VOL. II NO. 1 | FEBRUARY 1996 | |
4 | The Colours of Violence by Sudhir Kakar | Dileep Padgaonkar |
6 | Murmur in a dream. A new introduction to The Siege Within | M. J. Akbar |
8 | Cross Channel by Julian Barnes | S. Prasannarajan |
10 | The pathology of globalization. A review article | Sham Lal |
13 | Pulls and pressures. An overview of current trends in Marathi literature | Gangadhar Gadgil |
15 | The Road Ahead by Bill Gates | Tilak Sarkar |
16 | Nimnavargiya Prasang Bhag I edited by Shahid Amin and Gyanendra Pandey | Arvind N. Das |
18 | Resisting the colonels of Disney. An interview with Costa-Gavras | Nathan Gardels |
20 | Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Coven India by Pankaj Mishra | Ira Pande |
21 | The idea of civil society. An essay | Andre Beteille |
23 | The Politics of Labour Under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur 1928-1939 by Dilip Simeon | Mahesh Rangarajan |
24 | The Western Canon by Harold Bloom | Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr |
26 | Building the Railways of the Raj by Ian J. Kerr; Exploring Indian Railways by Bill Aitken | Abu Abraham |
27 | Cuba and the Night by Pica Iyer | Debashish Munshi |
28 | Yuvakatha Vol. I and II edited by Geeta Dharmarajan | Subhadra Sen Gupta |
29 | Winds of Change by Himanshu P. Ray | K. M. Shrimali |
31 | Lennon: A Definitive Biography by Ray Coleman | Peter McManus |
32 | Book bound. An interview with a bibliophile | Minakshi Raja |
33 | Under the knife. An overview of the works of Rudyard Kipling published in The Illustrated London News of February 17, 1923 | Philip Guedalla |
35 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II NO. 2 | MARCH 1996 | |
4 | Kashmir 1947: Rival Versions of History by Prem Shankar Jha | Ajit Bhattacharjea |
6 | Making it New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi poetry by E.V. Ramakrishnan | M. Mukundan |
7 | Nehru to the Nineties edited by James Manor | T.C.A. Rangachari |
8 | Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India by Peter van der Veer | Shahid Amin |
9 | An Unequal Treaty: World Trading Order After GATT by Muchkund Dubey | Lalit Sharma |
13 | Second Thoughts by Shobha De | Sagarika Ghose |
14 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Rukmuni Bhaya Nair |
15 | The Writer's Craft. An Interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Bahgat Elandi, Adel Rifaat and Miguel Labarca |
17 | Images and Imagination: Five Contemporary Artists of India by Geeti Sen | Dileep Padgaonkar |
18 | Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise by Ronald Bergan | Partha Chatterjee |
20 | India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600-1800 by Kate Teltscher | Ira Pande |
21 | The Unhappy Consciousness. Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India by Sudipta Kaviraj | Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
22 | Society and Ideology in India: Essays in Honour of Professor R. S. Sharma edited by D. N. Jha | Arvind N. Das |
24 | Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals by Ernest Gellner | Shelley Walia |
25 | Working With Zia. Pakistan's Power Politics 1977-88 by Gen. Khalid Mahmud Arif | Sunil Narula |
26 | Pandit Krishnarao Shankar Pandit by L. K. Pandit, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan by Manjari Sinha, Ustad Amir Khan by A.S. Paintal, Baba Allauddin Khan by Ashish Khokar | S. Kalidas |
28 | In the Belly of the River: Tribal conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley, by Amita Baviskar | Sujata Patel |
29 | Book Fare. A report on the recently concluded World Book Fair in New Delhi. | Prodyut Bora |
31 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II
NO. 3 | APRIL 1996 | |
4 | Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-Siecle by Lewis Lapharn | Sham Lal |
6 | The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester | S. Prasannarajan |
7 | The Crooked Line by Ismat Chughtai | Meenakshi Mukherjee |
9 | Hot Death, Cold Soup by Manjula Padmanabhan | Namita Gokhale |
I0 | Anita and Me by Meera Syal | Antara Dev Sen |
11 | Guru Dutt. A Life in Cinema by Nasreen Munni Kabir | Partha Chatterjee |
13 | Kieslowski on Kieslowski edited by Danusia Stok | Ranjini Rajagopal |
14 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: India's Iron Man by B. Krishna | Harish Khare |
16 | The Trial of Bhagat Singh: Politics of Justice by A. G. Noorani | Danial Latifi |
18 | Fencing The Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces, 1860-1914 by Mahesh Rangarajan | Darryl D'Monte |
20 | Fictions of Feminist Ethnography by Kamala Visweswaran | Urvashi Butalia |
21 | Fevers, delirium and discovery: an extract from Amitav Ghosh's new novel The Calcutta Chromosome | |
23 | Short Stones: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar translated and edited by Ramchandra Sharma | Makarand Paranjape |
24 | Rogue Trader by Nick Leeson with Edward Whitley | Nikesh Sinha |
25 | The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate by Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz | Kanti Bajpai |
27 | A new way of thinking. An article on how the concept of Complexity has contributed to scientific enquiry | Edgar Morin |
29 | Dedicated to Indology: a profile of two leading publishers of Indological books | Prodyut Bora |
31 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II
NO. 4 | MAY 1996 | |
4 | Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity edited by Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Arvind N. Das |
6 | Edwina and Nehru by Catherine Clement, translated from French by Annie Mathews and Nandita Agarwal | Raj Chatterjee |
7 | A conversation with Catherine Clement | Dileep Padgaonkar |
8 | Insecurity inevitable | Sham Lal |
9 | The East is East and the West is West by Nirad C. Chaudhuri, compiled and edited by Dhruva N. Chaudhuri | Eunice de Souza |
10 | The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh | S. Prasannarajan |
12 | Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson | Sabyasachi Bhattacharya |
14 | Muslim Festivals in India and Other Essays by Garcin de Tassy, translated from French and edited by M. Waseem | Shahid Amin |
16 | A Companion to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, general editor: P.J.O. Taylor | Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
17 | After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Colonial Displacements edited by Guyana Parakeet | Shelley Walia |
18 | Economy and Business in India by S.L. Rao | Prem Shankar Jha |
19 | Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India by Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha | Darryl D'Monte |
20 | Village Voices, Forest Choices: Joint Forest Management in India edited by Mark Poffenberger and Betsy McGean | Nandini Sundar |
22 | Age and Guile beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut by P.J. O'Rourke | Peter McManus |
23 | Primary Colours by Anonymous | Bharat Bhushan |
24 | Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French | Bill Aitken |
25 | Neermai by Na Muthuswamy, translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom Parwaaz: Urdu Short Stories by Women translated and edited by Syeda S. Hameed and Sughra Mehdi | Subhadra Sengupta |
26 | The Impact of Television Advertising on Children by Namita Unnikrishnan and Shailaja Bajpai | Sevanti Ninan |
27 | Euphony: Indian Classical Music by L. Subramaniam and Viji Subramaniam | Raghava S. Menon |
28 | Making a Difference by K.J. Alphons | Srivatsa Krishna |
29 | The Winds of Change | Sridhar Balan |
31 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II NO. 5 | | JUNE - JULY 1996 |
4 | India: Problems of Governance by Bhabani Sen Gupta | Rajni Kothari |
6 | The Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalization by Amit Bhaduri and Deepak Nayyar | Arvind N. Das |
9 | Wordsmiths edited by Meenakshi Sharma | Eunice de Souza |
10 | A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe | Rukmini Bhaya Nair |
11 | The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer | |
12 | A dialogue with Regis Debray | Dileep Padgaonkar |
14 | Faith and Credit: The World Bank's Secular Empire by Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli | Nauman Naqvi |
16 | Indian Society through Personal Writings by M.N. Srinivas | Amita Baviskar |
18 | A conversation with Sir Isaiah Berlin | Jyotirmoy Sharma |
19 | Slowness by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher | Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr. |
20 | A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Cemetery: Scenes From A Sri Lankan Life by Carl Muller | Aravinda D'sa |
21 | River beneath the River by Alu Basu | Sagarika Ghose |
22 | I, Phoolan Devi: An Extract | |
24 | The Royal Bequest: Art Treasures of the Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery edited by Saryu Doshi | Geeti Sen |
26 | End of a Trail: the Cheetah in India by Divyabhanusinh | Bittu Sahgal |
27 | Caste as Woman by Vrinda Nabar | Shireen Vakil |
28 | Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 186S- 1915 by Antoinette Burton | Malavika Karlekar |
29 | Gods, Men and Territory: Society and Culture in the Katmandu Valley by Anne Vergati | S.D. Muni |
30 | Sexing the Millennium by Linda Grant | Rashida Ghadiali |
31 | Query of the Road by Akhtar-ul-Iman, translated from Urdu by Baidar Bakht | Faizal Jaffri |
32 | Summer Rain: Three Decades of Poetry by K. Satchidanandan | P.P. Raveendran |
33 | Satyajit Ray: Beyond the Frame by Surabhi Banerjee | Indrani Mazumdar |
35 | Indian Miniature Painting by Anjan Chakraverty | Subashini Aryan |
36 | This Year in Jerusalem by Mordecai Richler | Ranjini Rajagopal |
37 | Sketches in the Sand by Tushar Bhatt | Ashoke Chatterjee |
39 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II NO. 6 | AUGUST 1996 | |
4 | Empire: The British Imperial Experience by Denis Judd | Barun De |
6 | So Many Cinemas: The Motion Picture in India by B.D. Garga | Dileep Padgaonkar |
8 | Story of an Escape by Surjit Singh Barnala | Sunil Narula |
9 | Religion, Religiosity and Communalism edited by Praful Bidwai, Harbans Mukhia and Achin Vanaik | Swapan Dasgupta |
10 | Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Cristopher Ondaatje, A People of Migrants: Ethnicity, State and Religion in Karachi by Oskar Verkaaike | Arvind N. Das |
13 | Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal Edited by Partha Chatterjee | Mariam Dossal |
14 | Nuclear Rivalry and International Order edited by Jorn Gjelstad and Olav Njolstad | Achin Vanaik |
16 | Testing Times: Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban by Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik | C. Raja Mohan |
17 | Vox: New Indian Fiction edited by Jeet Thayil | Ira Pande |
18 | The Crow Chronicles by Ranjit Lal | Manjula Padmanabhan |
20 | 38 Bahadurabad by Zeeba Sadiq | Namita Gokhale |
21 | Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta | Gouri Salvi |
22 | The Oxford Book of London edited by Paul Bailey | Andrew Whitehead |
23 | Unfinished Innings by Madhav Godbole | Bhaskar Ghose |
24 | The Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer by Sujit Mukherjee | M.J. Akbar |
25 | Diaries, delirium and discourse. From the journal of Kamalakanta Chakravarti | Partha Chatterjee |
28 | The Problem with Science by Robin Dunbar, The Lost World by Michael Crichton | Shobit Mahajan |
31 | New and forthcoming titles. |
VOL. II NO. 7 | | SEPTEMBER 1996 |
4 | Thomas Mann by Ronald Hayman | Sham Lal |
5 | Liberty Against the Law by Christopher Hill | Arvind N. Das |
7 | Don't Marry Me to a Plowman! by Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery | Veena Das |
8 | Khizr Tiwana, The Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India by Ian Talbot | Indivar Kamtekar |
9 | The Mind of the Indian Civil Service by Clive Dewey | John Lall |
11 | Lineages of the Present by Aijaz Ahmad | Debashish Munshi |
12 | Looking through a prism of the past | Malavika Karlekar |
14 | The Ghost Road by Pat Barker Antara | Dev Sen |
15 | Hotel Moenjedaro and Other Stories by Ghulam Abbas and translated by Khalid Hasan | Sagarika Ghose |
16 | To the Wedding by John Berger | GJV Prasad |
17 | A Himalayan Love Story by Namita Gokhale | Mrinal Pande |
18 | Pandavpuram by Sethu, translated by Prema Jayakumar | Lakshmi Kannan |
19 | Kings, Queens & Lovers by Achala Moulik | Ashok Malik |
20 | Literary Trails by Bill Aitken | Peter McManus |
21 | A handful of cumin. An extracts from All But Alone, a collection of poems | Ashok Vajpeyi |
23 | Shastriya Sangita and the Music Culture of Bengal through the Ages by Chhaya Chatterjee | Raghava R. Menon |
24 | Neither saints nor scissors. An essay on the relationship between cinema, culture and censorship | Shyam Benegal |
26 | The Cult at the End of the World: The Incredible Story of Aum by David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall | Brij Tankha |
28 | Designer literature: A do-it-yourself guide | Gautam Bhatia |
31 | New and forthcoming titles and censorship | Shyam Benegal |
VOL. II NO. 8 | OCTOBER 1996 | |
4 | Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen | Ian Hacking |
7 | The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India 1934-1951 by Amit Kumar Gupta | Arindam Sen |
8 | The Signs of our Times: The IIC Quarterly edited by Geeti Sen | Dileep Padgaonkar |
10 | Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context edited by Harish Trivedi and Meenakshi Mukherjee | Ira Pande |
11 | Seven Sixes are Forty-Three by Kiran Nagarkar, translated from the Marathi by Shubha Slee | Ranjit Hoskote |
12 | Why I am Not a Hindu: A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Political Economy, Culture and Philosophy by Kancha Ilaiah | Rajdeep Sardesai |
13 | Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building and Reconciliation in South Asia edited by Michael Krepon and Amit Sevak | J. N. Dixit |
15 | A Contemplative Tiger. A tribute to R.K Narayan | Range Rao |
20 | New Writing 5: An Anthology edited by Christopher Hope and Peter Porter | Lakshmi Kannan |
21 | Wych Stories by Kusum Sawhney | Nisha Jaishankar |
22 | Desert Places by Robyn Davidson | Sonia Jabber |
24 | Night Train and Other Stories by Sathya Saran Mridula | Nath Chakraborty |
25 | The Penguin Book of Modern Sri Lankan Stories edited by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke | Biswadeep Ghosh |
26 | Between being and nothingness. An extract from Ram Kumar, A Journey Within edited by Gagan Gill | Sham Lal |
28 | The Grand Indian Tour: Travels and Sketches of Emily Eden by Jagmohan Mahajan | John Lall |
29 | New and forthcoming titles | |
31 | Second glance. Reviews of reviews |
VOL. II NO. 9 | | NOVEMBER 1996 |
4 | The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross | Prabhat Patnaik |
6 | My South Block Years: Memoirs of a Foreign Secretary by J.N. Dixit | Mani Shankar Aiyar |
7 | Andre Malraux's India | Dileep Padgaonkar |
9 | Malraux meets Jawaharlal Nehru. An extract from The Meaning of India | Raja Rao |
12 | Ethnicity in the Caribbean edited by Gert Oostinde | Arvind N. Das |
13 | Caste: Its Twentieth Century Avatar edited and introduced by M.N. Srinivas | Kancha Isaiah |
15 | Plants in Indian Temple Art by Shakti M. Gupta | Y. Krishan |
16 | Bombay: A Contemporary Account of Mumbai by Namas Bhojani and Arun Katiyar | Rajdeep Sardesai |
18 | Tamarind Mem: A Novel by Anita Rau Badami | Subhadra Sengupta |
19 | The River Churning: A Partition Novel by Jyotirmoyee Devi, translated from the Bengali by Enakshi Chatterjee | Andrew Whitehead |
20 | The Mahabharatha I & II: A Child's View by Samhita Arni | Vatsala Kaul |
21 | The Great Golden Legend of the Mahabharta, Vols. I & II by Maggi Lidchi Grassi | Shashi Deshpande |
22 | Dropping Names by Manohar Malgonkar | Raj Chatterjee |
23 | Thunderwith, The Climb by Libby Hathorn | Prachi Deshpande |
24 | The Hundred Luminaries of Hindi Cinema by Dinesh Raheja and Jitendra Kothari | Chandan Mitra |
26 | National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema by Sumita S. Chakravarty | Vishnu Khare |
28 | Paperback preview. A guide to books published recently in Britain | Sarah Broadhurst |
29 | Beloved Empress: Mumtaz Mahal by Nina Epton | Akhilesh Mittal |
31 | New and forthcoming titles |
VOL. II NO. 10 | | DECEMBER 1996 |
4 | The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland and England by Michael H. Fisher | Arvind N. Das |
7 | The Development of Underdevelopment: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank edited by Sing C. Chew and Robert E. Denemark | Jayati Ghosh |
8 | The Indian Cabinet: A Study in Governance by P.A. Pai Panandikar and Ajay K. Mehra | Inder Malhotra |
10 | The Nation, the State and Indian Identity edited by Madhusree Dutta, Flavia Agnes and Neera Adarkar | Harsh Sethi |
11 | Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History by Janaki Nair, Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India by Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman | Malavika Karlekar |
13 | It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow | Pankaj Mishra |
14 | The Poison Tree: Three Novellas by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, translated from the Bengali by Marian Maddern and S. N. Mukherjee | Nabaneeta Dev Sen |
16 | Bharatipura by U.R. Anantha Murthy, translated from the Kannada by P. Sreenivasa Rao | Lakshmi Kannan |
18 | Toys of Glass by Martin Booth | Siddharth Deb |
19 | An Angel in Pyjamas by Tabish Khair | Sagarika Ghose |
20 | A Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai | Bhaskar Ghose |
21 | The Non Resident Indian and Other Stories by Sanjay Nigam | Aditya Sinha |
22 | Shakespeare and Company, the story of a book-store | Dileep Padgaonkar |
23 | Of reviewers, referees and publishers | T. N. Madan |
26 | Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys | Peter McManus |
27 | Strangers in the Night: Two Novellas by Ruskin Bond | Ashok Malik |
28 | A larger than life threat. An extract from Slow Murder: The Deadly Story of Vehicular Pollution in India | Anju Sharma and Anumita Roychowdhury |
31 | New and forthcoming titles |