Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 267-267, December 2021. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. & tr. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Indian reprint of original English ed., London, 1971, now reprint…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 197-207, December 2021. The role of Brāhmaṇa land-grantees in extending cultivation during the early medieval period has been noted by several historians. This study examines the evidence preserved i…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 169-181, December 2021. From a critical review of excavation reports and narratives on the Bronze Age sites, it turns out that archaeological cultures in Indian civilisation are mostly archaeologists…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 253-255, December 2021. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, The Making of Regions in Indian History: Society, State and Identity in Premodern Odisha (New Delhi: Primus Books), 2020, xxvi + 274 pp., ₹931.00 (hb).
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 241-252, December 2021. The article begins with an obscure Bengali poem ‘Lenin’ published in 1924. Tracing the publication and its consequences, it explores the transmission of progressive ideas from…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 260-261, December 2021. Manan Ahmed Asif, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Cambridge, U.S.: Harvard University Press), 2020, Indian ed., HarperCollins Publishers, 2020, 321 pp., ₹599 (h…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 231-240, December 2021. In the vast literature of Bengal famine of 1943, it is hard to offer new insights about that vicious source of mass misery. Local history may mark a significant departure here…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 270-270, December 2021.
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 262-263, December 2021. Ruby Maloni, The Route to European Hegemony: India’s Intra-Asian Trade in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Dist…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 268-269, December 2021. Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages (Gurgaon: Penguin/Viking), 2021, 341 + xvii pp., ₹599 (hb).