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Book review – Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, by Shashi Tharoor0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- August 10, 2020
by Shashi Tharoor, Scribe Publications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 201, 294 pg, Paperback, $17.95, ISBN: 978-1-9475-3430-8 by Arnold Zeitlin 10 August 2020 Shashi Tharoor is an angry Indian. He is bitter at the British as he outlines their more than two centuries of exploiting Indian resources and people, then departing hastily in 1947 to permit
READ MOREBook review: Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- July 20, 2020
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2019 Paperback, 245 PPS, $28, ISBN: 978 1 5036 0947-1 by Arnold Zeitlin 20 July 2020 Exploring the impact of the crowd on politics, especially in Bangladesh, where crowds are part of everyday life, is a dandy idea. Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury, who comes from Bangladesh and is an assistant
READ MOREBook Review: Allahu Akbar – Revisiting the Great Mughal in Contemporary Times0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- July 17, 2020
Author: Manimugdha Sharma Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today’s India, (New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2019) pp. 305 Hardcover ₹ 397.00 Review by Parvin Sultana 17 July 2020 Much has been written about the third Mughal Emperor of India, Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar. Starting from the commissioned works of court historians like Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari
READ MOREBook review: “Source-force and sheer banditry” in the Himalayan Kingdom: On Greta Rana’s magnum opus, Hostage0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- July 16, 2020
Print Length: 171 pages, Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd (10 August 2018), Language: English Paperback ₹ 220.00, ASIN: B07GFM8SNW Hari Prasad, a boatman living by the banks of the Rapti in the plains of Nepal, is saddled with debts and responsibility for his three children and wife. “Source-force and sheer banditry” in the Himalayan Kingdom:
READ MOREPAKISTAN’S MILITARY SPENDING AND DEFENCE BUDGET 2020-210
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- July 14, 2020
by Sher bano 14 July 2020 Last month the federal government of Pakistan announced its annual budget 2020-21 according to which
READ MOREBook Review: India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- July 12, 2020
Navroz K Dubash, ed. 2019. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0- 19-949873-4, 576 pp, Rs. 1995 (Hardbound) by Dr. Ajmal Khan 12 July 2020 If you think that climate change is only melting of glaciers in the Polar Regions, decreasing number of exotic polar bears, wild fires in Australia or Amazons, sea
READ MOREBook Review: The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence and the Pillage of an Empire0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- July 7, 2020
Bloomsburg Publishing, New York City 2019,Hardcover, 522 pgs, $35, ISBN: 978-1-63557-395-4 by Arnold Zeitlin 7 July 2020 Author William Dalrymple targets the British East India Company for its evil over two centuries in India. In the process, he unmasks a passel of crude, extravagant, feckless, greedy, reprobate rascals — the so-called indigenous rulers over
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Book review: The Argumentative Indian: Writing on Indian History,Culture and Identity, by Amartya Sen0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- July 6, 2020
The Argumentative Indian: Writing on Indian History,Culture and Identity, by Amartya Sen, Farrar, Strass and Giroux, New York, 2005, 409 pp, Hardcover, $6.61 on Amazon, ISBN: 978-0-374-10583-9 by Arnold Zeitlin 6 July 2020 Polymath economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen’s sentiments, written more than two decades ago about the land of his birth
READ MOREBook review: Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- June 30, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1503611986 ISBN-10: 1503611981 by Maria Rashid Stanford University Press, Stanford California, paperback, 267 pgs. $28 by Arnold Zeitlin 30 June 2020 Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army, by Maria Rashid, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, paperback, 267 pgs. $28, ISBN: 978-1-5036-1198-6 Psychologist Maria Rashid has produced
READ MORENot Only in Ladakh, India Losing Ground in Bangladesh Too77
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- June 18, 2020
by Taj Hashmi 18 June 2020 We know things are not going well in regards to India’s relationship with China. On 5th/6th May, China captured around sixty square kilometre of Indian territory in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, which is strategically important to all the three countries in the region, China, India, and Pakistan. On 14th/15th
READ MOREFear of the unknown: Hysteria in Bangladesh3
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- June 17, 2020
by Ajmal Sobhan 17 June 2020 When Minhaz Khan passed away three weeks back in Dhaka, he had been terminally ill for a few years. With advanced Parkinson’s disease, he had been living under the care of a live-in nurse in his own home. He was dependent on the nurse for feeding, bodily functions, and
READ MOREHow Kashmiris tend to look at the Indo-China face-off1
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- June 6, 2020
by M. A. Sofi 6 June 2020 And how the too-sure-of-itself syndrome of India has done it in Let us begin by stating the obvious: in an effort to resolve the ever-burgeoning issues arising from social/political/economic tensions between the people on the one hand, and an attempt at a peaceful settlement of these issues by
READ MOREIndia-Iran Relations and the U.S. Factor0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- May 14, 2020
by Muneeb Yousuf and Tariq Ahmad Lone 14 May 2020 Introduction In the wake of changing regional dynamics, India-Iran relations have occupied greater significance. The relations between India and Iran can be traced back to 1950 when both signed a Treaty of Friendship and Perpetual Peace. However, Iran’s joining of Baghdad pact in 1954 and
READ MOREAn Era of Darkness: Book Review0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- May 10, 2020
by Akmal Hossain 10 May 2020 British, sometimes many writers pronounce it ‘Brutish’ rules in India- today the combination of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, nearly for two hundred years. British East India Company that came here for trading in Indian goods transformed into a ruling class by a tricky conspiracy and bribery. This book exposes
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