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Newsletter Jan-Feb 2011

 

New arrivals in English under different subject headings

Law- Islamic law

 

 

 

Between God and the Sultan: a history of Islamic law/ by Knut S. Vikor. - ..-New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2005

 

 

 

Women- Law

 

 

Negotiating spaces: legal domains, gender concerns and community constructs/ Edited by Flavia Agnes: Venkatesh Ghosh Shoba. - Mumbai: Majlis, 2010.

 

 

 

 

Education

 

 

Concerns, conflicts and cohesions: universalization of elementary education in India/ Edited by Preet Rustagi. - ..-New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowledge, power & politics: educational institutions in India/ by Mushirul Hasan. - New Delhi: Lotus Collection, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On education/ by Mudunuri Bharathi. - Hyderabad: Centre for documentation, Research, 2010.

 

 

 

 

Nationalism- India

 

 

Ethno nationalism in India: a reader/ Edited by Sanjib Baruah. - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.

 

 

 

Pathology- Philosophy

 

 

 

The normal and the pathological/ by Georges Canguilhem/ tr.by Carolyn R.  Fawcett/ Adapted by Robert S. Cohen. - New York: Zone books, 1991.

 

 

 

Globalization

 

 

Landscapes of the Jihad: militancy, morality, modernity/ by Faisal Devji. - ..-New Delhi: Foundation books, 2005.

 

 

 

 

Motivation

 

 

Motivation and personality/ by Abraham H Maslow / Adapted by Frager Robert and James Fadiman and Cynthia McReynolds: Cox Ruth.

 

 

 

 

Hostages- Lebanon- Biography

 

 

 

An evil cradling: unforgettable...a remarkable achievement/ by Brian Keenan.- Arrow: Vintage, 1993.

 

 

 

Communal living- fiction

 

 

 

The young in one another's arms/ by Jane Rule.-U.S.A: The naiad press inc, 1984.

 

 

 

Women- health and hygiene- India

 

 

 

Listening to women talk about their health: issues and evidence from India/ ed. by Joel Gittelsohn [et.al..].- New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications,1994.

 

 

Fiction

 

 

Illusions: the adventures of a reluctant Messiah/ by Richard Bach.- Great Britain: William Heinemann ltd, 1978.

 

 

 

 

Women writing- India

 

 

Tense past, tense present: women writing in English/ Edited by Joel Kuortti.-Kolkata: Stree, 2003

 

 

 

 

Islamic education- India

 

 

 

Madrasa education in India: a study/ by Saral Jhingran.-New Delhi: Manohar, 2010.

 

 

 

Telangana

 

 

Telangana state: a popular demand/ by K.Y.Reddy.-Hyderabad: Deccan Telangana publishers, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Telangana struggle for identity: Telangaana astitva pomatum (English- Telugu)/ Edited by Velchala Kondal Rao.-Hyderabad: Telangana cultural forume, 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telangana: sage of a tragic struggle/ by Adiraju Venkateswara Rao. - .. - Hyderabad: Om see satya publication, 2010.

 

 

 

Iron industry and trade- India- Telangana

 

 

Iron and wootz steel industry in Northern Telangana: a historical perspective/ S. Jaikishan.-Hyderabad: Telangana jagrithi, 2009.

 

 

 

 

Economics

 

 

 

Crisis and development in Marxiam framework: a philosophical essay on/ by Mudunuri Bharathi. -Hyderabad: Centre for documentation, Research, 2010.

 

 

 

Social science

 

 

 

Methodology of social enquiry: a Marxian perspective/ by Mudunuri Bharathi. - Hyderabad: Centre for documentation, Research, 2010.

 

 

 

Biography

 

 

 

The last Nizam: the life and times of Mir Osman Ali Khan/ by V.K. Bawa.-Hyderabad: Centre for Deccan studies, 2010.

 

 

 

Politics

 

 

 

Individual, sub- groups, groups and freedom/ by Mudunuri Bharathi. - Hyderabad: Centre for documentation, Research, 2010.

 

 

 

Dravidian culture- Nomads

 

 

 

Vanishing nomadism: the sage of the dommara/ by K.Shyamala.-Kuppam: Dravidian University, 2010.

 

 

 

Art

 

 

 

Chandralekha: women dance resistance/ by Rustom Bharucha.- New Delhi: INDUS, 1995.

 

 

 

Maoists- India

 

 

 

Maoists in India: writings & interviews/ Azad.- [s.l]: friends of Azad, 2010.

 

 

 

 

New arrivals in Telugu under different subject headings

Sahithyam

Navala

Chivaraku Megilindi? / Tr. by M.V. Ramana Reddy.-Hyderabad: Hyderabad book trust, 2010.

Nirnayam: Sanghika navala/ by Malayasri. - Hanumakoda: Telangaana saahithee publications, 2010.

Rendu kalala desham: navala/ by Swamy. - Hyderabad: Paalapitta books, 2010.

Agnaata veerudu/ by Misthislavasky/ tr. By Srinivasa Chakravarthi. - 2 nd.-Vijayawada: Tarimela Naagi Reddy memorial trust prachurana, 2009.

Vyasalu

Raajyam- sankshemam: upanyasalu/ by K.Balagopal. - Hyderabad: Perspectives, 2010.

Bharatheeya sahithya vyasalu/ by Dr. Nalimela Bhaskar/ edited by Jooluri Gowrishankar.-Hyderabad: Karshaka arts prints, 2010.

Telangana udhyama vyasalu/ by Dr. G. Laxman.-Hyderabad: Adugujaadalu prachurana, 2010.

Kathalu

Musuru: anubhavalu- jnapakalu- Aalochanalu (Autobiography)/ by Mudiganti Sujatha Reddy.-Hyderabad: Rohanam, 2010.

Audio Visuals

A quiet little entry/ film by Uma Chakravarthy

A film based on Fragments of a Life: A Family Archive by Mythili Sivaraman.2010

 

Contents of Journals

Seminar
617     January, 2011

Hard work ahead/T.N. Ninan, Chairman, ‘Business Standard’, Delhi.

Decline of political judgement/Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the study of developing Scoieties, Delhi.

Taking a long view/ Rajiv Kumar, Director General, FICCI, Delhi.

Superpower? /Raghav Bahl, Founder and Editor, Network 18, Delhi

Indians   new role in the Indian ocean/C. Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, ‘The Indian Express’, Delhi.

A new paradigm for nuclear liability/Siddharth Varadarajan, National Bureau Chief of ‘The Hindu’ and its Strategic Affairs Editor, Delhi.

Lineage and democracy/Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of History, University of Delhi.

BSP at the crossroads/ Sudha Pal, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Righting the historians’ wrongs/Swapan Dasgupta, Political commentator and columnist, Delhi.

Kashmir: a caste census/Basharat Peer, author and political commentator;  Fellow at open Society Institute, and lives in New York and Kashmir.

Need for a caste census/Suhas Palshikar, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Pune University.

Beyond quotas and commissions/Farah Naqvi, Writer and activist, Delhi.

Thinking about justice/Amithabh Mukhopadhyay, Indian Audit and Accounts service, Delhi.

Addressing the trilemma of higher education/Devesh Kapur, Director, and Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia.

Towards universal food security/Himanshu, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Visiting Fellow, Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi.

Formality and functionality in indian cities/Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow Centre for Policy Research, Delhi.

India’s sex ratio: misplaced advocacy? /Leela Visaria, Honorary Professor, Gujarat Institute of development Research, Ahmadabad.

The myth of the technology fix/Usha Ramanathan, independent law researcher, Delhi

Delusions of granderur/Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, independent journalist and educator, Gurgaon

Seminar
618     February    2011

Social transformations a Symposium on the evolving cultures of the middle class in India

Constructing brand India/ Santosh Desai, Social commentator and CEO, Future Brands, Delhi.

THE LANGUAGE OF CONSUMPTION

Rama Bijiapurkar, independent market strategy consultant, Mumbai.

Perchance to find my tongue/Mrinal Pande, writer and journalist; Chairperson, Prasar Bharati and former Editor, ‘Hindustan’, Delhi.

Balikain wonderland: the new  soap sin town/ Shoma Munshi, Professor of Anthropology American University of Kuwait

half change, ata steepprice/ Jaideep Sahni, screen writer and Lyricist, Mumbai.

Whither social media?/ Sagarika Ghose, author and journalist; Deputy Editor and anchor on the news network CNN-IBN, Delhi.

Pixilated time/ Sevanti Ninan, author and columnist, ‘The Hindu’, Delhi.

Jeanska pant/ Mozez Singh, writer, producer, director, designer and blogger, Mumbai.

Travelers on the rampage/ Kishore Singh, has been a travel writer, newspaper editor and author; currently researching and documenting modern Indian art, Delhi.

The new  middle class/ Aakar Patel, Director, Hill Road Media Services; former Editor-in-chief, ‘Divya Bhaskar’ and Mid Day Multimedia, Mumbai.

The carnival of the republic/ Shiv Visvanathan, social science nomad, Ahmedabad

Books/ Reviewed by Kumkum Roy, Swati Shresth, Ashutosh Kumar, Sukti Dasgupta and Jeemol Unni.

In memoriam/ K.G.Kannabiran 1929-2010 P.Lal 1929-2010.

Tehelka
Vol: 8      Issue: 7         February 2011

Dissenting Note/ the landmark Supreme Court judgment is not a dilution of the anti- terror law.

Terror Taint/ the RSS brass is struggling to untangle itself from Hindutva terror  Charges by SOPAN JOSHI

Red Alert/ Army plans to set up a jungle warfare school in Chhattisharh’s Maoist heartland by AVALOK LANGER

Easy Prey/ India is country that has yet to learn the value of safeguarding its women and kids by MONSOON BISSELL.

THE BOOK REVIEW
Volume XXXV      Number 1     January 2011

Amit Bhattacharya Colonialism and Indian Economy by Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Harish S. Wankhede Foundations of Tilaks Nationalism: Discrimination, education and Hindutva by Parimala V. Rao.

Hilal Ahmad Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India edited by Gurpreet Mahajan and S.Surinder Jodhka.

Sukumar Murleedharan The world According to Monsanto: Pollution, Politics and Power by Marie- Monique Robin.

Mohan Rao Malaria in the Social Context: A study in Western India by Lancy Lobo

Kuntala Lahiri- Dutt Water Governmence in Motion towards socially and environmentally Sustainable Water Laws edited by P.Cullet, A. Gowlland- Gualteri, R. Madhav and U.Ramanathan

Ved Marwah Mumbai: Political Economy of Crime and Space by Abdal Shaban.

Saman Kelegama Economic Wisdom for Babies by W.A. Wijewardena

Avanti Mukherjee Land Tenure, Gender and Globalization: Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia And Latin America edited by Dzodzi Tsikata and Pamela Golah.

Gitanjali Sen India on the Growth Turnpike: Essays in Honour of Vijay L.Kelkar edited by Sameer Kocchar

Richa Kumar Hunger and Famine in Kalahandi: An Anthropological Study by Arima Mishra

Saroj Pachuri Head count: Memoirs of a Demographer by Ashish Bose.

G.J.V. Prasad The Girmitiya Saga by Giriraj Kishore

Lola Chatterji T’ta professor by Manohar Shyam Joshi.

Udaya Narayana Singh Language, Emotion and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue by Lisa Mitchell.

B.Mangalam Adhunik Sahitya Mein Dalit Vimarsh by Devendra Choubey

Tapan Basu Mera Bachpan Mere Kandhon Par by Sheoraj Singh ‘Bechain’

Preeti Dewan & Deeba Zafir Jatidansh ki Kahanian edited by Subhash Chandra Kushwaha.

Mridula Garg Jaltarang: A Novel by Simmi Harshita

Akshaya Kumar Kavi Ka Akelapan by Manglesh Dabral; Poora Ghar Hai Kavitha: Hindi Kavita

Ka Paridrishya by Neelabh; Kathopakathan: Sakshatkar by Arun Kamal;

Samkaleenta Aur Samay Meina Kavita Arun Kamal; Samkaleenta Aur Apne

Samay Mein Kavita Aur Gadhya Ka Leekha- Jokha by Rajesh Joshi.

Sanjiv Kumar Kaun Hoon Mein by Manohar Shyam Joshi

Uday Prakash Pande Davanal: A Novel by Navin Joshi.

Nand Kishore Nawal Dukkham Sukham by Mamta Kalia

Manoj Pandey Sapne Mein Prem Ki Saat Kahaniyan by Tej Grover.

HIMAL South Asian
Vol: 24     No: 1    January 2011

The light of tears/ Ali Madeeh Hashmi

In Other tongues/ Vijay Prashad

Subsumed by history and nation/ Afsan Chowdhury

Dipped in the heart’s blood/ Rakshanda Jalil

Listening to Faiz is subversive/ Gauhar Raza

From home to the world/ Ali Mir and Raza Mir

‘Bol’, the Nepali people! / Gauri Nath Rimal

In many dimensions/ Sheel Kant Sharma

The right to dissent commerce across South Asia winter of graft ‘Could have been a hero’

South Asia briefs

Naya Bihar: Nitish’s next yatra/ Abhay Mohan Jha

Arunachal Justice/ Teresa Rehman

Old bounds, new art/ Mujib Mashal

 

Special Report

Peace in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan/ Ninth Panos- Himal roundtable

 

Analysis

Plenum flasco/ Post Bahadur Basnet

Simulated Politics of diaspora/ Nirmala Rajasingham

Unsettled border/ Sarbari Bhaumik

‘Owning’yoga/ Meera Nanda

Kagyupa Only/ I P Adhikari

Developmentalisation of Nepal/ Hemant R Ojha

 

Opinion

Roads & Redistributive injustice/ Garga Chatterjee

Beyond the global glasshouse/ Nalaka Gunawardene

 

Photo feature

Inside ‘liberated’ Loi Taileng/ Brennan O’Connor

 

Time and a place

The paar of Mannar/ Richard Boyle

South Asia sphere: C K Lal/ The cost of liberalisation

 

Mediafile

Sighting/ Doublethinking famine/ Madhusree Mukerjee

 

Tapestry

The town as musical score/ Gert- Matthias Wegner

 

Reflections

The void of Nagarjuna/ Namit Arora

 

Review

Bookshelf/ Between media and state/ A S Panneerselvan

Enrolling Pakistan/ Faisal Bari

On the stage and off/ Lata Singh

On the way up/ Upwelling mud

Himal: South Asian: South Asian
Vol.24   No.2     February 2011

India -Bangladesh land bridge / Kanak Mani Dixit

Hindustani music is our music/ Namita Devidayal

Divided scores/ Yousuf Saeed

Burmese songs of exile/ Jack Chance

Between town and country/ Surabhi Pudasaini

Indian ocean’s CMP/ Rahul Ram

Freewheelin Lou Majaw/ Vivek Menezes

 

Analysis

Affronts to humanity/ Husain Naqi

Standing up/ Iqbal Khattak

Trilateral agreement for Nepali/ Mallika Shakya

Lankan reality/ Tisarane Gunasekara

Urdu realpolitik/ Senge Hasnan Sering

 

Report

Frenemies forever/ Ahmed Yusuf

UNMIN: bang to a whimper/ Damakant Jayshi

 

Special report

Exit strategy in Afghanistan/ Aunohita Mojumdar

 

Opinion

Rudderless opposition/ Moegyo

 

Southasiasphere: C K Lal

The price of prosperity

Tapestry

In search of the song/ Saba Dewan

 

Sighting

Iffy event/ Alston D’Silva

 

Review

Bhupi on a revolving chair/ Manjushree Thapa

Morality, morality/ Rakesh Shukla

Biblio: a review of books
Vol XVI            No.1 & 2         January- February 2011

Makers of modern India /edited and introduced by Ramachandra Guha                Jyotirmaya Sharma

Churchill’s secret war: the British empire and the ravaging  of India during World war Ii by Madhusree Mukerjee                                                                                                                                                                        Rahul Govind

First draft witness to the making of modern India by B.G.Verghese                      Harsh Sethi

Revolution highway by Dilip Simeon                                                                 Ahmer Anwar

Mumbai fables by Gyan Prakash                                                                       Darius Cooper

Beautiful thing: inside the secret world of Bombay’s dance bars by Sonia Faleiro     Kalpana Sharma

A world framed by language: a report on the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2011   Trisha Gupta

The Oxford Anthology of writings from North-East India fiction  edited by Tilottoma Misra                                                                                                                           Preetika Venkatakrishann

The To-let house by Daisy Hasan                                                         Sumana Roy

A game of Chess: classic Assamese stories edited and translated by Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah and Luck by Dhruba Hazarika                                                                                                                                           Nitoo Das

Stupid cupid by Mamang Dai                                                              Janice Pariat

East of the sun: a nearly stoned walk down the road in a different land by Siddhartha Sarma

Dilip D’Souza

The hour before dawn by Bhabendra Nath Saikia                                                 Aruni Kashyap

The Oxfor d anthology  of writings from North-East India: poetry and essays edited by Tilottama Misra                                                                                                                                                                                        Tarun Bhartiya

The marshall albums; photography and Archaeology  edited by Sudeshna Guha      Vikramjit Ram

For the record: on Sexuality and the colonial archive in India by Anjanli Arondekar   Manisha Sethi

The truth about me: a Hijra life story by A.Revathi: thanslated by V.Geetha         Pushpesh Kumar

Fire by Shohini Ghosh                                                                                      Lawrence Liang

Hostel room 131 by R.Raj Rao and Yaraana: Gay writing from South Asia edited by Hoshang Merchant                                                                                                                                                                                   Shad Naved

The dead camel and other stories of love by Parvati Sharma                             Brinda Bose

Why we don’t talk edited by Shinie Anthony                                                   Somak Ghoshal

Aria translations by Sudeep Sen                                                                       Sampurna Chatterji

Battle for Bittora by Anuja Chauhan                                                                 Parvati Sharma

Turbulence by  Samit Basu                                                                              Arul Mani

Jimmy the terrorist by Omair Ahmad                                                                Aditya Sudarshan

Once upon a time in Scandinavistan by Zac OYeah                                          Jai Arjun Singh


Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights
Vol.30      Jan 16th- 31st 2011         No.2

Editorial

ANOTHER DV PREDICTION AS THE NEW DECADE BEGINS : Foreign power may take over India made so weak & powerless by Brahminical imperialism

Reports

China will overtake US in 8 years

Iran becomes nuclear power

Corruption strengthens Hinduism : Raid on temples & ashramas will reveal all secrets

Indian praise for China’s justice system

Maratha-Brahmin “fighting” keeps Maharashtra entertained

India’s relations with China further damaged ?

Churchill’s prediction on India proves right

ISRO’s bunch of Brahmin boys & GSLV failure

Obama admits his failure as President

THUS SPAKE PERIYAR : Gandhi did nothing to Untouchables

Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights
Vol.30                   February 1st -15th ,  2011                                No.3

Editorial

JEWS & "JEWS OF INDIA" IN TIGHT EMBRACE : Abhinav Bharat wants to clamp Brahminic dictatorship by imposing Manu's constitution

 

Reports

DV prediction comes true : Keep India poor, hence illiterate & then kill those opposing Brahminism

Abhinav bharat wants only brahmin rule over india

Hinduism stands for violence

“Holy Hindustan”, land of spiritualism, is stinking with corruption

Why India could not produce any Nobel-laureat ?

Telengana & “nationality question”

3 “national” parties which are anti-(national) people

“Jews of India” join Jews to launch World War-III over Israel

“Khatri Sick” PM as enemy of poor

If Raja was innocent why was he dismissed?

Nobel Award winner Yunus facing corruption charges

Articles

Appeal to DV life members

History of “Hindu terrorism”

COMMUNICATION : Periyarism is dead in Tamil Nadu

THUS SPAKE PERIYAR : Gandhi made Brahmins rulers of India

Voice of Dalit
Volume 3         No.2 (July-Dec)          2010

Globalization and Caste        by Anand Teltumbde

Caste Delusion,  Buddhism and The Dalit Psyche / by Shura Darapuri

Caste Discrimination, Deprivation and the Socio-economic Development of Dalits /

by Bankim Chandra Mandal

Evolution of Constitutional Safeguards for Dalits: An Overview/ by M. Velusamy

Caste Violence in India: Reflections on Violence against the Dalits of Contemporary India / by Rup Kumar Barman

Women Workers in the Doors Tea Gardens : Roots of exclusion /  by Suparna Chatterjee

From Mayel Lyang to Gorkhaland : Continuity of Marginality among the Lepchas of Darjeeling Hills/ by Tapan Kr. Das

The Julaha - Momin Ansaris of Banaras : A Socio-Historical Trajectory/ by Vasanthi Raman

Role of Traditional Institutions in Governance-Experience from Karbi Anglong, Assam / by Alaka Sarmah and Chucheng Fa Gogoi

Indian Journal of Secularism
Volume: 14              Jan-March 2011        No.4

Badruddin Umar: rejection of the middle east and Islam in radical Bangladeshi Linguistic Nationalism/  Dr. Dennis Walker

Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi and Impact of his Ideas on Muslim Politics/  Asghar Ali Engineer

Muslim-Hindu Relations in Jammu Province/  Yoginder Sikand

Cultural Pluralism and Nation Building. The need to Reconstruct Identities./Dr. Leela D’Souza

The Critical Analysis of Fatwas: Quran and jurisprudence/  Shazia Shaikh

Cosmic Confidence or Preferential Option? Towards A radical Pluralism for Justice/  Dr. L. Anthony Savari Raj

Published articles of Anveshi members

Micro chiteelu sampaneekaa saadaneeka/Jupaka Subadra, Bhumika: Sthee Vaada Pathrika, January , 2011.

Shh--- Gaph chuph/ Jupaka Subadra, Bhumika: Sthee Vaada Pathrika, February , 2011.