Image 1: Akwesasne territory. Source: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Born on US soil to citizen parents, I applied for my first passport at age 12, when my grandma…
Sanjaya Baru’s Secession of the Successful examines 200 years of Indian migration with a focus on the drivers and impacts of the recent exodus of the country’s elite.…
We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the…
1852 From the untroduction to The Literary Life of FvS Three brothers:
Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour examines the rise of contemporary far-right movements, which he describes as neoliberalism that has been radicalised along ethno-nationalist and protectionist l…
Caste: A Global Story by Suraj Yengde explores caste from both a Dalit and global perspective, critiquing caste’s enduring structures and calling for justice in India and beyond.…
I like this sentence, but think it has to be cut because it really has no actual content in the context—though I am a bit grumpy to have…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
Ajoy Kumar Ghosh and Ho Chi Minh are the smoking communists, with Congress Socialist, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wistfully concerned for their health. 🙂 Ho Chi Minh visited Calcutta,…
IMG-20250713-WA0000Download Many thanks to Amitava Ganguly, Abhijit Roy and translator Shuddhayan Chatterjee.
Introduction In the Ancient texts of the Vedas and Upanishads, Hindu cosmological thought advocates the theory of Naad-Brahman, translated as the Sound of Brahman. It posits that the…
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx self clarification through thinking in diaries and lettersDownload
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
John Hutnyk Tomar naam amar naam Vietnam Vietnam Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinemaDownload
I recently had reason to request a debunking text from someone and it came today. In return I sent my pennyworth about a long interest in rumour after…
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA Edited by Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar Just got this to read and it looks totally superb. Here is the cover…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hailing-the-state Ilana Gershon: Why did you decide to call your book, Hailing the State? What becomes available for analysis when you understand protest as am…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
Each day weaves its own tale, and no two days unfold alike in the Mandal Valley. The Mandal Valley is like any central Himalayan valley, rich and teeming…
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….