Book Review

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• Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
  18 April 2009, by Daya Varma
  Review Article
  The following review article has been sent to the Mainstream editor on April 6 with a note from the reviewer that reads:
  “I am submitting a review of Gargi Chakravartty’s P.C. Joshi: A Biography for favour of publication in  (...)
• Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
  18 August 2013
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Yogesh Puri
  Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem” and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
  “...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose  (...)
• Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
  27 November 2015, by Gabriele Dietrich
  BOOK REVIEW
  Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
  This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation  (...)
• All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
  26 December 2009, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
  BOOK REVIEW
  Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
  It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a  (...)
• Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
  19 May 2007, by G Narasimha Raghavan
  Development Discourse: Issues and Concerns by T.K. Oommen; Regency Publications, New Delhi; 2004 .
  Back in 1965, Dudley Seers wondered aloud:
  What has been happening to poverty? What has been happening to unemployment? What has been happening to  (...)
• IFS Officer Recalls Charms, Challenges | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 July, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW __0__
  Indian Foreign Service: Charms and Challenges by T.P. Sreenivasan
  Current Books ISBN : 978-93-5482-615-3 Pages:108 Price: Rs 250 https://ebooks.dcbooks.com/indian-foreign-service-charms-and-challenges
  
  Nawaz Sharif told  (...)
• Book Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
  18 June 2021
  ‘Rogues among the Ruins’
  by Achala Moulik
  December 2021 ; 312 pages
  ISBN: 978-93-89136-69-2
  Olive Turtle - Niyogi Books
  The novel by Achala Moulik titled ‘Rogues among the Ruins’, Neogi Publishers, was debated recently at a book discussion at  (...)
• Book Review of Lise Morjé Howard, Power in Peacekeeping | Chiara Ruffa
  13 June 2020
  Reviewed by Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)
  Lise Morjé Howard. Power in Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-45718-7
  Lise Howard’s The Power of Peacekeeping is about how  (...)
• Book Review: Gandhi’s ingenuously reconstructed autobiography | Suhas Borker
  30 July 2021, by Suhas Borker
  RESTLESS AS MERCURY:
  My Life As a Young Man
  by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
  Aleph Book Company ; January 2021 ; 400 p
  ISBN: 9788194874140
  https://www.alephbookcompany.com __0__
  As I read the preface by Gopalkrishna  (...)
• A Doctor with a Heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  29 October
  Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
  When The Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist by Dr Upendra Kaul Konark Publishers Pages: 202 Price: Rs 750 __0__
  There are plenty of good doctors in this country, fortunately. Yet, it is not easy to know  (...)

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