Anveshi - Research Centre for Women's Studies

Library Newsletter, July- August 2010

New arrivals in English under different subject headings

Agriculture:

Dilemmas in agriculture a personal story/edited by Gorrepati Narendranath: Uma Shankari. – New Delhi: Vasudhaivakutumbakam, 2010.

Development- Capitalism:

 

 

Rethinking capitalist development: primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalism/ by Kalyan Sanyal. - New Delhi: Roultedge, 2007.

 

 

 

 

Education - Developing countries:

 

The beautiful tree: a personal journey into how the world’s poorest people are educating themselves/ by James Tooley

. - New Delhi: Viking, 2009.

 

 

History:

The Menace of the dragon/ by B.Shyam Sunder.-Hyderabad: Samaantara, 2009.

History- United Araba Emirates- Dubai

 

 

Dubai: gilded cage/ Syed Ali

.- New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

 

Muslims- India- Social conditions:

 

Handbook of Muslims in India: empirical and policy perspectives/

Edited by Rakesh Basant: Abusleh Shariff

. - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.

 

Politics- India

 

 

Power and contestation: India since 1989/ by  Menon Nivedita & Nigam Aditya

.-Hyderabad: OrientLongman, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

Empire and nation: essential writings 1985-2005/ by Partha Chatterjee

/Introduction by Nivedita Menon.- New Delhi: Permanent black, 2010.

Secularism:

 

 

Is critique secular? blasphemy, injury, and free speech/ Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler and Saba Mahmood

. - Berkeley: University of California press, 2009.

 

 

Sociology- philosophy:

Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor- network theory/ by Bruno Latour. –

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Women’s rights- Middle East:

Paradise beneath her feet: how women are transforming the Middle east/ by Isobel

Coleman.- New York: Random house, 2010.

Women- United States- Social conditions:

Women together, women alone: the legacy of the consciousness raising movement/ by Anita Shreve. - New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.

New arrivals in Telugu under different subject heading

Kathalu:

 

 

Begari kathalu/ by Bhutam Muthyalu

.- Nallagonda: Gumpu- saahithee samstha, 2010.

 

 

 

Aarthika raajakeeyaalu- Bhaaratha desham:

Shryaaraajya kosam: Dagggubati Purandheswari prasangaalu/ tr.by Yarlagadda

Laxmi Prasad. - Vijayawada: Emesobooks, 2009.

Dalitha geethalu:

Dalitha geethaalu: geya sankalanam/ed. Jayadheer Thirumala rao.- Hyderabad: Saahithee circle,1993.

Navala:

Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao rachana prapancham Vol: 7: Navalalu 1949-62 / by Kodavati ganti Kutumbarao/Tr. Krishna Bai. – Hyderabad: Viplava rachaethala sangham, 2009.

New arrivals in audio visuals:

Documentary film

 

The Advocate/ a film by Deepa Dhanraj

produced by Kalpana Kannabiran, 2007.

 

 

Contents of Journals

Seminar

611     July, 2010

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS

THE PROBLEM

A short statement of the issues involved

SOLDIERS, STATESMEN AND STRATEGY

Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi.

THE INSURGENCY AFFECTED NORTH EAST

Namarata Goswami, Associate Fellow, Institute for defense Studies and Analyses, Delhi.

MILITARY MODERNIZATION IN INDIA

Sunil Dasgupta, Director of Political Science Programme at Shady Grove, University of Maryland-Baltimore Country; and

Stephen Philip Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Brooking Institution, Washington DC.

FROM PARTY ARMY TO CIVIL MILITARY IN CHINA

Samantha Lomeli, independent research scholar, USA.

SECURITY, SOLDIERS AND THE LANKAN POLITY

Aqil Shah, Post-doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge.

SECURITY, MINORIES AND THE LANKAN POLITY

Ahilan Kadirgamar, Spokesperson, Sri Lanka Democracy Forum(SLDF), and member, South Asia Solidarity Initiative(SASI), Dehiwella, Sri Lanka.

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN MYANMAR

Khriezo Yhome, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi.

STATE, ARMY AND THE AAM ADMI IN NEPAL

S.D.Muni, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore

BANGLADESH: IN THE AFTERMATH OF 1/11

Zafar Sobhan, Editor, Editorial and Op-Ed, ‘The Daily Star’, Dhaka.

SPOOKS AND STATES

Rudra Chaudhuri, Lecturer in War studies, King’s College, London; and Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for policy Research, Delhi.

MILITARY POWER AND THE CONSTITUTION

Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Professor of Law, National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata; and Madhav Khosla, graduate student, Yale Law School, New Haven.

BOOKS

Reviewed by Kanti Bajpai, Shanmugasundaram, Sasikumar, Kartik Bommakanti and Harsh Sethi.

FURTHER READING

A select and relevant bibliography

COMMENT

Why Democrats Should Worry

C.P.Bhambhri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

The Tragedy, and the Farce, of Bhopal Shashank Kela, writer; lives in Chennai

Seminar

612     August    2010

KARNATAKA VIGNETTES

A symposium on

Emerging trends in

Contemporary Karnataka

Symposium participants

THE PROBLEM

Posed by Chandan Gowda, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School of India, Bangalore.

THE IDEA OF KARNATAKA

U.R.Ananthamurthy, writer, Bangalore, in conversation with Chandan Gowda

PLACING NORTH KARNATAKA

Amaresh Nugadoni, Associate professor, Kannada Literature Studies, Hampi University.

VILLAGE DEITIES

Siddalingaiah, Poet; Professor, Centre for Kannada Studies, Bangalore University and Chairperson, Kannada Book

Authority, Bangalore, in conversation with Chandan Gowda.

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

A.R. Vasavi, social anthropologist; faculty, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore; currently at IIAS, Shimla.

FOOD ET CETER

Rahmat Tarikere, Department of Kannada Literature Studies, Hampi University.

THE AESTHETICS OF ‘THE GROUND UP’ CITY

Solomon Benjamini, Associate Professor, Urban Research and Policy Program, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE IN BANGALORE

Balaji Parthasarathy, ICICI Associate Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

P.Mahamud, ‘Prajavani’, Bangalore.

A NEW URBANISM IN MYSORE?

Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, Assistant Professor of Humanities, San Francisco State University.

INTRIGUINGLY POISED

Girish  Nikam, independent journalist, Delhi.

THE MUSICAL WORLDS OF KARNATAKA

Deepa Ganesh, Assistant Editor, ‘The Hindu’, Bangalore.

CELEBRATING KARNATAKA

Vinod Vyasulu, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies

BOOKS

Reviewed by Prakash Belawadi, Michael Carter and Girdhan Rathi.

COMMENT

Obituary For A New Manifesto

Shiv Visvanathan, Social Science, Nomad

Tehelka

Vol: 7 Issues: 30   July 2010

Sompeta, a Village in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Explodes over a corporation’s land acquisition for a power plant. Snapshots of a protest/ Kunal Majumder.

PROS & CONS/  RAMA MELKOTE/ Chandrababu Naidu is cold news. He tried changing it with his Babhli arrest

CRPF: The official View/ Brijesh Pandey/ Vikram Srivastava, DG,CRPF, On what his force needs to keep morale high and succeed.

Small crime, Big Sentence/ VAIBHAV VATS/ Lakhs of undertrials in India have been freed.Will they come rushing back to Jail?

Hindutva Terror/ RANA AYYUB/ The arts has a pile of evidence on fanatic rightwing groups, which they have been ignoring.Why?

CINEMA PARADISO/ PRAGYA TIWARI/ Lamhaa tries to tackle Kashmir’s troubled history, but creates dangerous precedents.

Hire Fliers/ SAMIRAN SAHA/ Air India is hiring top troubleshooters to Salvage its faltering business

Mercury Spoiling/ NITYANAND JAYARAMAN/ HUL’s thermometer factory in Kodaikanal is still leaking toxic waste, 10 years after it was shut.

The Belly Battle/ PM BHARGAVA/ The world According to Monsanto, a French journalist’s new book, questions Monsanto’s business model.

Tehelka

Vol: 7 Issues: 31   August 2010

Internecine Killings blight the Bengal landscape, even as the CPM and TMC GEAR UP FOR THE 2011 Assembly poll.

RED RAGE/ PARTHA DASGUPTA

PROS& CONS/ PREM SHANKAR JHA/ Instead of ‘composite dialogue’, India and Pakistan should look to address each other’s core concerns.

PARA CHAMP/ NERGISH SUNAVALA/ Wheelchair-bound power lifter Rajinder Singh’s rise to a gold medal prospect is an inspiration.

SPIN MASTER/ DILEEP PREMACHANDRAN/ The big legacy Muttiah Muralitharan leaves behind is a redefinition of the ‘legal’ delivery.

THE BOOK REVIEW

Volume XXXIV      Number 7 July 2010

Peter Heehs Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar by

Amiya P. Sen; His words: The Preachings and Parables of Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa edited and translated by Amiya P. Sen.

Amiya P.Sen Writing the self: The life and Philosophy of a Dissenting Bengali Baul

Guru by  Jeanne Openshaw.

Sumanta Banerjee Explorations in Modern Bengal. C.1800-1900: Essays on Religion,

History and Culture by Amiya P.Sen

Srinath Raghavan The Tryst Betrayed: Reflections on Diplomacy and Development by Jagar

S. Maehta

Hari Jaisingh Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi by Pranay Gupte

Parsa  Venkateshwar Rao Jr. Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity by

Pavan K.Varma.

Meenakshi Thapan Remembered Childhood: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille edited by

Malavika Karlekar and Rudrangshu Mukherjee.

Padmini Swaminathan Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern

India by Dia Da Costa.

Adnan Farooqui Emerging Trends in Indian Politics: The 15^th General Election edited by

Ajay K.Mehra

Amir Ali What is Political Theory and Why do we Need It? by Rajeev Bhargava

Sunita Paul The Birth and Death of a Small  printing press: A personal History.

Pamela Philipose The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia edited

by Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha.

Amit Sarwal Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers edited by

C.A.Cranston and  Robert Zeller

Malavika Karlekar The Artful Pose: Early Studio Photography in Mumbai C. 1855-1940

M.K.Raghavendran Women in Malayam Cinema: Naturalizing Gender Hierarchies edited

By Meena T. Pillai.

Soundhamini Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay Cinema 1970-

2000 by Karen Gabriel.

C.S. Venkateswaran Cinema Bhojpuri by Avijit Ghosh

Divya Bajpai Jha Mrinal Sen: Sixty Year in search of Cinema by Dipankar Mukhopadhyay;

Under Construction: Film catalogue 2009 Magic Lantern Foundation

K.Hariharan Narratives of Indian Cinema edited by Manju Jain; Bollywood Becomes

Her by Meredith Mcguire.

Sachidananda Mohanty Indian Travel Narratives edited by Somdatta Mandal.

Sanjukta Dasgupta Vermillion Clouds: A Century of Women’s Stories from Bengal

Translated by Manisha Chaudhry.

Frederick Noronha Konkani Literature in Roman Scripts; A Brief History by

Olivinho Gomes.

Mala Pandurang A Stree in Srinagar by Chandrakanta. Translated by Manisha Chaudhry

Mridula Garg Monkey- Man by K.R.Usha

Antara Datta Secret Space: Collection of Stories by Aruna Chakravarti

THE BOOK REVIEW

Volume XXXIV      Number 8 August 2010

Raja Menon War and Peace in Modern India: A strategic History of the Nehru

Year by Srinath Raghavan

K.P. Fabian Jinnah and Tilak; Comrades in the Freedom Struggle by

A.G.Noorani.

Sushant Sareen The Political Career of Mohammed Ali Jinnah By William S. Metz,

Edited by Roger D. Long; Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan:

A Selection of Talks and Interviews 1964-1967 edited by Nadia

Ghani.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed Ruttie Jinnah by Khwaja Razi Haidar.

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War by

Rajmohan Gandhi.

Amar Farooqui Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Enda of Liberal Imperialism

By Karuna Mantena.

Kesavan Veluthat Orientalism Empire, and National Culture: India 1770-1880 by

Michael S. Dodson.

Srimanjari Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of

Law by Elizabeth Kolsky.

Richa Kumar Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India

In the Early Seventeenth Century by A.R.Disney.

Naved Farooqui The Inordinately Srange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-

Indian MP and Chancery ‘L unatic’ by Michael H. Fisher.

Tabir Kalam Indo-Persian Historiography up to the Thirteenth Century by Iqtidar

Husain Siddiqui.

Nadeem Shah The Last Musha’irah of Delhi by Mirza Farthatullah Baig.

Translated by Akhtar Qamber.

Mariam Dossal History, Culture and the Indian

City: Essays by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar; ‘DHARAVI’:

Documenting Informalities.

A.G. Krishna Menon Mumbai: Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope ---1660 to Present time

by  Mariam Dossal.

Shatam Ray Look at the City from Here: Karachi Writings by Asif Farrukhi

Pravesh Sharma New forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts Models, Networks

and Contestations edited by I.S.A. Band & J.De Wit

Siddharth Mallavarapu The Oxford Companion to Politics in India edited by Niraja Gopal

Jayal & Pratap Bhanu Mehta

I.P. Khosla A culture of power shifts and Strategic Transition in Asia edited by

N.S. Sisodia & V. Krishnappa.

Stephen P. Cohen The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan: 1947-2008 by

Ilhan Niaz

Indra Nath Mukherji Promoting Economic cooperation in South Asia: Beyond SAFTA

edited by Sadiq Ahmed, Saman  Kelegama, Ejaz Ghani.

Sukanya Natarajan The Evolution of Development Policy: A Reinterpretation by Syed

Nawab Haider Naqvi.

P.R. Chari Assymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Cause and Consequences

of the Kargil Conflict edited by Peter R. Lavoy edited by D. Suba

Chandran and P.R. Chari.

Rajesh Rajagopalan Armed conflicts in South Asia, 2009: Continuing Violence, Failing

peace Processes edited by Peter R. Lavoy edited by D. Suba

Chandran and P.R. Chari.

Manpreet Sethi Indian’s Nuclear Debate: Exceptionalism and the Bomb by

Priyanjali Malik.

Sukla Sen In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age by

Stephanie Cooke; The Upside Down Book of Nuclear Power by

Saurav Jha.

T. Ananthachari Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization by Jaideep Saikia and

Ekaterina Stepanova; Decoding Intolerance: Riots and the

Emergence of Terrorism in India by Prateep K. Lahiri; Terror,

Terrorism, States and Societies: A Historical Perspective edited

By  Samir Kumar Das and Rada Ivekovic; Troubled Reflections:

Reporting Violence---Media’s Symbotic Relationship with

Violence, Terrorism and War by Gobind Thukral.

Srikanth Kondapalli China and India in the Age of Globalization by Shalendra D.

Sharma; India- China: A Comparative Analysis of FDI Policy and

Performance by Ashok Kundra.

Sreemati Chakrabarti India China Neighbours Strangers edited by Ira Pande.

Shanthie Mariet D’Souza Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field edited

by Antonio Giustozzi; Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in

Afghanistan by Antonio Giustozzi.

Kartikeya Tripathi The Tiger Vanquished: LTTE’s Story by M.R.Narayan Swamy.

N. Manoharan From Winning the War to Winning Peace: Post-War Rebuilding of

the Society in Sri Lanka edited by V.R. Raghavan.

Rita Manchanda New Nepal: The Fault Lines by Nischal Nath Pandey.

Pamela Philipose Borders, Histories, Exiatences: Gender and Beyond by Paula

Banerjee.

Ellora Puri Pakistani Women: Multiple Locations and Competing Narratives

Edited by Sadaf Ahmad.

Anuradha Chenoy Women, Gender, and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives edited

By Elanine Enarson and P.G. Dhar Chakravarti.

Vasanth Kannabiran State, Natural Resource Conflicts and Challenges to Governance:

Where Do We Go from Here? Edited by N.C. Narayanan;

Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource Management by Sumi

Krishna.

S. Theodore Baskaran Conservation At The Cross Road: Science, Society, and the Future of

India’s Wildlife by Ghazala Shahabuddin.

Kuntala Lahiri- Dutt The World’s First Anti- Dam Movement: The Mulshi Satyagraha,

1920-1924 by Rajendra Vora.

Rekha Pappu Gender and Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy by

Naila Kabeer.

Sandhya Srinivasan Unwanted Daughters: Gender Discrimination in Modern India edited

By T.V. Sekher, Nilambar Hatti.

Gillian Wright Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus by Samina

Qurraeshi; The War that Wasn’t: The Sufi and the Sultan by Fatima

Hussain.

Radhika Chadha Sufism and Society in Medieval India: Debates in Indian History and

Society edited by Raziuddin Aquil.

Amit Dey Islam in South Asia in Practice edited by Barbara D. Metcalf.

Arshad Alam In the  Name of Allah: Understanding Islam and Indian History and

Society edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray.

Jaya Tyagi The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet edited by

Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett.

Shukla Sawant Raja Ravi varma: Painter of Colonial India by Rupika Chawla.

Naman P. Ahuja The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture by Parul

Pandya Dhar.

Parul Pandya Dhar Victorious Ones: Jain Image of Perfection edited by Phyllis Granoff.

Laila Tyabji Manaar, Bazaar: Design & Visual Culture in Pakistan edited &

Designed by Saima Zaidi.

Harish Trivedi Gender, Language, and Learning: Essays in Indo- Muslim cultural

History by Gail Minault.

Nishat Zaidi The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali

Mihir S. Sharma The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi.

Aruna Chakravarti Train to India: Memories of another Bengal by Maloy Krishna Dhar

Sucharita Sengupta Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge by Suad Amiry.

EASTERN CRESCENT

Vol: 5     Issue: 8       August 2010

Stellar Role of Madrasas in the Educational Development of India

PROPHETIC INJUNCTION/ Not only the Qur’anic message keeps attracting people, its words also move people who may not know a word of Arabic

MIRROR/ Muslims Seething with Anger in UP

BETWEEN THE LINES/ Gurarat police corrupt to the core

SPECIAL REPORT/ Is the Beard Unbearable?

IN FOCUS/ Waqf Amendment Bill 2010: Productive or Counterproductive, war goes on

SPOTLIGHT/ SIT Confirms Ishrat Encounter Was Fake

NEWS SNIPPETS/ Maul. Ajmal Campaigns for Separate Hajj and Awqaf Ministry in the Center

Malegaon Accused Reveals Conspiracy to Kill Mohan Bhagwat.

NORTH EAST/ Assam looking for AMU Campus, Educational Meet in Guwahati

OUR NATION/ Fake Killins Return to Haunt Kashmir

GLOBAL ISSUES/ West Follows the Laws of the Jungle.

EDUCATION/ Every picture tells A Story.

COVER STORY/ Stellar Role of Madrasas in the Educational Development of India

DIALOGUE/ Mockery of Ideals

ONE-2-ONE/ Muslims are asked weird questions by employers: Given jobs only if more capable than non-Muslims, says Arfa Khanum.

NGO ACTIVITY/ Demonstration by MHW Youth Wing Against Women Harassment in Mumbai.

WOMEN’S ISSUES/ Women subject to Indignities at the Hands of Moral Vultures.

STAIRWAYS/ Become A Tiger Conservationist or Engage in Social Service

RELIGION/ Zikr and Fikr to Unlock the Blessings of Ramadhan

STUDENTS’ DESK

Mumbai gets its own TED Talks/ My Village Sights(Poem)/ Muslim Scholars face widespread Criticism

HISTORY IN TRANSLATION/ The Period of Hazrat Usman Ghani’s Caliphate

RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE/ Questions & Answers/ On day-to-day Masail of Muslims.

READER’S FORUM/ Letters to the Editor.

EDITORIAL/ The Suspicious Indian

HIMAL South Asian

Vol: 23     No: 7    July 2010

Cover feature

Indigenes and interiopers/Sanjib Baruah

After 69 days/Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Timeline of a shutdown/Tingnam Anjulika Samom

Ethnicity and territoriality/Yengkhom Jilangamba

Valley Versus hill/ Dolly Kikon

Dakhar Still/ Dinesh Wagle

The stories of our hills/Ronid Chingangbam                           

Mail

Commentary

Northeast Counterculture Restitution and retribution The Consultative jirga ‘Is someone else’.

Southasian briefs

New Darjeeling satrap/Niraj Lama

Premature Gorkhaland/Sanjay Pradhan

Home before dark/Akoijam Sunita

Analysis

Since the Second Amendment/Husain Naqi

Poverty up, Poverty down/D Tushar

Sighting

Indigenous symphonies/Vivek Menezes

Reflections

Securing the city/Nicola Perera & S Sumathy

Profile

Shillong librettist/ Teresa Rehman

Time and a Place

Those schools-less days/Pankaz Sharma

Fiction

Blah, Blah, Blah/ Indra Sinha

Photo feature

Hollywood Street/ Sami Siva

Opinion

A rose by a local name…/Quddus Mirza

Southasiasphere: C K Lal/A republic of populists

Mediafile

Review

Bookshelf/Oh, that Song!

Bhuchung D Sonam

The onerous political beyond/Diwas  Kc

Nepali dimension/Pranab Man Singh

Published articles of Anveshi members:

Honour killings Amaanaveeyaale/ Jupaka Subadra, Bhumika: Sthee Vaada Pathrika, July 2010.

Going with the Vote Flow: Chandrababu Naidu’s Barrage of Criticism amounts to doublespeak on Telangaana/Rama Melkote,Tehelka, 31 July 2010.

Gender and Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy by Naila Kabeer/ Rekha Pappu,

The Book Review: South Asia –XVI  August 2010.

Joo paapaa lee/ Dr.Samata Roshni.- Bhumika: Sthee Vaada Pathrika, July 2010.