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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in West Bengal: A Study of Agrarian Relations edited by Aparajita Bakshi and Tapas Singh Modak, New Delhi: Tulika, 2021; pp 496, `1,250
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya, HarperCollins Publisher India, 2021; pp 464, ` 699.
From Lucknow to Lutyens: The Power and Plight of Uttar Pradesh by Abhigyan Prakash, Gurugram: HarperCollins Publishers, 2022; pp xxxii + 239, ` 599.
Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict by Sumantra Bose, Yale University Press/Picador India, 2021; pp 333, ` 540 (hardcover).
The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast by Arkotong Longkumer, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021; pp 321, price not mentoned.
Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan by Adeel Hussain, London: Hurst & Company, 2022; pp viii+173, ` 2,544 (hardcover).
Meat, Mercy, and Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850–1920 by Samiparna Samanta , New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp 288, $75.
The Indentured Archipelago: Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916 by Reshaad Durgahee, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, New Delhi and Singapore: Cambridge University Press,...
Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar’s Villages by M R Sharan, Chennai: Context, 2021; pp 217, ` 599.
Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by Debasish Das, Mumbai: Becomeshakespeare.com, 2019; pp xi + 406, ` 499, (paperback).
The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra by Arupjyoti Saikia, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxxv + 583, ` 1,195 (hardcover).
Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India edited by Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter de Souza, Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp vii+295, ` 989 (hardbound).
Electoral Democracy? An Inquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India edited by M G Devasahayam, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta , pp xxix + 292, ` 699.
Citizens of Everywhere: Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism 1920–1952 by Rosalind Parr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp 198, price not mentioned (hardback).
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan, India: Penguin Viking, 2022; pp 288, `799.

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