Book Reviews
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LIST OF ARTICLES WITH description IN VOLUME xiii
1. MODERNITY, RATIONALITY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
A review of The Modernisation Effects of University Education by S L Sharma, Allied Publishers. New Delhi, 1979.
2. PROTESTANTS IN URBAN MILIEU
A review of Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community by Lionel Caplan; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987; pp ix + 296.
3. GANDHI: TURNING THE SEARCHLIGHT INWARDS
A review of Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action, Dennis Dalton, Columbia Univ. Press, N.Y. 1993, New Preface, 2012.
4. THE ANGLICAN ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF IMPERIALISM
A review of Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism, by Gerald Studdert-Kennedy, Sage Publications, N. Delhi, London, 1998, Pages 273.
5. FOOD
A review of Food by Jose Anthony Joseph, Trocaire, Veritas, Cafood, Dublin, 1999, pp.71.
6. ACROSS THE DIVIDE: DIALOGIC HUMANISM
A review of Encounter in Humanisation: Insights for Christian-Marxist Dialogue and Cooperation, Paulose Mar Paulose, with an introduction by Dr. Ninan Koshi, Christava Sahitya Samity, Tiruvala, 2000, pp. 223.
7. RECOVERING AMBEDKAR: THE DALIT MOVEMENT IN CRISIS
A review of Dalit Identity and Politics: Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge, Vol.II, Editor-Ghanshyam Shah. Sage Publication, New Delhi, 2001.
8. THE JURIDICAL CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY
A review of A Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law, Amrita Shodhan, Samya, Kolkata, 2001. Rs.350/-, pgs. 222
9. AUTONOMY AS MOKSHA: THE QUEST FOR LIBERATION
A review article of Gandhi: Struggle for Autonomy, by Ronald J. Terchek: Vistar Publication, New Delhi, 2000, pp. xiv+265,
10. POLITICS OF THE DAMMED
A review of The Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development by Dilip D’Souza, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2002
11. DISHONOURED BY HISTORY, BRANDED BY LAW: FROM CRIMINAL TO DENOTIFIED TRIBE
A review of Dishonoured by History: ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy, by Meena Radhakrishna, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2001, Rs.435/-, pp.xiv+192.
Branded by Law: Looking at India’s Denotified Tribes, by Dilip D’Souza, Penguin Books, N. Delhi, 2001.
12. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCHOOLING
A review of Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness, by Avijit Pathak, Rainbow publishers, Delhi-2002.
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13. NEGOTIATING THE NATION
A review of Communal Identity in India: Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century, edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003.
14. FALTERING STEPS ON A LONG MARCH
A review of Feminism, Tradition And Modernity edited by Chandrakala Padia, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2002.
15. IMPERIALISTS AND CRUSADERS
Reviews of Mission, Nationalism, and the End of Empire, edited by Brian Stanley, Grand Rapids, Michigan/ Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003. And The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914, edited by Andrew Porter, Grand Rapids Michigan/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003.
16. GLOBALISING HINDUTVA, LOCALISING CHRISTIANS
A review of Globalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Christians in India, by Lancy Lobo, Rawat Publications, Jaipur and Delhi, 2002.
17. GANDHI AND THE CHALLENGE OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
A review of Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity Religious Pluralism Revisited, Margaret Chatterjee, Promilla and Co., New Delhi, 2005.
18. TRIBUTE TO A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
A review,of Anti-Utopia: Essential Writings of André Beteille, edited with an Introduction by Dipankar Gupta, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
19. TREMORS OF VIOLENCE
A review of Tremors of Violence: Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western India, by Rowena Robinson. Sage Publication, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, 2005
20. CHRISTIANS OF INDIA
A review of Christians of India, by Rowena Robinson.
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2003.
21. REMEMBERING IS TOGETHERNESS
A review of Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present, Narratives from Orissa, Angana Chatterji, Three Essays, 2009, Gurgaon, India.
22. SINKING OLD HORIZONS, IMAGINING NEW ONES: DEBUNKING EXCEPTIONALISM
A review of Identity And Violence: The Illusion Of Destiny by Amartya Sen; Penguin Books, England, 2006.
23. REDEEMING THE SILENCE
A review of A Nomad Called Thief: Reflections on Adivasi Silence by G. N. Devy, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2006
24. RESERVATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A review of Reservation and Affirmative Action: Models of Social Integration in India and the United States by Arvind Sharma, Sage, New Delhi, 2005.
25. PROVOCATIVE LESSONS
A review of A Matter of Equity: Freedom of Faith in Secular India by John Dayal, Anamika Publishers, New Delhi, 2007.
26. DALITS IN INDIA
A review of Dalits in India: Search for a Common Destiny, by Sukhadeo Thorat, with assistance from Prashant Negi, M. Mahamallik and Chittaranjan Senapati. Sage Publ., N. Delhi, 2009.
27. McDONALDISATION, McGOSPEL AND OM ECONOMICS.
A review of McDonaldisation, McGospel and Om Economics, Jonathan D. James, Sage, Delhi, 2010.
28. ETHICAL TRANSMISSION IN TIMES OF TRANSITION IN SOUTH ASIA
A review of Ethical Life in South Asia, Edited by Anand Pandian and Daud Ali, Oxford University Press, N. Delhi, 2011.
29. FLOWING TOGETHER, FALLING APART?
A book review of Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West by Ilija Trojanow and Ranjit Hoskote. Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2012.
30. SACRIFICING PEOPLE
A review of Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape by Felix Padel, New and Updated Edition, Orient Black Swan, 2009.
31. POST-GODHRA GUJARAT: OUR FUTURE OR OUR PAST?
A review of Lest We Forget History: Tracing Communal Violence in Gujarat 2002 by P G J Nampoothiri and Gagan Sethi (Bangalore: Books for Change, International Publishing House), 2012.
32. GANDHI’S INTERROGATION
A review of The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi edited by Judith M Brown and Anthony Parel. (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press), 2011.
33. AMBIGUITIES AND TENSIONS IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE IN INDIA
A review of Mission, Religion and Caste: Themes in the History of Christianity in India by Shashi Joshi, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 2010.
34. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A review of Social Movements: Issues of Identity and Social Movements II: Concerns of Equity and Security. T.K. Oommen (ed.) New Delhi, Oxford Univ Press, 2010.
35. ORDINARY HUMANS, EXTRAORDINARY INHUMANITY
A review of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence: Naxalites and Hindu Extremists in India by Chitralekha (London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge, Taylor and Francis), 2013.
36. UNDERSTANDINGS OF VIOLENCE
A review of The Weight of Violence: Religion, Language, Politics, Edited by Saitya Brata Das and Soumyabrata Choudhury, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2015,
37. DEMOCRACY AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA
A review of India: Democracy and Violence, Samir Kumar Das, (ed.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2015.
38. REHABILITATING RIOT VICTIMS: WELFARE RELIEF OR CITIZEN RIGHTS
A review of Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State: Gujarat Since 2002, by Sanjeevini, Badigar Lokhande, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2015.
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