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 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).
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 208-214, December 2021. Akbar’s policy of religious toleration from early in his reign (1556–1605) long remained in need of a theoretical justification, especially one from within the framework of Is…
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 266-266, December 2021. Syed Ejaz Hussain & Sanjay Garg (eds.), Alternative Arguments: Essays in Honour of Surendra Gopal (Delhi: Primus Books), 2020, with index, 730 pp., ₹1,995, (hb).
Studies in People’s History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 215-230, December 2021. The article focuses on Dārā Shukoh’s Majma‘-ul-Baḥrain (written, 1654–55), which is basically a comparative and systematic study of modes of Hindu thought and belief from the …