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New Arrivals in English under different Subject Headings

History

India’s Islamic Traditions 711-1750/ Edited by Richard M. Eaton. – New Delhi: OUP, 2006.

Islam, South Asia, and The West/ Francis Robinson. – New Delhi: OUP, 2007.

Islamic revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900/ Barbara Daly Metcalf. – New Delhi: OUP, 2002.

Congress & the raj: facets of the Indian Struggle 1917-47/ Edited by D.A.Low. – New Delhi: UP, 2004.

Developing India: an intellectual and social history 1930-50/ Benjamin Zachariah. – New Delhi: OUP,2005.

Dalit Studies/ Caste/ Minorities

Islamic Contestations: essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan/ Barbara D. Metcalf. – New Delhi: OUP, 2006.

Desperately seeking paradise: journey of a skeptical Muslim/ Ziauddin Sardar. – London: GrantaBooks,2004.

Gender studies/ Feminism

En-gendering individuals: the language of re-forming in early twentieth century Keralam/ J.Devika.–NewDelhi:OrientLongman,2007.

 

Literature

The fragrance of Guava: conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.–London:faberandfaber1988.

Politics/Social Sciences

Behind the veil: dalit women in panchayati raj/ Sunita Dhaka and Rajbir S. Dhaka. – Delhi: AbhijeetPublications,2005.

Health/ Medicine

The tropics and the traveling gaze: India, landscape and science 1800-1856/ David Arnold. – Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005.

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Contents of Journals

The Book Review

Vol.XXXI No.6 June

Upinder Singh Between the Empires: Society in India 300BCE to 400 CE / Edited by Patrick Olivelle

Amiya Kumar Baghi The scandle of empire: India and the creation of Impirical Britain by Nicholas B.Dirks: The Corporation that changed the world: how the East India Company shaped the modern Multinational/ by Nick Robins

Rohit Wanchoo Punjaab: 1 January 1944-3 March 1947, Last years of the Ministries, Governor’s Fortnightly Report and other key Documents compiled and edited by Lionel Carter.

Rakesh Batabyal African Elites in India/ by Habshi Amarat.

Amiya P.Sen Images of the world: Essays in Religion, Secularism and culture /by T.N.Madan.

Barnita Baghi Crossing Thresholds: Feminist essays in Social History/ by Meera Kosambi.

Mohan Rao Sex-selective abortion in India: Gender, society and New Reproductive Technologies/edited by Tulsi Patel.

Achin Vanaik Human Security/ by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Auradha Chenoy.

Mayank Kumar Politics of Patronage and Protest: the State, society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan/ by Nandita Prasad Sahai.

Gita Ramaseshan Dalits in Dravidian Land: Frontline Reports on Ante-dalit violence in Tamil Nadu (1995-2004)/ by S.Viswanathan.

N.Rajaram Caste, Hierarchy, and Individualism: Indian critiques of Louis Dumonts Contributions/ edited by R.S.Khare.

Excerpts The Power of The world: South Asian Women’s writer’s Colloquium

M.S.Ganesh Conelia Sorabji- India’s pioneer woman lawyer by Suparna Gooptu.

Mahaswetha Sengupta Speech and silence: literary journeys by Gujarati women/ translated by Rita Kothari.

Ketaki Kushari Dyson Shringara/ by Shanta Acharya.

Rita Joshi Daughters of India/ by Margaret Wilson

Ira Raja Can you Hear the Nightbird call? By Tariq Ali.

Namrita Gokhale Rage: A novel by Balaji Venkateswaran; Endless Rain by

Meena Arora Nayak; A Bowstring winter /by Dhruba

Hazarika

Bodh Prakash Seamless boundaries: Lutfullah’s Narrative beyond East

and with an introduction/ by Mushirul Hasan.

Ahmad Saidullah The Lepard and the fox: a Pakistani Tragedy / by Tariq Ali

Theodore Baskaran A Bird’s Eye View: the collected essays and shorter

writings of Salim Ali/ edited by Tara Gandhi

Anuradha Kumar Making a Mango Whistle by Bibhutibhushan

Bandopadhyay. Translated by Rimli Bhattacharya and with

an introduction by Sharmila Tagore; Boyhood Days by

Rabindranath Tagore. Translated by Radha Chakrabarthy,

with an introduction by Amartya Sen

The Book Review

Vol.XXXI No.7 July

Arun K.Patnaik Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations

edited by Thomas Pantham.

Errol D’Souza India’s Politics: a view from the Backbench by Bimal Jalan

Lakshmi Subramanian The black hole: money, myth and empire by Jan Dalley

Jaya Tyagi Specters of Mother India: the Global Restructuring of and

Empire by Mrinalini Sinha.

Vijaya Ramaswamy Sati: a historical anthropology edited by Andrea Major.

Sumona Bannerjee Fluid Bonds: views on Gender and Water edited by Kuntala

Lahiri-Dutt; Social and gender analysis in Natural Resource

Management: learning Studies from Asia edited by Ronnie

Vernooy.

P.R.Chari The Politics of Water Resource Development in India: The

Narmada Dams controversy by John R.Wood

Mahesh Rangarajan How much should a person consume? Thinking through the

Environment by Ramachandra Guha

Debates & Discourses “When freedom expression” is a threat to Society by Peter

Ronald deSouza.,

Fumigating Terrorist Ideas by Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr.

Thoughts In Terrorem by M.S.Ganesh

Kameshwari Jandhyala The Politics of Gender, Community and Modernity: essays

on education in India by Nita Kumar.

K.Satchidanandan Dark Times by Jagannath Prasad Das,

edited by Paul St-Pierre.

Mala Pandurang Like the Flowing river: thoughts and reflections by Paul Coelho

Jug Suraiya Beware Falling coconuts by Adam Clapham, forwarded By Mark Tully.

Kamalini Sengupta Elvis, Raja- stories by M.G.Vassanji.

Harini Gopalswami Srinivasan Sycorax: New Fables and poems by Suniti Namjoshi

Neelam Saran Gour The Last bungalow: Writings on Allahabad edited by Aravind Krishna Mahrotra.

Mrinal Pande Gulab Bai:The Queen of Nautanki Theatre by Deepti Priya Mehrotra.

Abhik Majumdar Hindustani Music: a tradition in Transition by Deepak Raja

Narendra Panjwani Bollywood- Sociology goes to the movies by Rajinder Kumar Dudrah

Nirja Gopal Jayal The Tenth Rasa: an anthology of Indian Nonsense edited By Michael Heyman with Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka RaviShankar.

Ranjit Lal Birds of Western Maharashtra: a reference guide by Anand Prasad

Aaina : a mental health advocacy news letter

Vol.7 No.1 March 2007

Reflections: Inaugurating the post-CRPD era: promises and pitfalls for the mental health Sector: an Interview with Dr. Amita Dhanda, Hyderabad. Speaking our minds: Ass and Saints/ P.Y.Balan Advocacy News: Charter of Demands Speaking our minds Disturbing news for patients and Shock Doctors alike/ by PeterBreggin Advocacy News Reflections: student killings at Virginia Tech: A perspective/ Gitika Talwar An Orientation to AMH/ by Bhargavi Davar Spanning continents: my journey as an Art Therapist/ Susan Bullough- Khare Music Therapy

IAWS

Indian Association for Women’s Studies: newsletter

June 2007, Vol.II, No.2.

IAWS National Conference IAWS Regional Seminars Reports Obituaries/ Leela Majumdar, Mandakini Narayan Women’s Studies Syllabi Emerging Areas of Research Publications Book News Book Review