Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 407-410, October 2023. Karine E. Peschard. 2022. Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. xxii + 183 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, referen…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 395-398, October 2023. Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 368 pp. Tables, figures, g…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 377-379, October 2023. Mayur Suresh. 2023. Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 253 pp. Notes, references, index, photographs b/w, tables. ₹1,135 (paperb…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 380-382, October 2023. Malini Sur. 2023. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border. New Delhi: Yoda Press. x+215 pp. Notes, bibliography, inde…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 404-407, October 2023. James Uden, ed. 2022. Worlds of Knowledge in Women’s Travel Writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press. viii + 177 pp. Figures. £15….
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 329-355, October 2023. The digitalisation of the state in India and elsewhere has produced a range of effects and critical responses. Arguably, digital processes intervene in the functioning o…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 410-413, October 2023. Chanchal B. Dadlani. 2018. From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press. 232 pp. Notes, select bibliography, …
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 356-376, October 2023. Sweets, especially milk-based sweets, are considered to be a ubiquitous part of Bengali cuisine. In March 2020, amidst the lockdown, the Government of West Bengal design…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 392-395, October 2023. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay. 2022. Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta. Cambridge: Cambridge Unive…
Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 398-401, October 2023. Camillo A. Formigatti (with a foreword by Amartya Sen). 2019. A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library. Oxford: Bodleian Library Pu…