrullah Khan
8	The Partition of Memories: The Afterlife of the Division of India edited by Suvir Kaul	Rubina Saigol
11	Language, Education and Culture by Tariq Rahman	Alok Sinha
12	Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Text Translated by VG. Kiernan and Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz translated, with an Introduction and notes by V G. Kiernan	Mushirul Hasan
13	Amritsar to Lahore: Crossing the Border between India and Pakistan by Stephen Alter	Manisha Sethi
14	From a Kashmir Notebook. Conversations with Kashmiri women	Uma Chakravarty
17	Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency edited by Rita Manchanda	K. S. Subramanian
19	Chitra: Cities and Monuments of Eighteenth-Century India from French Archives by Jean-Marie Lafont	Narayani Gupta
20	India Through the Lens Photography 1840-1911 edited by Vidya Dehejia	Shuddhabrata Sengrrpta
23	A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: the I 'jdz-I-Arsalani (Persian letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier translated and with an Introduction by Muzaffar Alam and Seema Alavi	C. A. Bayly
24	Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India edited and commentary by Sussane Hocher Rudolph, Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota	Aparna Vaidik
26	The Picador Book of Cricket edited by Ramachandra Guha	Rajdeep Sardesai
27	Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth century England by David Underdown	Boria Majurmdar
28	Driving the Empire Back and Breaking the Stereotype-- commentaries on the film Lagaan	Boria Majumdar & Prem Chowdhury
30	Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity by Prem Chowdhry	Kathryn Hansen
32	Rows and Rows of Fences: Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema	Partha Chatterjee
34	Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India edited by Rachel Dwyer and Christopher Pinney	Sharmishtha Gooptu
35	The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature edited by Amit Chaudhuri	Nilanjana S. Roy
37	>Uncollected Prose and Poems: A. K. Ramanulan edited by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan and Keith Harrison	Nandini Lal
38	Arvind Das and the Working Classes in India. A reminisce	Peter Waterman
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: The Taj from the River at Agra by Lala Deen Dayal, ca.1884-88, from the book India through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911 edited by Vidya Dehejia Back to the top

C O N T R I B U T O R S

MUBARAK ALI is an historian and Editor of the quarterly Tarikh.

C. A. BAYLY is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial History at Cambridge University, author of Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars and Empire and Information.

UMA CHAKRAVARTY teaches history at Miranda House, Delhi University. She is associated with the democratic rights movement and the women's rights.

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is a filmmaker and writer on cinema.

PREM CHOWDHRY is a U. G. C. fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. She is the author of The Veiled Woman:Shiting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990 (1994) and Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity (2000).

NARAYANI GUPTA teaches at the Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi.

SHARMISHTHA GOOPTU is a Ph.D student working on the history of Bengali cinema.

KATHRYN HANSEN is Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas-Austin, where she teaches courses in Hindi literature, theatre, cinema, and gender studies.

MUSHIRUL HASAN is professor of Modern Indian History in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

MUHAMMED ZAEER ULLAH KHAN was Pakistan's first foreign minister and later rose to become the president of the General Assembly of the United Nations and president of the International court of justice at the Hague.

NANDINI LAL is a columnist and critic who has worked in journalism, advertising and publishing.

BORIA MAJUMDAR is a D.Phil Student in History working on the 'Social history of Cricket in India', at St. John's College Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship.

G. PARTHASARTHY is a diplomat who has served as India's Counsel General in Karachi and thereafter as High Comissioner of India to Pakistan.

NILANJANA S. ROY is a Delhi-based freelance writer on books and the arts.

RUBINA SAIGOL has written books and articles on nationalism, gender, education and human rights and the state. She is a rights activist based in Lahore.

RAJDEEP SARDESAI is Political Editor, New Delhi Television.

SUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary filmmaker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi

ALOK SINHA is presently Principal Secretary, Dairy Development in UP and is actively interested in South Asia, especially Pakistan.

K. S. SUBRAMANIAN is a former civil servant, is currently with UNICEF, New Delhi.

APARNA VAIDIK is a research scholar working on the history of Andaman Islands at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

PETER WATERMAN retired front the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, in 1998. He is the author of Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Cassell, 1998) and co-editor with Ronaldo Munck of Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Macmillan, 1999).

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. VI NOS. 9 & 10	40 PAGES	SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2001
4	Imagining Tagore: Rabindranath and the British Press (1912-1941) compiled and edited by Kalyan Kundu, Sakti Bhattacharya and Kalyan Sircar	Joe Winter
5	Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century by Suvir Kaul	Tabish Khair
6	Riot: A Novel by Shashi Tharoor	Giti Chandra
8	The Oxford History of Islam edited by John L. Esposito	Seema Alavi
9	Islam and Democracy by John L. Esposito and Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment by Aziz Ahmad	Michael Fisher
10	Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence by Bruce Lawrence	Irfan Ahmad
12	Essays on Islam and Indian History by Richard M. Eaton	Barbara D. Metcalfe
13	The Ulama of Farangi Mahall by Francis Robinson	Shajahan Madampat
14	God as Political, Philosopher: Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism by Kancha Illaiah	Bhagwan Das
15	Sikh History from Persian Sources edited by J.S. Grewal and Irfan Habib and Ranjit Singh: Maharaja of the Punjab by Khushwant Singh	Chetan Singh
16	The Sikhs by Khushwant Singh and Raghu Rai	Sanjeev Saith
18	The Jews of India by Benjamin J. Israel	Shalva Weil
19	Swami Vivekananda and the Modernisation of Hinduism edited by William Radice and The Ramakrisbna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement by Gwilyn Beckerleggee	Avijit Pathak
21	Religion and Ecology in India and South East Asia by David L. Gosling	Manoshi Mitra Das
22	Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky and Water edited by Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker	Aparna Vaidik
23	The Social Construction of Indian Forests edited by Roger Jeffery	Madhu Sarin
24	Splendid Plumage: Indian Birds by British Artists by Jagmohan Mahajan	Ranjit Lal
26	The World Commission on Dams-2000, Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision- Making	Amita Baviskar
27	Ecological Journeys: The Science and Politics of Conservation in India by Madhav Gadgil	Darryl D'Monte
28	Life in Plastic by Bob Edwards and Rachel Kellet	Bharati Chaturvedi
30	But it Still Moves: The Politics of Human Movement. An essay	Tabish Khair
32	The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys edited by Dom Moraes and The Picador Book of Journeys edited by Robyn Davidson	Amitava Kumar
34	Benaras from Within by Richard Lannoy and A Pilgrimage to Kashi: History, Mythology and Culture of the Strangest and Most Fascinating City in India by Miguel Andrea Gomez (a.k.a Gol)	John W. Bowles
36	Through the Green Door: Travels Among the Khasis by Nigel Jenkins	Deborah Sutton
37	Three-Quarters of a Footprint by Joe Roberts and Branch Line to Eternity by Bill Aitkin	Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta
38	Not So Little Magazines. A survey of the literary magazines in the subcontinent	Sudeep Sen
39	Feedback
*COVER: Painting of Darn Shikoh (wearing orange robe) seated before two Sufi saints (1635) from the book The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford University Press, 1999*

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C 0 N T R I B U T 0 R S

IRFAN AHMAD is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

SEEMA ALAVI is Associate Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at the Delhi University. She is the author of In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley.

JOHN H. BOWLES develops international art exhibitions for Radford University Art Museum in Virginia. He has lived in Benaras, and has contributed to various Asian journals, including Outlook, Orientations, and two forthcoming editions of Marg.

GITI CHANDRA teaches English at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

BHARATI CHATURVEDI is an environmentalist involved in waste management with the NGO Chintan.

BHAGWAN DAS is the author of Thus Spoke Ambedkar (Five Volumes) and Revival of Buddhism and the Role of Babasaheb Ambedkar. He is also the Regional Secretary of the Indian Buddhist Council.

MICHAEL H. FISHER is Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College, USA. He has published extensively about relations between Indians and Britons in India and Britain, most recently The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed in India, Ireland, and England (Oxford University Press, 1996, 2000).

TABISH KHAIR is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Copenhagen University and the author of Where Parallel Lines Meet and Babu Fictions.

AMITAVA KUMAR is the author of Passport Photos (Penguin-India and University of California Press). He is also a literary columnist for Tehelka.com.

RANJIT LAL is the author of Crow Chronicles and The Life and Times of Altu Faltu.

SHAJAHAN MADAMPAT is a columnist with Kalakaumudi, a leading Malayalam weekly and is working with The United States Library of Congress Field Office, American Centre, New Delhi.

BARBARA D. METCALFE teaches at the University of California, Davis. UMA

UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA is a civil servant based in Mumbai. MANOSHI MITRA DAS is a gender specialist with the Asian Development Bank, Manila.

DARRYL D' MONTE is a Mumbai-based environmental journalist and former Resident Editor of The Times of India.

AVIJIT PATHAK teaches Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

SANJEEV SAITH is a photographer and publisher based in New Delhi.

MADHU SARIN is a development professional who has been working on participatory natural resource management for over 20 years.

SUDEEP SEN's Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 1997) was awarded the Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA). He has published and edited 20 books, most recently, The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh (2001).

CHETAN SINGH teaches at the Department of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.

DEBORAH SUTTON is at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nerhu University.

APARNA VAIDIK is a Ph.D student at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

SHALVA WEIL is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and is a specialist on the Jews of India. She is the founding Chairperson (with Zubin Mehta as President) of the Israel- India Cultural Association.

JOE WINTER has translated Tagore's Gitanjali (Writers Workshop, Kolkata and Anvil Press, London) and Lipika, soon to be published by Macmillan India.

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VOL. V NOS. 11 & 12	40 PAGES	NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2001
4	True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey	Nilanjana S. Roy
5	Atonement by Ian McEwan	Indrajit Hazra
6	Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami	Mithu C. Banerji
7	India's Emerging Nuclear Posture: Between Recessed Deterrence and Ready Arsenal by Ashley J. Tellis	Manoj Joshi
8	War at the Top of the World: The Clash for the Mastery of Asia by Eric Margolis	Amitabh Mattoo
9	The Killer Instinct: Raids and Rescue Missions by Special Forces Worldwide and the Threat of Terrorism in the New Millennium by Major General O.P. Sabharwal	Kaushik Roy
10	In the Service of the Nation: Reminiscences by K.V Krishna Rao	Mohan Guruswamy
11	Kohima to Kashmir: On the Terrorist Trail by Prakash	Brij Bihari Pandey
12	Post-war Revolt of the Rural Poor in Bengal: Memoirs of a Communist Activist by Abani Lahiri and Defying Death: Struggles against Imperialism and Feudalism by Maya Gupta and Amit Kumar Gupta	Sumanta Banerjee
14	Decolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka by Nihal Perera, Post-colonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood by Sankaran Krishna, and Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective by Premchandra Athukorala and Sarath	P. Sahadevan
16	Veerappan: The Untold Story by Sunaad Raghuram	Bhaskar Ghose
17	The Scarlet Sword by H.E. Bates	Andrew Whitehead
18	Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism by Christopher Lasch, edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn	Rumina Sethi
19	Fallen Angels: the Sex Workers of South Asia edited by John Frederick and Thomas Kelly and Sex Salves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia by Louise Brown	Paul Boyce and Elizabeth Williams
21	Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India by Mala Sen	Ranjani Mazumdar
22	My Girlhood: An Autobiography by Taslima Nasrin	Shohini Ghosh
23	In Search of Freedom: An Unfinished Journey by Manikunatla Sen Translated from the Bangla by Stree	Gargi Chakaravartty
25	Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism by Tanika Sarkar	Charu Gupta
26	The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji	Malabika Bhattacharya
28	The Importance of being Wilde: the Sexual Castigation of Oscar Wilde. An Essay	Shelley Walia
29	Men: From Stone Age to Clone Age, the Science of Being Male by Bob Beale	Vatsala Kaul
30	Masculine Domination by Pierre Bourdieu	Sheena Jain
32	Sarai Reader 01:The Public Domain edited by Raqs Media Collective (Sarai) and Geert Lovink (SONM)	Rana Dasgupta
33	Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting Culture and the Public Interest by Davis Page and William Crawley	Kiran Karnik
35	People Unlike Us. The India That is Invisible	Harsh Sethi
36	The Architecture of Language by Naom Chomsky and Sounds and Words in Early Language Acquisition: A Bilingual Account by B. Lakshmi Rai	Chris Sinha
38	Language Death by David Crystal	Peggy Mohan
39	Hindi Nationalism: Tracts for the Times, 13 by Alok Rai	Ravikant
COVER: 'Chairs' by Anjolie Ela Menon front the catalogue India: A Historical Lila published by Osian's and distributed In Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd

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C O N T R I B U T O R S

MITHU C. BANERJI is a freelance journalist and columnist based in the UK. She is currently writing her first novel.

SAMANTA BANERJEE is a writer. He is the author. He is the author of Dangerous Outcastes: The Postitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal.

MALABIKA BHATTACHARYA teaches Spanish at the School of Foreign Languages, Government of India, and writes on Hispanic Literature.

PAUL BOYCE is a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

GARGI CHAKRAVARTTY is a Reader in the Department of History, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi.

RANA DASGUPTA is a writer based in Delhi. He can be contacted at rana_dasgupta@yahoo.com.

BHASKAR GHOSE is a writer and occasional reviewer of books.

SHOHINI GHOSH teaches Video & TV Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia.

CHARU GUPTA is a Reader in History at Motilal Nehru College (Eve.), University of Delhi. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar at SOAS and a South Asian Visiting Scholar at Oxford. Her forthcoming book is Sexuality, Obscenity, Community Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India, to be co-published by Permanent Black, Delhi and St Martin's Press, US.

MOHAN GURUSWAMY is a reader of books when not a policy analyst and management consultant. Increasingly the former than the latter.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is the author of the novel The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Ravi Dayal, 2000). He is Assistant Editor at the Hindustan Times.

SHEENA JAIN is a Reader in the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and is writing a dissertation on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice.

MANOJ JOSHI is Political Editor, The Times of India and the author of The Lost Rebellion.

RAVIKANT works with Sarai, and has co-edited Translating Partition (Kasha, 2001).

KIRAN KARNIK beads National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

VATSALA KAUL is a freelance writer waiting to stone all clone-age men.

AMITABH MATTOO is Professor of Disarmament Studies and Director, Core Group for the Study of National Security, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

PEGGY MOHAN has a Ph.D in Linguistics four the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has done a research project for the US National Science Foundation on language death in the case of Bhojpuri in Trinidad. She has taught Linguistics as well as Mass Communications, has worked as a producer of children's television programmes, as a cartoon animator, graphic artist, and now is a teacher of western music at the Vasant Valley School, New Delhi.

RANJANI MAZUMDAR is an independent filmmaker and scholar based in Delhi. Mazumdar is also a member of the Delhi-based women's film collective Mediastorm. Her publications and films focus on women's issues, popular culture, politics and everyday lives.

BRIJ BIHARI PANDEY is Politburo member, CPI (ML).

KAUSHIK ROY has done a Ph.D. titled `The Colonial Indian Army: Recruitment and Command Mechanism, 1859-1913', at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. At present he is working on a project on the history of the ordnance factories of India.

NILANJANA S. ROY is a Delhi-based writer on books and the arts.

P SAHADEVAN is Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

HARSH SETHI is Consulting Editor, Seminar.

RUMINA SETHI is Assistant Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

CHRIS SINHA is Professor of Language and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark. He has been a visiting fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1996 and was co-organizer (with Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Bhuvana Narasimhan) of a seminar on Cognition, Culture and Language in New Delhi, December 2000.

SHELLEY WALIA is Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

ELIZABETH WILLIAMS is a Ph.D candidate in Social Polity at the University of Plymouth.

ANDREW WHITEHEAD, a former BBC Delhi correspondent, presents `The World Today' on BBC World Service radio. He is conducting research into the tribal raid on Kashmir in 1947, and can be contacted by e-trail at: ANDYANU@BEEB.NET

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