2021: Excerpts from 21 Book Reviews of the Year
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India Policy Finance and Policy Report: Health Matters
edited by Jyotsna Jalan, Sugata Marjit and Sattwik Santra | Review by Keshav Desiraju
by Thomas Piketty | Review by Rahul Menon
The Strangeness of Tamil Nadu: Contemporary History and Political Culture in South India
by M S S Pandian | Review by V Geetha
Hindu–Muslim Relations: What Europe Might Learn from India
by Jörg Friedrichs | Review by Silva Lieberherr
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
by Tony Joseph | Review by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India
edited by Aparna Vaidik | Review by Ujithra Ponniah
The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction
by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham | Review by Gayatri Nair
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India
by Dag-Erik Berg | Review by Jadumani Mahanand
Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles
by Ghazala Jamil | Review by Shireen Azam
Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality
edited by Surinder S Jodhka and Jules Naudet | Review by Savitha Suresh Babu
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India
edited by Anit Mukherjee | Review by Jawahar Bhagwat
The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914 –1921
edited by Radhika Singha | Review by Pratyay Nath
Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast India
edited by Raile Rocky Ziipao | Review by Richard Kamei
Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos
edited by Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat and Rachel Dwyer | Review by Lina Mathias
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India–Pakistan Relationship, 1947–52
by Pallavi Raghavan | Review by Meena Menon
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
by Peggy Mohan | Review by Asha Singh
India and the Pandemic: The First Year, Essays from The India Forum
by The India Forum, 2021 | Review by Sylvia Karpagam
Similarity: A Paradigm for Culture Theory
edited by Anil Bhatti and Dorothee Kimmich | Review by Sandeep Banerjee
The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha
by Jairam Ramesh | Review by Sundar Sarukkai
The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections
edited by Suraj Yengde and Anand Teltumbde | Review by Chinnaiah Jangam
Macroeconomics: An Introduction
by Alex M Thomas | Review by Rahul Menon
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