Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 263-264, December 2021. Sameetah Agha, The Limits of Empire, Sub-Imperialism and Pukhtun Resistance in the North–West Frontier (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan), 2020, pp. xiv + 231, ₹595.
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 255-257, December 2021. Ranabir Chakravarti, The Pull Towards the Coast, and Other Essays: The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent before 1500 ce (Delhi: Primus Books), 2020, 326 pp., ₹1,395 (h…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 257-260, December 2021. Manu V. Devadevan, The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2020, 516 + xii pp., ₹850 (pb).
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 182-196, December 2021. Limited attention seems to have been paid in Indian historical work to the Hūṇas (Huns) except for the general assumption that they played a very destructive role in Indian hi…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 264-266, December 2021. Rakesh Batabyal, The Modern School (1920–2020): A Century of Schooling in India (Chennai: Westland Publications), 2020, 411 pp., ₹594, (hb).
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 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…