AN ONLINE REVIEW OF BOOKS ON SOUTH ASIA
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India by Jon Wilson Public Affairs, 584 pp., 2016. Divided into fifteen chapters, covering a lengthy timeline from 17th to mid-20th century India, The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India, is an ambitious historical project. Jon Wilson presents a […]
MoreWhere India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste by Diane Coffey and Dean Spears Harper Collins India, 288 pp., 2017. “Sanitation is more important than political independence” -Mahatma Gandhi Diane Coffey and Dean Spears are social scientists par excellence who are addressing intellectual puzzles that directly matter in improving the lives […]
MoreSouth Asia is replete with literary traditions and scribes. This legacy stretching back to centuries old processes of literary activities came to be documented more cogently during the course of the twentieth century amidst a sweeping wave of academic professionalization that transformed both the tradition and criticism surrounding the production of South Asian literature. Seventy years on, […]
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