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Debating Environmental Governance

Vol - XLVIII No. 22, June 01, 2013 | Gopal K Kadekodi

Environmental Governance: Approaches, Imperatives and Methods edited by Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Kanchan Chopra and Nilanjan Ghosh (New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing India), 2012; pp x + 386, Rs 1,200.

Unravelling India's Red Tape

Vol - XLVIII No. 22, June 01, 2013 | Harsh Mander

Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta (Durham and London: Duke University Press), 2012; pp xiii + 368, Rs 895.

En Route to Development

Vol - XLVIII No. 21, May 25, 2013 | Avadhoot Nadkarni

A Critical Decade: Policies for India's Development edited by Rajeev Malhotra (New Delhi: OUP), 2012; pp 454, Rs 695.

Hill Stations, Tea Gardens and Tropical Disease

Vol - XLVIII No. 21, May 25, 2013 | Kalinga Tudor Silva

Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India by Nandini Bhattacharya (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), 2012; pp 219, $99.95 (cloth).

Unhealthy Health Governance

Vol - XLVIII No. 20, May 18, 2013 | Ravi Duggal

Global Health Governance by Jeremy Youde (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), 2012; pp 176, $26.95 (paperback).

Historical Geography of Ancient India

Vol - XLVIII No. 20, May 18, 2013 | Neekee Chaturvedi

The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties by Dilip K Chakrabarti (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2010; pp 198, Rs 650.

How Class Is Represented in Literature

Vol - XLVIII No. 19, May 11, 2013 | Badri Raina

The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature by Julian Markels (Delhi: Aakar Books), 2012; first published by Monthly Review Press, 2003; pp 160, Rs 395.

From the Inner Courtyard

Vol - XLVIII No. 19, May 11, 2013 | Leela Solomon

Kaalappakarchakal (Transcending Time) by Devaki Nilayamgode (Kozhikode: Mathrubhumi Books), 2012; pp 168, Rs 80.

A Provocative Perspective on India's Financial Sector

Vol - XLVIII No. 18, May 04, 2013 | T Sabri Öncü

Economic Policies and India's Reform Agenda:New Thinking by Y V Reddy (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan), 2013; pp xvi + 275, price not indicated.

The Little Red Book of Feminism?

Vol - XLVIII No. 18, May 04, 2013 | Mary E John

Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon (New Delhi: Zubaan and Penguin India), 2013; pp xii + 252, Rs 295.