Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues for 1999

Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues of 1999

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VOL. IV NO. 1 / 2	36 PAGES	JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1999
4	Darkness visible: the works of Ian McEwan	Indrajit Hazra
5	Bech at Bay by John Updike	Pankaj Mishra
6	England, England by Julian Barnes	Anita Roy
7	The Gabriel Club by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya	Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
8	Sir Vidia's Shadow: Friendsbip across Five Continents by Paul Theroux	Arvind N. Das
10	Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
11	When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan	Shobhana Bhattacharji
12	All About H. Haterr by G.V. Desani	Sunanda Mongia
13	Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai	Prashant Keshavamurthy
14	Oriental Scenery: Two Hundred Years of India's Artistic and Architectural Heritage by Antonio Martinelli and George Michell	Ira Pande
16	A Double Life: My Exciting Years in Theatre and Advertising by Alyque Padamsee and Arun Prabhu	Tara Sinha
17	Business Legends by Gita Piramal	Dwijendra Tripathi
18	The Corrupt Society: The Criminalization of India from Independence to the 1990s by Chandan Mitra	Harsh Sethi
19	The Politics of Crime and Corruption: A Former CBI Officer Speaks by N. K. Singh. An extract.	N. K. Singh
20	Words Like Freedom--The Memoirs of an Impoverished Indian Family: 1947-1997 by Siddarth Dube	Ashok Upadhyay
22	Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief by Gauri Viswanathan	Shelley Wali
24	Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan	Rumina Sethi
25	Global Pariahs. An essay.	Sham Lal
26	Structural Adjustment, Global Trade and the New Political Economy of Development by Biplab Dasgupta	Praveen Jha
27	Greening at the Grassroots: Alternate Forestry Strategies in India by Eva Cheung Robinson	N. C. Saxena
28	Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya by Vasant K. Saberwal	Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul
30	Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully	Amita Baviskar
31	Bullet for Bullet: My Life as a Police Officer by Julio Ribeiro	Keki N. Daruwalla
32	Birds of Passage by Kiran Doshi	Arundhati Ghose
33	Stillborn by Rohini Nilekani	Saumya Kavita Srinivasan
34	The Enquire Dictionary: Ideas, Issues, Innovations by T. J. S. George	Surjit Mansingh

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AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at Delhi University. She has published In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Namada Valley.

SHOBHANA BHATTACHARJI is Reader in English, Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi and Associate Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

MINOTI CHAKRAVARTY-KAUL is Senior Reader in Economics, Lady Sriram College, New Delhi and Professor, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

KEKI N. DARUWALLA is a poet. He was a member of the Indian Police Service.

ARUNDHATI GHOSE was a member of the Indian Foreign Service and is now a Member of the Union Public Service Commission.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is a journalist working with The Asian Age, New Delhi.

PRAVEEN JHA teaches at the Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

PRASHANT KESHAVAMURTHY is currently doing his MPhil at Delhi University

SURJIT MANSINGH is Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

PANKAJ MISHRA is a writer based in Shimla and New Delhi. He is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana.

SUNANDA MONGIA teaches English at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, and is author of a collection of short stories entitled Cryptozones.

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She published The Hyoid Bone, a collection of poems in 1993 and Technobrat in 1997.

IRA PANDE is an editorial consultant to a publishing company in New Delhi.

ANITA ROY is a senior editor at Dorling Kindersley, a publishing firm.

N. C. SAXENA is Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Rural Development. His latest books on forestry include Forests, People and Profit and The Saga of Participatory Forest Management in India.

HARSH SETHI is Consulting Editor, Seminar, New Delhi. His latest book is Voluntary Action and Social Change.

RUMINA SETHI is Reader, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

TARA SINHA was head of Clarion Advertising and founded Tara Sinha Associates.

SAUMYA KAVITA SRINIVASAN is a post-graduate student at the Department of Anatomy, UCMS, University of Delhi.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI pioneered the study of Business History at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His publications include Business Houses of Western India and Business and Politics in India-A Historical Perspective.

ASHOK UPADHYAY is Deputy Editor, Business India, Mumbai. He has written on agrarian India in the Journal of Peasant Studies.

SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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VOL. IV NO. 3 & 4	36 PAGES	MARCH-APRIL 1999
4	Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and India by Ramachandra Guha	K. Suresh Singh
5	Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India by Ajay Skaria	Prathama Banerjee
7	Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar 1854-1996 by Nandini Sundar	Amita Baviskar
8	Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs by Christopher Pinney	Ranjana Sengupta
11	Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries and Writings of Sanjoy Ghose	Gopalkrishna Gandhi
12	Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jutewallahs and the Landscape of Empire by Gordon T. Stewart	Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
14	Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India by C. A. Bayly	Majid Siddiqi
15	The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal by Ranabir Samaddar	D. Bandyopadhyay
16	Madam Bovary. An essay	Anil Ramdas
18	The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie	Sukanta Chaudhuri
20	An Equal Music by Vikram Seth	Giti Chandra
21	The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha	Devangshu Datta
22	English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin	Nilanjana S. Roy
23	Listening Now by Anjana Appachana	Purabi Panwar
24	Lahore diary: before and beyond bus diplomacy	Uma Chakravarti
27	The Last Spring.- The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals by Abraham Eraly	Saleem Kidwai
28	Islam by Azra Kidwai	Seema Alavi
29	The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994-97 by Lieutenant GeneralPrem Kamal Matinuddin	Shankar Jha
30	A Thousand Suns by Dominique Lapierre	Janaki B. Kremmer
32	Jewish Exile in India 1933-1945 edited by Anil Bhatti and Johannes H. Voight	Haimanti Roy
33	Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina	Shobhit Mahajan
34	Dance of India: Perspectives and Prospects edited by David Waterhouse	Radhika Jha

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

D. BANDYOPADHYAY is a retired Civil Servant who authored Operation Barga in West Bengal. His publications include Indra Lohar and the Due Process of Law.

PRATHAMA BANERJEE has done her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-Writing in Colonial Bengal".

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

SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

UMA CHAKRAVARTI teaches history at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has written on Gender, Caste and Labour. Her latest book is Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai.

GITI CHANDRA teaches English at St. Stephens College, Delhi. She is currently doing her PhD at Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A.

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

DEVANGSHU DATTA is a journalist with The Business Standard, New Delhi.

GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI has served government in administrative and diplomatic capacities over the last three decades.

PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist. He is the author of several books including Kashmir 1947 Rival Versions of History.

RADHIKA JHA is a journalist with The Hindustan Times, New Delhi.

SALEEM KIDWAI is a historian presently engaged in writing a book on Begum Akhtar.

JANAKI B. KREMMER is a journalist with Outlook, New Delhi.

SHOBHIT MAHAJAN is an astrophysicist and cosmologist who teaches in the Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi.

PURABI PANWAR is an academic and critic based in New Delhi.

ANIL RAMDAS is a writer and media personality based in Amsterdam.

HAIMANTI ROY is a student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

NILANJANA S. ROY is a journalist with Outlook, New Delhi.

RANJANA SENGUPTA is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi.

MAJID SIDDIQI is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

K. SURESH SINGH is a former Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of India and currently Rajeev Gandhi Professor on Protective Discrimination at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He is the author of The Dust Storm and Hanging Mist and General Editor of the multi-volume Peoples of India Series.

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VOL. IV NOS. 5 / 6	36 PAGES	MAY-JUNE 1999
4	The Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in the Nineties by Manoj Joshi	Prem Shankar Jha
5	Pakistan Leadership Challengers by Lt.-General Jahan Dad Khan	Arvind N. Das
7	Virile Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit	Mario Corona
8	Vishnu on Freud's Desk: A Reader on Psychoanalysis and Hinduism edited by T.G. Vaidyanathan and Jeffrey J. Kripal	Shiv Kumar Srinivasan
10	Social Suffering edited by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das & Margaret Lock	Rabindra Ray
11	A World to Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto edited by Prakash Karat	Dipankar Bhattacharya
14	The Dispossessed: Victims of Development in Asia by Vinod Raina, Aditi Chowdhury & Sumit Chowdhury	Pamela Philipose
15	Ecology, Climate & Empire: The Indian Legacy in Global Environmental History 1400-1940 by Richard H. Grove	Alok Sinha
15	Why Post-colonialism hates revolutions. An essay	Tabish Khair
17	Subaltern Studies X by Gautam Bhadra, Gyan Prakash and Susie Tharu	Prathama Banerjee
19	The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson	Shelley Walia
20	The Sikhs by Patwant Singh	Amrik Singh
22	The Essential Works of Raja Rammohan Roy edited by Bruse Carlisle Robertson	Nandini Chatterjee
24	Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale	Pankaj Mishra
25	The HarperCollins Book of Oriya Short Stories translated and edited by K.K. Mohapatra, Leelawati Mohapatra & Sudhansu Mohanty	Devdas Chhotray
27	Going Home by Lakshmi Kannan	Christine Gomez
28	Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	Nilanjana S. Roy
29	Amita: No Holds Barred by Amita Malik	Shohini Ghosh
32	River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh by Raghubir Singh	H. Y. Sharada Prasad
34	In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie	Meghant Sudan
*COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Fishermen, Calicut, Kerala by RAGHUBIR SINGH from the book River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh* published by Phaidon Press Limited**

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PRATHAMA BANERJEE has done her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-Writing in Colonial Bengal".

DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).

NANDINI CHATTERJEE studies at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

DEVDAS CHHOTRAY is a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He is also a writer and poet in Oriya.

SHOHINI GHOSH is a Reader, Video &Television Production at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islaima, New Delhi.

CHRISTINE GOMEZ is a Reader in English, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirapalli.

PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist based in New Delhi. He is the author of several books including Kashmir 1947: Rival Versions of History.

TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Copenhagen. He has published several books of poetry and the novel Angel in Pyjamas.

PANKAJ MISHRA is a writer based in New Delhi and Simla. He is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana.

PAMELA PHILIPOSE is a journalist with The Indian Express, New Delhi

H.Y SHARADA PRASAD was Information Advisor to the Prime Minister and is now a columnist.

RABINDRA RAY teaches Sociology in the Delhi School of Economics. He has published a book on Naxalites, several volumes of poetry and has written a tract Aditya Mimansa in Sanskrit.

ALOK SINHA is a member of the Indian Administrative Service.

AMRIK SINGH is an educationist who for many years edited The Indian Book Chronicle.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

MEGHANT SUDAN is a student of Philosophy in Delhi University.

SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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VOL. IV NO. 7 / 8	36 PAGES	JULY - AUGUST 1999
COVER PAINTING: 'Mankind - 2194 - The last submission to aggression' by Ved Nayar, 1994, Gouache on paper, from the book Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, published by Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi.
4	Independent India: The First Fifty Years edited by Hiranmay Karlekar Pradip	Kumar Bose
5	A shattered Dream: Understanding Pakistan's Underdevelopment by Ghulam Kibria	Arvind N. Das
8	A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections by Brian Cloughley	Kaushik Roy
9	Night and Day: A Diary by Mira Markovic	Roberta Valle
10	All quiet on the Eastern front. An essay on Indian war literature	Pratik Kanjilal
12	The olive oil business. An essay and tribute to the legacy of Mario Puzo	Ruchir Joshi
14	Hannibal by Thomas Harris	Sandipan Deb
15	Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willeman [Full Review]	Chandan Mitra
16	Barbie Culture by Mary E. Rogers	Vatsala Kaul
17	The Stream Within: Stories by Bengali Women translated and edited by Swati Ganguly and Sarmishtha Dutta Ray	Nandini Lal
18	The Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond by Jhumpa Lahiri	Shoma Chaudhury
20	Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai	Nilanjana S. Roy
21	The Craft of the Essay: A Ved Mehta Reader edited by Ved Mehta	Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan
22	Notebook of a Footsoldier by Randhir Khare	Mitali Saran
23	The Last Post by Narendra Pani	Meera Sagar
24	Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer	Shivaji Sondhi
26	Policing a Democracy: A Comparative Study of India and the US by R. K. Raghavan	K. S. Ssbramanian
28	Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian and Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500 - 1800 edited by Om Prakash and Denys Lombard	Rabid Nair
30	The Arya Samaj in Punjab Politics by Veena Dua	Swami Agnivesh
31	I Follow After: An Autobiography by Lakshmibai Tilak	Ashley Tellis
32	Seven Wonders of the Cosmos by Jayant V. Narlikar	David L. Gosling
33	Travels with the Fish by C.Y Gopinath and Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God by Jonah Black	Nikesh Sinha
34	Carry in the Crown by Shrabani Basu	Peter McManus

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SWAMI AGNIVESH is an Arya Samaj leader and head of the Campaign Against Bonded Labour.

PRADIP KUMAR BOSE is Professor of Sociology at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

SHOMA CHAUDHURY is a correspondent at Outlook, New Delhi.

SANDIPAN DEB is Deputy Editor Outlook and Editor, Intelligent Investor.

DAVID L. GOSLING has taught Physics at the University of Delhi and is currently at the University of Cambridge at Clare Hall.

RUCHIR JOSHI is a film-maker and writer based in New Delhi.

PRATIK KANJILAL is Senior Assistant Editor at the Indian Express, New Delhi.

VATSALA KAUL is Deputy Editor of Teens Today, New Delhi.

NANDINI LAL has worked in advertising, journalism and publishing, She is now a freelance writer.

PETER MCMANUS is a freelance journalist based in Cambridge, UK.

CHANDAN MITRA is the editor and publisher of The Pioneer.

RAHUL NAIR is doing an M.Phil. in Modern Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

KAUSHIK ROY studies at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

MEERA SAGAR is doing her M.Phil in English at Delhi University.

MITALI SARAN is a freelance writer based in New Delhi and Switzerland.

NIKESH SINHA is Vice President (Marketing) at Asia-Pacific Communication Associates Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

SIDDHARTHA SIVARAMAKRISHNAN is pursuing a post-graduate degree in Law at Oxford University

SHIVAJI SONDHI is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University.

K.S. SUBRAMANIAN retired from the Indian Police Service. He was Director General, State Institute of Public Administration Government of Tripura.

ASHLEY TELLIS has completed a PhD. thesis on Irish Women's Literature and teaches English at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University

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