The Marathas 1600-1818
The Marathas is an excellent book for understanding the genesis and evolution of the Maratha polity in the early modern era.
Book Reviews
The Incarcerations
Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations examines the Bhima Koregaon case, the BK-16, planted evidence, dissent, democracy, and the targeting of activists in India.
The Kaurs of 1984
First hand testimonies and experiences of the women victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence, a dark chapter of Indian History.
The Patient Assassin
Anita Anand’s The Patient Assassin tells the story of Sardar Udham Singh, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Michael O’Dwyer, revenge, memory, and colonial injustice.
Bhima Koregaon – Challenging Caste
Ajaz Ashraf’s Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste examines the history of Bhima Koregaon, the 2018 violence, caste conflict, Elgar Parishad, and the BK16 arrests.
My Seditious Heart
My Seditious Heart is a collection of essays by Arundhati Roy written over the past two decades. The essays are on wide variety of subjects but the crux of all is social justice for the marginalized, calling out the governments for their flawed, unsustainable, and anti-people policies and a passionate appeal for humanity.
The Day I Became a Runner
A fine book capturing the stories of nine extraordinary women athletes of India. It takes the readers through the trials and tribulations, success and failures, celebrations and heartbreaks of these women athletes.
Stories From Palestine
A collection of some brilliant stories of grit, inspiration and resilience of the people of Palestine.
Hegemony or Survival
A book documenting Amrica’s Foreign policy by a great critique and political thinker of twentieth century – Noam Chomsky
Nightmarch: A Journey Into India’s Naxal Heartlands
Alpa Shah’s Nightmarch takes readers into India’s Maoist belt, exploring Adivasi lives, land, forests, inequality, state violence, revolutionary ideals, and the human cost of conflict.
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