Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148698
A. Flachs
Aniket Aga. 2021. Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 328 pp. Notes, references, index. $65 (hardback—ISBN: 9780300245905)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148700
Smriti Sikri
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan. 356 pp. 1210 (paperback—ISBN: 9789354421884)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148648
K. Kumbhar
Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure. Durham: Duke University Press. 304 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $27.95 (paperback—ISBN: 9781478014720)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667231152284
A. Giri
Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments. This construction emerged after the end of the Second World War and reflected the geopolitical construction of the world into different areas. It formed part of the Cold War environment, applying American social science tools to regional analysis. This essay argues that we rethink and transform such a geopolitical construction of Area Studies. It suggests that we critically engage with the epistemologies of the Euro-American world that lie behind such Area Studies projects in order to transform Area Studies and consider the claims of cosmopolitanism and planetary conversations across borders.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148706
Uday Chandra
Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 328 pp. Maps, glossary, figures, notes, references, index. ₹1695 (hardback—ISBN: 9788194831693)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221147075
A. Bhattacharya
The subaltern turn in historiography has changed the way we read history/histories. The omissions and silence(s) that happen at the stage of ‘fact creation’ provide us with a way of looking into how events become facts. Taking cues from the sociological and historical understanding of silencing, this article examines the process through which Muslim voices have been silenced in the historiography of Jharkhand’s statehood movement (the Jharkhand Andolan). While going through the mainstream accounts on this subject, what I encountered was a significant lack of discussion about the Muslim presence in the movement. This lack becomes visible in contrast to the accounts in the vernacular newspapers that recount how Muslims have been an integral part of the statehood struggle. Through personal interviews of Muslim Andolankaris (freedom fighters) conducted during my fieldwork along with the documents collected from their personal archives, I show how the subduing of Muslim voices was enabled by Jharkhand’s political parties and carried over to the common narration of the movement’s formation and history.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221150481
Subhadeepta Ray
Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Oxon and New York: Routledge. 214 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. £36.99 (eBook—ISBN: 9781003213475)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/22779779221150872
Thanzeel Nazer
Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt. London: UCL Press. 256 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendix, references, index. £40 (hardback—ISBN: 9781800082298)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148629
S. Visvanathan, C. Parmar
The essay argues for an exploration of alternative worldviews and a search for a different set of categories. It proposes that the classic ‘for a Sociology of India’ debate draw upon Ziauddin Sardar’s essays on the post normal society. Sardar explores a sociology of complexity, chaos and contradiction, thus calling for an epistemic examination of the relation between science and society, which in turn anticipates a set of thought experiments on the future of the Anthropocene.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148702
Shivani Rajput
Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 292 pp. Figures, references, index. ₹1695 (hardback—ISBN 9780190125561)
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